Operations Lead

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.


Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose -- to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.


Job summary:


To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Lead located in Salt Lake City, UT.


Reporting to the Production Supervisor, the Lead role involves being responsible for providing leadership and direction to groups of non-exempt employees.


What a typical day looks like:

• Provide feedback to supervisors about employees' performance through formal and informal meetings.

• Coordinate people resource requirements for the department.

• Communicate priority tasks to team daily and lead efforts towards production goals.

• Highlight and investigate material shortages or discrepancies.

• Help alert other departments about planned and unplanned downtime.

• Avoid downtime due to material shortages by ensuring that lines are supplied with sufficient materials.

• Update "pass down" and "down time" communication reports to ensure communication flow with opposite shift.

• Follow quality indicators and help alert others if predefined indicators fall below the target.

• Organize employees' at assigned workstations and rearrange assignments when necessary.

• Identify cause of mass failures and make the necessary adjustments to overcome errors.

• Recognize, monitor, and overcome bottlenecks.

• Motivate and mentor individual employees and small groups of employees.

• Monitor employees' performance and communicate to trainers what additional training is needed.

• Have the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform all job requirements in area of responsibility.

• Be a leader in promoting compliance with 5S+1 and quality assurance practices.

• Be supervisors first point of contact and be able to fill in for supervisor when necessary.

• Ensure that accepted reasonable accommodations are met for employees in area of responsibility.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Successful completion of company required training may be required.

• Must have 1 year of manufacturing experience at Flex or equivalent experience.

• Requires a minimum of 6 certifications at Flex.

• Ability to effectively present information in one on one and small group situations to other employees, and supervisors of the organization.

• Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret complex instructions.

• Must have knowledge of some Microsoft office applications such as excel, word, and power point.

• Ability to speak and understand English.

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables.

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in various forms.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Application Deadline:

Applications for this job position will be accepted for at least five days following the job posting start date below and continuing until the end date below or until the position is filled. This posting may close sooner due to application volume.
Job Posting Start Date 09-28-2026 Job Posting End Date
Job Category
Operations

Relocation: Not eligible

Is Sponsorship Available?
No

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