Production Lead

Production Team Lead

Summary

The Production Team Lead role is responsible for ensuring production assembly cell is actively engaged to meet daily customer demand and production schedule. The Production Team Lead provides directions to the fabrication cell and ensures safety, quality and delivery standards are always maintained. The Production Team Lead will fabricate products by using a variety of tools, fixtures, work instructions and test equipment to perform a series of operations to correctly fabricate industrial belting products.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with other teams leads to managing and prioritizing staffing assignments to ensure customer demand and the production schedule are met
• Coordinate employee training to ensure that procedures are followed and meet all quality requirements
• Use basic problem-solving skills to ensure stable operation of the work cell
• Report on problems or concerns with quality, processes, equipment, materials and labor to the Operations Manager
• Work closely with support staff such as Technicians, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations Management, Planning & Warehouse to resolve issues
• Understand and enforce company policies and procedures and work with manager to administer
• Participate in daily management meeting
• Lead daily stand-up meeting with team
• Observe, maintain, coordinate and complete standard work
• Update production metrics and facilitate regular team communication
• Identify and support continuous improvement efforts
• Sustain and drive lean manufacturing and 5S activities
• Participate as an active member of the production assembly team and assembles products
• Follow documented policies and procedures as designated by the company's Quality System
• Follow detailed assembly instructions, processes and procedures
• Complete required documentation relating to business or regulatory requirements
• Maintain a clean and organized work area to facilitate manufacturing functions
• Perform basic navigation within the ERP system (Navision) for order tracking, material tracking, consumption, summary output and rescheduling of orders
  
  

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• High school Diploma, GED, Technical/Trade School or equivalent experience with 2 years supervision experience
• Prior manufacturing work experience in operating machinery and using various hand tools
• Ability to read and comprehend shop orders and working drawings written in English
• Must be able to read and interpret measuring devices (tape measures, calipers, scales)
• Ability to complete basic mathematical functions (add, subtract, multiply, divide) using whole numbers, fractions, decimals and metric system
• Must be able to work in the US

Competency

• Excellent communication and follow-up skills
• Detail and task orientated
• Continuous improvement/innovation
• Must be able to read and write English

Key Behaviors and Tenets of 80/20

• Are accountable to others
• Have the courage to challenge the status quo
• Are honest with co-workers and customers
• Able to be innovative problem solvers
• Team members need to be engaged
• Add value to the Company
• Expects excellence of self and others
• Overserves top customers
• Understands, simplifies and acts to improve processes

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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The phrases "occasionally," "regularly," and "frequently" correspond to the following definitions: "Occasionally" means up to 1/3 of working time, "regularly" means between 1/3 and 2/3 of working time, and "frequently" means 2/3 and more working time.
• While performing the duties and responsibilities of this position, the employee is occasionally required to walk, use foot/feet to operate machine, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, reach above shoulders and move from place to place. The incumbent will regularly stand, sit and talk and listen and frequently use hands to finger, handle or touch. Specific vision requirements for this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• During the performance of his/her work duties, the incumbent will be required to occasionally lift up to 50 pounds and will frequently lift up to 25 pounds such as moving parts from material storage and moving parts in and out of work area.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee works in a factory environment and is occasionally exposed to wet, humid conditions and toxic or caustic chemicals. He/she is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is loud.
• The above statement reflects the general details necessary to describe the principal functions of the occupation describes and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that may be inherent in the occupation.