Team Manager - 2nd shift

Highwood USA (Located in Tamaqua and Hazelton, PA) is a part of Premier Outdoor Living, an entrepreneurial manufacturer that produces products for the outdoor living space. POL consists of 3 unique business, Spa cabinets, HDPE Lumber, and Outdoor Furniture.  We operate 3 facilities, 2 in Pennsylvania and 1 in Wisconsin that support the three business. 

This position will be located in Hometown, PA

Position Summary:

Successful Team Managers enjoy the challenges of day to day operations along with providing leadership to hourly team members. Team Managers have the main responsibility of ensuring that the team members have the necessary skills, resources, and tools to achieve the desired goals in the areas of Safety, Quality, Yield, and Productivity. In addition, the Team Manager has the responsibility to help develop High Performance Work Teams through coaching and team development.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

Lead the Team to meet & exceed operational goals

• Be a leader in safety. Know and enforce all safety rules and contribute to the overall safety program through improvements, expectation setting, and role-modeling proper safe behaviors.

• Ensure quality expectations of customers are met. Ensure the team strives for the best quality by helping the team to understand quality expectations. Use and understand SPC and coach team on its use. Drives quality improvements

• Understand the process and help coach the team on good decisions regarding yield. Ensure the team has the proper skills and training to deliver on yield goals

• Coach the team on productivity goals and drive improvements to productivity

• Make sure the team has the resources they need to deliver results. If they do not, work on getting them what they need

Lead Continuous Improvement and High Performance Process

• Committed to making positive change, but remaining flexible and able to adapt

• Excellent communication skills. Must be able to communicate effectively with technicians and the management team.

• Willing to take on a broad range of responsibilities including managing people, processes, and tasks

• Basic understanding of Lean

• Demonstrate ability to multi task and to adapt to a quickly changing manufacturing environment

• Flexible and able to adapt to company growth and evolving responsibilities

• Willing to role model High Performance work team behaviors and develop these on our teams

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Interested in company results

• Treat people with respect

• Commitment to working safely

• Flexibility in working different shift schedules to include occasional weekends.

• MS Office Suite proficient and keyboarding skills

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly supervises up to 15 employees. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and procedures. Trains employees and directs work. Addresses complaints and resolves problems.

Essential Functions

• Committed to making positive change, but remaining flexible and able to adapt

• Excellent communication skills.Must be able to communicate effectively with technicians and the management team.

• Willing to take on a broad range of responsibilities including managing people, processes, and tasks

• Basic understanding of Lean

• Demonstrate ability to multi task and to adapt to a quickly changing manufacturing environment

• Flexible and able to adapt to company growth and evolving responsibilities

• Willing to role model High Performance work team behaviors and develop these on our teams

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Interested in company results

• Treat people with respect

• Commitment to working safely

• Flexibility in working different shift schedules to include occasional weekends.

• MS Office Suite proficient and keyboarding skills

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily as well as the ability to handle situations by working as a team.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

College /technical degree and three to five years related experience

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use his or her hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to accurately compare color and pattern of products to quality control standards. Frequent requirement for attention to detail; prolonged use of a computer terminal, telephones and other electronic equipment. The employee must be able to lift and /or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud and PPE is required. Appropriate hearing protection while in the plant is required as noise levels within the facility meet OSHA requirements for hearing protection equipment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Team Managers typically work between an office environment and the production floor but the purpose of the project may sometimes take them to non-standard workplaces. The noise level in the work environment can be loud.