Production Team Lead - 1st shift SMT

Description

Team Lead (SMT)

Essential Job Functions

• Demonstrates SoundOff Signal’s Core Values in daily interactions with internal and external customers
• Team Building:
• Demonstrated abilities of active listening, effective speaking, future thinking and the mentoring towards our one team approach.
• Management of Personnel Resources through motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and identifying the best people for the job.
• Able to recognize every team members contributions and encourages them to work together as a team.
• Develop a team environment by aligning talents and providing the members with the tools to be successful.

Planning:

• Assess daily department requirements, capacity, and capability.
• Schedule daily work assignments.

Organizing:

• Coordinate fulfillment of customer requirements with excellence and accuracy, including management of order changes and exceptions.
• The ability to multi-task effectively as needed.

Communication:

• Able to communicate well (written, verbal)
• Able to strategically delegate tasks to team members as needed.
• Able to read, follow and train team members to follow SoundOff Signal Work Instructions.
• The ability to work as a linking pin between production team members and the management team.

Leadership:

• Able to coach and lead employees by example to meet department goals.
• Able to quickly but calmly handle urgent situations with due diligence and reasonable care.
• Mechanical aptitude including troubleshooting ability with department equipment.
• Balancing hands on involvement with background support functions to maximize department throughput capacity.
• Disciplinary activities within department when required.
• Able to keep the team focused and motivate the team towards its goal.

Measure:

• Problem Sensitivity and Solving. Being able to tell when something is wrong, or about to go wrong, then use critical thinking and deductive reasoning to identify problems, gather and analyze data, construct, evaluate, and implement solutions.
• Able to report department progress, completion, non-completion of work and the reasons for each.
• Able to measure the performance of employees to understand where their need is to grow, learn and comply with SoundOff Signal Standards.

Quality:

• Ensures the products manufactured meet our SoundOff Signal quality standards.
• Able to check finished product as needed to ensure quality standards are being met and keep records of equipment, deliveries and worker performance.
• Assuring quality control procedures (ISO, ESD) are being followed.

Safety:

• Place the safety of team members in high esteem, educate them in SoundOff Signal safety procedures and ensure procedures are adhered to.
• Assuring team members are aware of all needed PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and are following all PPE requirements.
• Able to evaluate manufacturing equipment for safety and functionality.

• Ability to work minimum 10 hour shifts, and flex hours early or late with little or no notice.
• Ability to hold the department and team members to our SoundOff Signal 5S standards.
• Able to perform job consistently and without excessive absenteeism or tardiness.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• High School Diploma required. Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Competent in all processes within the department.
• Willing and able to train others in all department processes
• Two (2) to four (4) years electronics experience.
• One (1) year supervisory experience.

Physical Requirements

• Able to lift up to 35 lbs.
• Able to stand, sit, walk, bend, twist, rotate, and/or reach throughout an entire shift.
• Must be able to accurately handle and assemble small parts.

Working Conditions

• Light manufacturing environment
• Fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Low noise level in a temperature-controlled setting
• Required to work shift hours (four 10-hour days) with occasional overtime

Schedule

• Monday-Thursday, 5:00am-3:00pm with occasional overtime on Fridays