Lear Gratiot Team Member

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STARTING RATE – 18.00/hour

Job Statement: As a member of the Operations team, the Team Member will be responsible for performing all jobs in the work cell to build quality seats in an efficient manner. As a Team Member, you support department and plant goals as established, participate in continuous improvement activities and the high performing work team model.

Essential Job Functions:

People:

• Ensure that all quality, safety, and productivity standards are maintained
• Report all accidents and near misses to the appropriate team leader
• Identify safety improvement opportunities and generate safety resolutions throughout the workplace
• Ensure that Team Members are reliable, do their best, and are always striving to deliver high-quality products to our customers
  
  

Quality:

• Drive Lear’s 5S World Class Housekeeping standards and ensure Team Members are held accountable to each standard
• Identify scrap, defects, or quality issues as they appear throughout production
• Operate quickly to resolve quality problems, and consistently review quality alerts and metrics
• Ability to read Liaison reports to make improvements and corrections
• Efficiently and effectively complete product repairs across the production station
• Participate, suggest process improvements, and communicate Standard Work Instruction (SWI) changes and updates
  
  

Process:

• Perform all fast-paced automotive assembly duties and achieve high-quality standards
• Assure that all safety, quality, production, and work standards are regularly followed
• Drive, contribute, and fully support continuous improvement suggestions and projects
• Adhere to the production lines’ key performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Inspect equipment, tools, structures, or materials to identify repair needs or other defects
• Ability to rotate and achieve each task within a Team’s cell by learning their responsibilities
• Maintain or exceed line efficiency targets to ensure customer delivery is achieved
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• HS Diploma or GED
• Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving whole body
• Must be able to work any shift, as well as Saturdays and Sundays
• Must be available to work overtime as required
• Once hired, must pass a background check, physical demands test, drug screen, and pre-employment assessment
• Physical ability to lift, carry, and/or move objects up to 50 pounds
• Physical ability to stand for 3 hours at a time and operate pneumatic tools
• Physical ability to make fast, simple repetitive movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists