Melt Team Leader- Nights

Summary

The Production Team Leader is responsible for ensuring employees are working safely while production and quality requirements are met within their respective department.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures employees receive training and understand all safety requirements and procedures related to their work. Enforces personal protective equipment requirements
• Departmental daily safety spot check
• Guides and manages team to ensure KPI’s and other performance metrics are met
• Understands the scope, impacts and intricacies of the on-shift production process
• Communicates clearly and effectively across all levels of the organization
• Fosters and develops a culture of safety, quality, teamwork, accountability and respect
• Employs strong leadership skills in management of team
• Coaches, trains and develops team
• Clearly communicates expectations and ensures thorough onboarding of new employees, including ensuring an understanding of safe operating procedures
• Ensures team’s compliance with safety guidelines, company standards and production goals
• Makes a working contribution to team’s success and holds the team accountable to meet KPI’s and other objectives in a timely manner
• Continuously identifies opportunities for improvement through assessment of team’s control point process, variables, equipment, resources, efficiencies, methods, challenges and strengths
• Gathers, sorts, analyzes and filters shift data and compiles reports based on results
• Ensures operational efficiencies are met, coordinates preventative maintenance and repairs in conjunction with maintenance according to production plan, addresses concerns quickly and continuously evaluates equipment and processes
• Manages a safe and clean work environment
• Educates and directs team members on the use of control points, equipment and resources, ensuring compliance
• Thinks critically and utilizes various problem solving, leadership and analytics methods to address challenges
• Works closely with Supervisor, EHS, HR, Quality and others to ensure all parties are informed and in compliance and reports incidents or accidents immediately
• Uses software systems to manage team’s schedules, hours, performance and disciplinary actions, create reports and perform safety and layered process audits

Skills and Experience

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• 2-3 years of experience in manufacturing leadership, coaching, development and/or training role
• Knowledge, management, and improvement of automotive production and/or quality process
• Production planning, MSP, reporting
• Application of control plan, controls administration, operational efficiencies
• Ability to follow instructions, delegate and interpret and enforce policies and procedures.
• Familiarity with ADP, Attendance Counts, DMS, Beacon, Microsoft Suite, and Outlook

Organizational Culture

• Work safely and follow rules and guidelines for safe work
• Reporting to work on time and with a positive attitude
• Responsible for staying focused on tasks at hand
• Being responsible for work performance and completing tasks throughout the day
• Maintains a good working relationship with co-workers
• Support a positive and steady workflow through the company
• Works with a sense of urgency when needed
• Support, coach or mentor co-workers when needed
• Positively support change throughout the company

Physical Work Conditions

• Must be able to work in a hot environment
• Must be able to lift varying weights
• Must be able to stand and walk for up to 12 hours per day
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment when required
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.