Production Lead

Production Team Lead

The Production Team Lead will assist the Value Stream Leader in maintaining a safe, structured work environment while driving production throughput. This position will act as a liaison between the production supervisor and line operators, ensuring that procedures are being followed, while also suggesting ideas for streamlining processes.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Implement daily and weekly work week plans and schedules for the department.
• Own everything associated with the day to day line operations.
• Subject matter and product assembly expert for your line.
• Lead and train employees to help ensure efficiency and productivity.
• Perform administrative tasks under the guidance of the Value Stream Leader.
• Bring any employee concerns to the supervisor to ensure company morale.
• Ensure a safe work environment
• Identify/develop leadership qualities in production personnel
• Supports and sustains morning markets to ensure cross departmental communication is happening as efficiently as possible.

• Supports the sustaining of CAIRE's 6S program, by ensuring their work area is clean, organized and meets all safety requirements.

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by management.

Supervisory Responsibility

Will supervise employees on a specific line.

Work Environment

This job is in a full production environment.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance.

Must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this role includes close vision.

Travel

None

Required Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent
• The ability to foster teamwork
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Adherence to and administration of Company procedures and policies.
• Basic math skills (weight measurement, volume, distance, multiplication and division)
• Attention to detail essential
• Strong time management skills
• Performs work under minimal supervision
• Proven ability to identify, reason and problem solve minor non-conformities and deviations
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter.
• Overtime and weekend hours, as needed

Preferred Education and Experience

• 1-2 years of supervisory/leadership experience in a manufacturing environment and 2+ years' experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.
• Experience using blueprints and design sketches
• Awareness of quality standards to include ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

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.

CAIRE is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or membership in any other class protected by federal, state, or local law.