PRODUCTION TEAM LEADER – NIGHTS

Position Summary:
Responsible for meeting plant targets for safety, quality, efficiency and cost reduction. 

Essential Job Functions:

• Leads a production team emphasizing teamwork, safety, training and discipline.
• Assist in the development of standardized work procedures by designing and/or documenting the best work sequence for each process.
• Promote safety, quality, productivity and cost improvement projects.
• Assist in maintaining training matrix, assuring training is effective and correcting substandard performance.
• Work with team to improve standardized processes/methods, identify waste, methodically eliminate waste and standardize the new process/methods.
• Train new team members by breaking down standardized work and being a resource for assistance until job is mastered.
• Shows positive supervisory skills by actively nurturing staff and leading by example.
• Be proactive in predicting abnormalities and finding innovative solutions to correct
• Direct and facilitate quality improvement activities as coach or mentor to the team members
• Perform production readiness confirmation and post shift checks
• Use key performance indicators as a method of continuous improvement.
• Daily production performance tracking
• Coordinates communications between shifts
• Develops employee relations centered on trust and teamwork
• Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office products such as Excel and Word.
• Strong organization and planning skills required

Education and/or Experience

• Associates degree in Management or related Manufacturing field; or equivalent 3 years of experience in production/manufacturing environment leadership
EOE