2nd Shift Frontline Leader - Production

2nd Shift Frontline Leader, Production

At Hypertherm Associates, we design and manufacture world-leading industrial cutting solutions that help our customers build a better world. As a 100% Associate-owned company, we believe our success starts with our people and is strengthened by a culture built on care, trust, teamwork, and commitment . We're looking experienced leaders who are passionate about developing others, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement, and empowering teams to do their best work every day. Join us as a 2nd Shift Frontline Leader and become part of an organization where you'll make a meaningful impact while helping Associates grow, succeed, and deliver innovative solutions to customers around the globe.

Key Responsi bilities:

People Leadership

• Provide leadership for your direct team, including associate selection, training, coaching, development, conflict resolution, planning, performance management/accountability, and recognition. Work with Associate's to identify development plans for their continued growth.

• Foster a positive climate and safe working environment promoting associate well-being and team effectiveness across the organization and Hypertherm for improved business results.

• Provide support and coaching to team members ensuring associates are following standard work. Plan and schedule for training needs and follow up and ensure that training is successful.
  
  

Continuous Improvement: Promote team participation in continuous improvement activities and helping to implement these ideas

Safety: Foster a culture of safety by completing safety incident reports, holding others accountable to safety protocols, and providing mentorship to safety champions

Quality: Support a quality culture and established quality standards. Understand the Red Tag process, quarantine process, and participating in root cause analysis.

Capacity and Planning: Work with scheduling associates to inform planning decisions, accounting for downtime, and weekly staffing decisions. Respond to expedites and communicate with Logistics to monitor system performance. Proactively alert manufacturing leadership of potential material. labor, or machine capacity shortages.

Communication: Ensure others are informed of day-to-day operations, delivery metrics, customer demands, or obstacles/challenges to minimize downtime and production runs effectively and efficiently on all three shifts.

Required knowledge, skills, education, and experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent with a minimum of 3 years of formal leadership experience

• Demonstrated experience with performance management

• A dedicated interest in mentoring and developing team members

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Demonstrated team effectiveness with strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to promote a collaborative team environment focused on teamwork, safety, quality, and continuous improvement

• Basic presentation skills

• Ability to lift 50 lbs.

• Willingness to perform other production responsibilities as necessary (ex. secondary assembly tasks as needed)
  
  

Preferred Experience that differentiates you:

• Associates Degree or higher in related field

• 3+ years of experience working in a manufacturing environment

• Leadership experience in a Lean manufacturing environment

• Experience with project management

Location: Hanover, NH and Lebanon, NH

Additional benefits in joining Hypertherm Associates:

• Collaborative, 100% employee-owned culture
• Profit-Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP)
• Five days/year paid Community Service Time
• Strong commitment to Environmental Stewardship
• Stable, growing organization with a no-layoff philosophy lasting over 50 years

Sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.

Hypertherm Associates is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome all applications. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

At Hypertherm Associates, we are committed to building an inclusive diverse, flexible, and collaborative environment. If our mission resonates with you, but you don’t meet all posted requirements, we encourage you to still apply. We will evaluate your application materials and may suggest alternative roles that better leverage your strengths and talents. For positions with multiple levels, we will evaluate your prior experience to determine the level within our organization you are best aligned based upon the job applying.

CURRENT ASSOCIATES OR TEMPORARY ASSOCIATES: Please apply via your internal Workday career account.

This is the base pay range that an applicant can expect to make upon hire.

Pay within this range will vary based upon relevant experience, skills, and education among other factors.