Fine Machine Team Leader- A Shift

Summary

The Production Team Leader is responsible for ensuring employees are working safely while production and quality requirements are met within their respective departments.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures employees receive training and understand all safety requirements and procedures related to their work. Enforces personal protective equipment requirements.

• Departmental daily safety spot check

• Guides and manages team to ensure KPI's and other performance metrics are met.


• Understands the scope, impacts and intricacies of the on-shift production process.

• Communicates clearly and effectively across all levels of the organization

• Fosters and develops a culture of safety, quality, teamwork, accountability, and respect.

• Employs strong leadership skills in management of team

• Coaches, trains, and develops teams.


• Clearly communicates expectations and ensures thorough onboarding of new employees, including ensuring an understanding of safe operating procedures

• Ensures team's compliance with safety guidelines, company standards and production goals

• Makes a working contribution to team's success and holds the team accountable to meet KPI's and other objectives in a timely manner


• Continuously identifies opportunities for improvement through assessment of team's control point process, variables, equipment, resources, efficiencies, methods, challenges, and strengths.


• Gathers, sorts, analyzes and filters shift data and compiles reports based on results.

• Ensures operational efficiencies are met, coordinates preventative maintenance and repairs in conjunction with maintenance according to production plan, addresses concerns quickly and continuously evaluates equipment and processes.

• Manages a safe and clean work environment

• Educates and directs team members on the use of control points, equipment, and resources, ensuring compliance.

• Thinks critically and utilizes various problem solving, leadership and analytics methods to address challenges

• Works closely with Supervisor, EHS, HR, Quality, and others to ensure all parties are informed and in compliance and reports incidents or accidents immediately.


• Uses software systems to manage team's schedules, hours, performance, and disciplinary actions, create reports and perform safety and layered process audits.

Skills and Experience

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent


• Outstanding written and oral communication skills


• 2-3 years of experience in manufacturing leadership, coaching, development and/or training role

• Knowledge, management, and improvement of automotive production and/or quality process

• Production planning, MSP, reporting

• Application of control plan, controls administration, operational efficiencies


• Ability to follow instructions, delegate and interpret and enforce policies and procedures.

• Familiarity with ADP, Attendance Counts, DMS, Beacon, Microsoft Suite, and Outlook


Organizational Culture

• Work safely and follow rules and guidelines for safe work

• Reporting to work on time and with a positive attitude

• Responsible for staying focused on tasks at hand

• Being responsible for work performance and completing tasks throughout the day

• Maintains a good working relationship with co-workers

• Support a positive and steady workflow through the company

• Works with a sense of urgency when needed

• Support, coach or mentor co-workers when needed.

• Positively support change throughout the company

Physical Work Conditions

• Must be able to work in a hot environment.

• Must be able to lift varying weights

• Must be able to push or pull carts of wheels.

• Must be able to stand and walk for up to 12 hours per day.

• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment when required.

*Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.