Team Lead Position

Job Description: Team Lead2nd Shift

Schedule: 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Monday–Friday plus overtime)

List of Activities

1. Responsible for meeting safety, production, productivity, quality and Lean/5s goals for assigned area.
2. Ensure that your team(s) is comfortably and completely trained in all aspects of their job duties.
3. Responsible to be the production expert in your area(s) of responsibility and to fill in where necessary to ensure a smooth running operation.
4. Supports and promotes core values including employee handbook.
5. Responsible for data drive ideas and implementation of ideas/initiatives to improve productivity and quality to achieve a consistent 85 % + OEE.
6. Lead, develop, encourage and hold team members accountable. Be an example in your daily work.
7. Training/Coaching employees within your team, (Safety, Equipment operation and troubleshooting, setup, standard work, lean/5s, productivity, quality and production tracking (paperwork).
8. Update, as requested, Team board with appropriate information.
9. Update and use production tracking tools on shop floor.
10. Ensuring the schedule is followed in every work center to ensure daily/shift targets are met.
11. Team meetings; sharing new information with your team, keeping the team members up to date with current status related to your area. (production/productivity goals and past due, OEE, opportunities for improvement, plant information and other as requested).
12. Collecting all paperwork and verifying it’s accuracy before submitting it to your supervisor.
13. Ensure all members in team and existing equipment is within compliance of all safety requirements.
14. Auditing of the team and the area in which you are managing.
15. Be proactive and advocate for Lean/5s initaitives; Ensure the housekeeping standards are met.
16. Participation in product launches and other strategic tasks.
17. Participation in meetings as required.
18. Actively participate and manage High Performance Work Teams.
19. Work closely with management, engineering, maintenance, quality, and logistics/scheduling.

Measurement of Job Performance

• Productivity of area vs standard and OEE
• Scrap rates / Quality Measure (customer complaints etc)
• Safety Incidents / Audits
• Adherence to Schedule
• Quality / Process improvement as measured by productivity, scrap and downtime
• Accuracy / Complete / Turned in paperwork and/or entered data
• 5s / Lean audits of Team
• Team member feedback
• Supervisor input
• Quality input

Minimum Job RequirementsEducation

• High school diploma or GED

Experience

• Minimum 2 years hands on production/manufacturing experience.

Communication

• Ability to communicate well with others, including management.
• Spoken and written English is required.
• Ability to understand and interpret written English including work instructions.

Math Skills

• Basic math skills.

Problem Solving

• Ability to define problems, understands and can employ formal problem solving techniques to a problem.

Ethics

• Upholds organizational values, including employee handbook.

Dependability

• Can be relied on to follow directions, meet deadlines and communicates road blocks.
• Realizes he “owns” the are and is willing to put in extra hours when required.

Organizational Skills

• Organizes work and administrative tasks for efficiency.
• Prioritizes.
• Finishes.
• Lives organization.

Attendance and Punctuality

• Is consistently at work and on time.