Team Leader

ABB Production Supervisor

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This position reports to: Production Supervisor

Job Description Summary

Supervises shift team's progress against work plans as defined by Production management to ensure the proper use of machinery, equipment, and assembly lines within a production area. Cooperates with the unit supervisor to create an effective work environment and reinforce production schedules and quality.

Roles & Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities:

• Provides regular feedback and makes recommendations to management regarding issues within the production line, including production line organization, shifting priorities, and possible critical situations.
• Helps management implement staff movements in case of vacations, illnesses, machine outages, or shifting priorities.
• Reinforces focus on volume, efficiency, and on-time delivery.
• Assists management and shift team in allocating, coordinating, and overseeing shift orders and work plan execution within production lines during the shift.
• Serves as a leader during shifts to oversee cooperation and the resolution of technical/quality problems and logistic issues.

License to Operate / Core Values:

• Ensures all staff (under scope) understand ABB's core values and group safety and integrity standards and act accordingly.
• Implements and ensures compliance with the ABB code of conduct, global and local standards, tools, policies, and processes in their assigned area.
• Ensures adherence to all internal and statutory regulations and policies pertaining to the teams in scope.
• Ensures integrity and compliance with ABB values and ethics in all activities across all teams in scope.
• Accountable for the health and safety of all employees and contractors for the teams in scope, and continuous improvement in Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) processes and integrity performance.

Collaboration / Leadership:

• Promotes and enables collaboration in the division, across divisions, business areas, and teams to maximize results for ABB.
• Provides guidance to the teams and seeks knowledge for their own development and coaching/mentoring of the teams.
• Manages relationships with stakeholders in their own area of responsibility and ensures alignment.
• Ensures that their own area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled, and directed.
• Inspires, guides, motivates, and develops direct and indirect reports within HR policies.
• Builds effective, competent, and high-performing teams.
• Reviews organizational effectiveness and performs competence assessments and continuous skill upgrades.

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