Team Lead 3rd Shift

Location: Largo, FL
Job Type: Full-Time | 3rd Shift
Compensation: $25.76/hour + Shift differential + Benefits + Overtime opportunities

What you will do

You will provide direction regarding processes, procedures, and information while being accountable for the team’s overall departmental safety, quality, productivity, performance, customer service, and process improvements. You will work closely with other departments and management to ensure daily objectives are met with assigned team of associates.

How you will do it

• Champion a Safety Culture using Johnson Controls (JCI) tools and best practices and participation in JCI programs and committees empower employees to take responsibility for their own safety as well as the safety of others. Safety Awareness - Relevant knowledge to train new employees or existing employees on the proper processes/equipment in the department. Knowledge of JSA’s, PPE usage, 5S, and all safety regulations in the facility.
• Drive Improvements to Metrics. Monitor departmental activities and ensure requirements are met in regard to: Safety, Quality, On-Time Delivery, Customer Service, Production Cost, and Inventory Management. Monitor scrap rates, productivity, on-time delivery, and standard hours. Work with the Quality department to resolve Customer Complaints and any supplier issues.
• Work with other departments and management to determine daily work assignments to meet customer requirements. Adjust priorities as needed to respond to customers’ needs in a timely manner. Assign daily job task to team members and defines realistic daily objectives while being sensitive to time constraints and resource availability. Ability to manage bottlenecks in a process to improve workflow, reduce work-in-process, and manage capacity.
• Continuous Improvement. Ability to manage time and deliver results. Able to develop unique and novel solutions to problems; use intuition and a new way of thinking to create a positive approach with opportunities for enhancement. Ability to resolve production issues resulting in true root cause analysis. Firmness to drive changes in processes and to provide facts supporting procedural processes with engineering team understanding value-add versus non-value add activities and improve the ratio.
• A floor Champion who coaches and builds teamwork among peers. Ability to build high morale while delivering on team commitments to established goals and objectives. Display professionalism in the workplace, able to perform duties during times of stress and pressure. Develop and maintain a team-oriented workgroup. Foster a sense of pride, quality, and team synergy within the facility. Communicate goals to team members on the manufacturing floor. Provide positive reinforcement to outside departments ensuring cohesiveness toward facility objectives. Ability to escalate personnel issues, engaging Human Resources in a timely manner.
• Flexibility. Availability to work overtime and/or move between shifts for training and/or coverage purposes to support production as needed. Comfortable conducting meetings with team members with a sense of urgency to meet expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to use computer utilizing software such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and ERP systems. Relevant knowledge to look up production orders, key parts into inventory, and use the system as a tool to assist in production.
• Perform material handling, set-up, and other departmental serving duties as required.
• Perform other assignments as directed by management.

What You Bring

Required:

• High school diploma/GED and completion of a craft apprenticeship, or an equivalent number of years of education and 2 years of experience
• Previous experience in manufacturing or industrial setting
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to lead change in a team environment. Ability to build effective teams; creative thinker. Collaborative style as well as the ability to work cross-functionally. Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to deal with ambiguity as well as make effective decisions. Ability to balance multiple priorities/activities; results-driven in a high paced environment. Must have problem solving skills and be able to generate unique alternative solutions
• Knowledge of or ability to quickly learn organization’s structure, policy culture, resources, and information sources
• Ability to train new employees
• Ability to read, communicate and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals in the English Language
• Physically able to lift up to 50 lbs, stand for long periods, and work in a non-climate-controlled environment
• Comfortable with repetitive tasks in a noisy and dusty setting

Preferred:

• Training and/or supervisory experience

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to work in a noisy, dusty, industrial/manufacturing environment, and exposed to non-toxic fumes, chemicals, grease and oils
• Ability to work with machinery and moving parts
• Ability to operate crane, truck, motor vehicles
• Ability to work with moving vehicles, ladders, and scaffolding
• Ability to work at heights, and in confined spaces
• Ability to properly lift/carry/push/pull/manipulate/transport up to 30 lbs
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs, and frequently lift up to 40 lbs
• Ability to work in a non-climate controlled environment
• Ability to work in repetitive motions and pressure involving fingers, hands, and wrists
• The work requires some physical exertion such as long periods of standing or walking over hard concrete surface
• Exposure to recurring bending, crouching, stooping, kneeling, sitting, climbing, stretching, or similar activities
• Ability to reach at high levels
• Ability to read, write, speak and communicate in the English Language
• Must have the physical strength and ability to frequently work more than 40 hours weekly

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• On-the-job training and cross-training opportunities
• A collaborative, safety-first culture with a Zero Harm policy
• Opportunities for career growth and development

HIRING HOURLY RANGE : $25.76 (Hourly rate to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, location and alignment with market data.) This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at

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