Communication Skills, Continuous Improvement, Corporate Communications, Corporate Policies, Cost Control, Cross-Functional, High School Diploma, Leadership, Manufacturing Assembly, Microsoft Word, Organizational Skills, Production Control, Production Costing, Production Systems, Quality Control, Quality Management, SAP, Safety/Work Safety, Staff Training, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Support, Technical Training, Time Management
Job Description Summary
Job Description
As a Production Team Leader, you will be responsible for engaging employees in the functions of production, coordinating activities in expediting the flow of material, parts, and assemblies between areas of production.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities :
As the Production Team Leader, you will:
- Manage the assigned area ensuring that safety, quality, production, cost control and & continuous improvement objectives are met while providing technical support and training to employees working in the assigned production areas.
- Oversee and implement Lean initiatives in the responsible areas.
- Conduct production meetings and one-on-one conversations to effectively communicate company policies, objectives, and performance feedback to the workforce in assigned areas.
- Facilitates cost-effective use of overtime
- Deliver on-time completion of product produced in the assigned assembly areas
- Ensure that all material used in the assembly of a job is appropriately charged to the correct job
- Foster and build strong relationships within workforce in assigned area
- Maintains a clean and well-organized work area at all times.
- Oversees quality inspection of the product before is released to the next department.
- Reviews daily shortage reports and provides feedback to the supervisor on potential upcoming parts shortages
- Fills in for production as needed in assembly process
- Provides cross functionality & helps handling the other product coordinator's tasks
- Communicating weekly reviews with the supervisor
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications/Requirements :
- GED or High School Diploma with a minimum of three (3) years of machine operating experience a/o assembly in a manufacturing or production environment
Desired Characteristics :
- Previous leadership/supervisor experience
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Product Knowledge
- Self-motivated to produce high quality results
- Proficiency with MS Word, email and SAP.