Team Leader - Hybrid (Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 6:30 pm)

Production Team Lead

KCC Companies is an employee-owned (ESOP) company dedicated to providing complete design, manufacturing, installation, and service for commercial and residential Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC). Our mission is to enhance the lives of our customers, partners, employee-owners, and communities by providing innovative HVAC solutions.

Benefits: We now offer: DailyPay! "Work Today, Get Paid Today!" Nine paid holidays, quarterly bonuses, quarterly rate increase, health, dental, vision insurance, and other ancillary coverages, 401K, monthly accrued vacation, employee assistance program, employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), safety shoe voucher program.

Summary: Includes but not limited to the scheduling and coordinating of production personnel to meet the schedule, safety, and quality requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Teach, encourage, and enforce KCC Safety Regulations.
• Make sure team members have proper training to work safely and produce quality products that meet or exceed our customers' expectations.
• Inspect all finished materials/products to verify quality standards are met.
• Inspect purchase materials and equipment to find non-conforming materials and defects.
• Ensure equipment and PPE is calibrated and up to date according to the planned maintenance schedule.
• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
• Order materials as required to maintain work cell/station.
• Keep records of employees' attendance and hours worked.
• Communicate updates to the schedule, safety concerns, near misses or incidents, defective equipment, to supervisor.
• Record operational or production data.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Must have a working knowledge of common hand tools.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing production effectiveness.
• Knowledge of leadership techniques, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Ability to use critical thinking to make adjustments when necessary.
• The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Capable of encouraging continuous improvement.
• Must be capable of using common measuring equipment and other tools necessary used by refrigeration technicians.

Safety/Physical Requirements:

• Gain knowledge of applicable health and safety legislation as well as plant safety rules to perform duties safely and in compliance with all KCC rules and regulations.
• Participate in toolbox talks & monthly training.
• Take every reasonable precaution for the protection of your coworkers.
• Take immediate action to address unsafe acts or conditions and report issues to management.
• Assist in accident investigations (as needed) to identify the root cause in a timely manner.
• Complete accident and incident reports (near miss) in a timely manner.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs.
• Requires bending, stooping, and standing.
• Must be able to stand from six (6) to eight (8) hours per day. (Overtime may extend time period.)
• Good visual and spatial perception.
• Follow established safety policies including, but not limited to, mobile equipment, PPE, emergency response, HAZCOM, first-aid response, etc.

KCC COMPANIES IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER