Department Team Lead - Nitinol Fine Wire

At Fort Wayne Metals, we specialize in producing top-quality wires, cables, and assemblies designed to enhance and safeguard lives. Our products are used in everything from our customers’ stents and surgical robots to aircraft and automobiles. At our essence, we are thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers, leveraging our knowledge of materials to create customized solutions for our customers.

Join us in our dedication to making a tangible impact through our advanced materials and superior products.

Education & Experience Requirements

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• 3- 5 years’ relevant experience
• Supervisory experience preferred.

Job Responsibilities

• Help create and maintain an effective team environment.
• Communicate responsibilities, job assignments and prioritizations to employees to maintain department efficiency.
• Coordinate and participate in team meetings in order to share information and expectations.
• Ensure standard safety and environmental procedures and practices are followed and help maintain the safe work environment, including 5S audits.
• Edit and keep training scripts and work instruction revisions up to date.
• Coordinate/manage departmental vacation schedules
• Create and maintain a continuous improvement culture from within FWM. Engage and drive employees to participate in continuous improvement initiatives.
• May participate in wire drawing; help maintain quality and on-time delivery.
• Assure that material flow of department is sufficient.
• Collaborate with Area Supervisor to meet departmental needs.
• Monitor the training and performance of all employees to ensure employees are competent in performing their jobs.
• Conduct evaluations and address performance deficiencies and initiate corrective action.
• Perform other duties as requested by management.

Skills Needed

• Ability to perform basic computer functions.
• Possess intermediate math, reading, and writing skills.
• Mechanical aptitude, preferred.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Good hand dexterity.
• Understand and apply safe work practices

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

• Minimal travel necessary.
• Work hours consist of 40-50 hours per week.
• Fast paced production environment.
• May work with and around hazardous chemicals.
• Appropriate PPE must be worn where posted and required.
• Exposure to fluctuating temperatures may occur.
• Apply safe work practices
• Minimal time spent working at desk.
• Average weights in production range from 10-25 lbs. Maximum weights may exceed 75-80 lbs. on occasion.
• May be required to perform work above shoulder height.
• Frequent bending, twisting, lifting and squatting.

Benefits & Wellness Resources

The health and wellbeing of Fort Wayne Metals is a critical part of our culture. In addition to offering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options to suit your needs, we’d like to share some of the other fundamental resources that make Fort Wayne Metals a premier place to work:

Physical Wellness

• Parkview Wellness Coach
  • Ready to assist with your physical and nutritional wellness needs.
• Gym Facilities
  • 4 onsite gym locations as well as discounts for regional gym facilities
• Health Challenges
  • From pickleball tournaments, sponsored races and sports leagues, to participating in the YMCA’s Corporate Challenge, we have a variety of fun ways to stay active.

Mental Wellness

• When You Need to Talk
  • 5 sessions of counseling are available to you and all members of your immediate household at no cost.
• Relaxing Time-Off
  • Qualify for Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay on your first day of employment.

Social Wellness

• Epic Events
  • From TinCaps Night to family days at the zoo, we offer multiple activities throughout the year for employees and their families.
• Employee Resource Group
  • A voluntary, employee-led group formed to bring employees together and centered around a common interest or identity.

Professional Wellness

• Grow Your Career
  • We offer many opportunities to continue your development and growth.
• Performance Feedback
  • Receive regular and constructive feedback from your manager and peers to help you grow and improve.

Financial Wellness

• Annual Profit Sharing & 401k matching
  • Dropping dollars into your 401k. When you contribute 7%, we’ll contribute 3.5%.
• Quarterly Bonus
  • When we perform well, everyone benefits! Receive discretionary bonuses each quarter based on company performance.
• Tuition Reimbursement
  • Getting your first degree? Great! Whatever your major, we’ll help pick up the tab!
• Your Money Line
  • Employer-provided 1:1 financial guidance, education, & tools – so you can stress less about money and enjoy greater stability & confidence.