Job Description
Job Description
Description : Summary
The Production Team Leader is responsible for ensuring employees are working safely while production and quality requirements are met within their respective department.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensures employees receive training and understand all safety requirements and procedures related to their work. Enforces personal protective equipment requirements
- Departmental daily safety spot check
- Guides and manages team to ensure KPI’s and other performance metrics are met
- Understands the scope, impacts and intricacies of the on-shift production process
- Communicates clearly and effectively across all levels of the organization
- Fosters and develops a culture of safety, quality, teamwork, accountability and respect
- Employs strong leadership skills in management of team
- Coaches, trains and develops team
- Clearly communicates expectations and ensures thorough onboarding of new employees, including ensuring an understanding of safe operating procedures
- Ensures team’s compliance with safety guidelines, company standards and production goals
- Makes a working contribution to team’s success and holds the team accountable to meet KPI’s and other objectives in a timely manner
- Continuously identifies opportunities for improvement through assessment of team’s control point process, variables, equipment, resources, efficiencies, methods, challenges and strengths
- Gathers, sorts, analyzes and filters shift data and compiles reports based on results
- Ensures operational efficiencies are met, coordinates preventative maintenance and repairs in conjunction with maintenance according to production plan, addresses concerns quickly and continuously evaluates equipment and processes
- Manages a safe and clean work environment
- Educates and directs team members on the use of control points, equipment and resources, ensuring compliance
- Thinks critically and utilizes various problem solving, leadership and analytics methods to address challenges
- Works closely with Supervisor, EHS, HR, Quality and others to ensure all parties are informed and in compliance and reports incidents or accidents immediately
- Uses software systems to manage team’s schedules, hours, performance and disciplinary actions, create reports and perform safety and layered process audits
Skills and Experience
High school diploma, GED, or equivalentOutstanding written and oral communication skills2-3 years of experience in manufacturing leadership, coaching, development and / or training roleKnowledge, management, and improvement of automotive production and / or quality processProduction planning, MSP, reportingApplication of control plan, controls administration, operational efficienciesAbility to follow instructions, delegate and interpret and enforce policies and procedures.Familiarity with SAP, Attendance Counts, DMS, Beacon, Microsoft Suite, and OutlookAble to operate full operations of fork lift truck daily.Organizational Culture
Work safely and follow rules and guidelines for safe workReporting to work on time and with a positive attitudeResponsible for staying focused on tasks at handBeing responsible for work performance and completing tasks throughout the dayMaintains a good working relationship with co-workersSupport a positive and steady workflow through the companyWorks with a sense of urgency when neededSupport, coach or mentor co-workers when neededPositively support change throughout the companyPhysical Work Conditions
Must be able to work in a hot environmentMust be able to lift and move aluminum wheels of varying weightMust be able to stand and walk for up to 12 hours per dayMust be able to wear personal protective equipment when requiredPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.Requirements :