General Assembly Team Lead

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger's best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Job Overview

As a Harbinger -Team Lead, you will be responsible for guiding a team toward achieving operational goals while fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment. You will serve as the primary point of contact for team members for your dedicated zone and provide the necessary support to ensure zonal goals are met.

What You'll Do:

• Team Leadership: Direct daily activities, provide clear goals (SQDC) and regular feedback to team members to ensure alignment with company objectives as communicated by the Supervisor/Manager.
• Resource Allocation: Oversee zonal allocation, ensure you have proper people allocations in each work station as needed and escalate any gaps to the Supervisor. Support down to the build operator level as needed based on resource availability.
• Mentorship and Development: Support the Supervisor on Identifying training needs and provide coaching to support the professional growth and skill development of each team member.
• Performance Monitoring: Track team performance against key metrics and implement strategies for continuous improvement.
• Communication: Act as a liaison between the team and management, ensuring transparent communication regarding progress, challenges, and achievements of your allocated area.
• Continuous Improvement Culture: View the production line as a living system; one that requires awareness, iteration, and effort to improve and drive improvements over time.
• Understand the product and production fundamentals (Takt, operator and equipment cycle time, Downtime tracking, escalation, safety and quality issue escalation protocol, waste elimination and continuous Improvement)
• Meet your zonal objectives as set forth by Area leadership:
  • Run 5 mins Start of shift huddle (output, goals, safety issues, 5S).
  • Respond and Escalate issues per criticality to the supervisor immediately.
  • Maintain the 5S-Safety at the highest standard in your zone and in the General Assembly area.

Who You Are:

• High school diploma or higher.
• 2+ years of experience in a relevant field (General Assembly/EV preferred)
• Driven Individual with good understanding of vehicle assembly and ability to learn and train operations team in multiple build stations and cells.
• Proven leadership or prior team lead/supervisory experience (preferably 1+ years)
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Record of repeated strong performance and positive peer feedback.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

California Pay Range

$31-$34 USD

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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