Group Leader

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers.
• Recommend measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
• Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.
• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, and maintenance to detect production problems.
• Hire, train, evaluate, and discharge staff, and resolve personal grievances.
• Prepare and maintain production reports and personnel records.
• Participate in the training, developing and evaluating of hourly team members
• Participate in the development of highly effective teams
• Lead Global Manufacturing Systems processes and serves as resource supporting launch and pilot activities in assigned areas
• Meet or exceed production cost schedule and maintains quality requirements
• Maintain awareness of quality standards, and communicates department quality goals, and leverages resources to solve quality issues
• Build and maintains good working relationships with employees, union and management
• Understand and consistently administer the National and Local Agreements between the company and the union workers
• Implement and follows systems that prevent reoccurrence of known issues
• Promote safe work practices and achieve objectives for ergonomics, health and safety and housekeeping
• Motivate, train and develop employees to effectively perform their jobs utilizing standardized methods. Ensure team members receive adequate JIT (job instruction training)
• Achieve production schedules and product requirements by applying lean manufacturing/synchronous principles with emphasis on variation reduction, control costs, and achieve productivity improvementsCoach, teach, counsel and mentor Group Leaders in these responsibilities

• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage one's time.