Transformer Team Lead - 1st Shift

Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Transformer Team Lead - 1st Shift in Richmond, VA.

The hourly rate for this position is $29.90.

Core hours are 7:00am-3:30pm.

Some Of The Outstanding Benefits Eaton Offers

• Health benefits and vacation time
• Paid holidays
• Weekly Pay
• Career progression opportunities to cross-train in different departments
• Overtime opportunities
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Parental Leave
• Educational Assistance Program, Wellness Reimbursement, and more!
  
  
  

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You’ll Do

Eaton’s Electrical Sector is currently seeking an Transformer Team Lead to join our First shift team. This position is based at our Richmond, VA facility.

Position Overview

The Production Lead-Transformer position is focused on building Transformer sub-assemblies and assemblies to customer specifications using mechanical or power hand tools, machines, gauges, soldering and brazing equipment. In addition to day-to-day operations, the role is responsible for ensuring department meets operational goals around safety, quality, productivity, and on time delivery.

Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.

In This Function You Will

• Follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to build sub-assemblies and assemblies
• Use heavy industrial equipment, including cranes, winding machines, fabrication, welding and brazing equipment
• Be responsible for visual inspections of material before and after assembly
• Use various fixtures, gauges, hand tools and power tools to assemble, adjust, or repair product
• Inspect completed assemblies to ensure compliance with quality standards and making necessary adjustments when required in order to meet quality goals
• Provide process and safety improvement ideas
• Ensure machines and tools are properly calibrated and perform housekeeping duties as necessary using the principles of 5S and participate in periodic 5S audits of various operations
• Use available reports and monitor the progress of projects on the production floor to ensure on time delivery to the customer expectations
• Provide feedback to management on the matters that impede the progress of management’s objectives of providing a harmonious, safe and productive work environment
• Comply with and ensure department compliance with all company guidelines, including health, safety, environment, attendance and punctuality
• Communicate shift status to Production Management as well as opposite shift lead
• Support continuous improvement of assigned area(s) including maintaining visual management board
  
  
  

When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent or GED
  
  
  

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without out company sponsorship, now or in the future.

No relocation is being offered for this role.  All candidates considered must live within 50 miles of the Richmond, VA location.  Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years experience in a manufacturing environment preferred
• Previous supervisory experience preferred
• Lean 6S [5S Safety] experience preferred
  
  
  

Skills

Position Criteria:

• Ability to solve complex practical problems
• Must be able to simultaneously manage several objectives, and reassign priorities
• Ability to deal with a wide variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines
• Individual may be required to sit, stand and walk regularly
• Individual must be able to lift up to 50 pounds on occasion.
• Individual may be required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, reach, push and/or pull.
  
  
  

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.

You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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