Production Team Lead

Objective of the Position :

Oversees monitors and coordinates Production Team Members activities, giving importance to individual members and overall team achievement in achieving policy deployment objectives.

SHIFT AVAILABLE :

3rd Shift 8 : 00pm - 6 : 00am

Essential Accountabilities :

• Acts as a role model for safety.
• Enforces company, state, and federal health, safety, and environmental policies and standards.
• Escalates non-standard conditions and breaches of safety discipline.
• Ensures all team members safely evacuate to the assigned meeting point or shelter area.
• Enforces and motivates adherence to 5s standards.
• Enforces the use of the Quality Basics.
• Responsible for timely completion of the First Off Process.
• Monitors non-conforming material and halts production as needed.
• Initiates quarantine actions for nonconforming material and processes.
• Communicates with support departments to coordinate actions to reduce and eliminate production losses from breakdowns, defects, and material shortages.
• Tracks production loss and acts to reduce production loss.
• Manages EPT bottleneck to prevent a negative impact on hourly production.
• Performs problem solving and troubleshooting to identify root cause.
• Conducts level 1 scrap review, decides on quality issues, and dispositions material, based on company and customer standards.
• Facilitates daily level 1 Top 5 meeting.
• Updates EPT board throughout the shift.
• Monitors flow of raw material, work in progress and finished goods.
• Ensures achievement of daily production plan.
• Performs backflush and reprints labels as needed.
• Identifies and recommends improvements to the efficiency of production processes.
• Prepares line for shift handover.
• Reports attendance of employees at shift start meeting to supervisor.
• Accountable for employee productivity throughout the shift.
• Fills in for short absences of operators.
• Prepares for and participates in shift handover meetings.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for assigned production process.
• Responsible for team multivalence and completion of periodic refresher training.
• Trains team members to efficiently operate multiple workstations.
• Empowers selected employees to assume duties in absence of Team Leader.
• Escalates serious issues and other problems in a timely manner according to established procedures.

Secondary Accountabilities :

• Conduct all business-related activities for, and on the behalf of, Purem within the limits of applicable local, state, and federal legal requirements.
• Provide support to, and compliance with, all local and corporate Purem Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) policies, procedures and other HSE related requirements.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and follows all Purem polices related to TS16949 and ISO 14001; looks for way to improve and promote quality.
• Performs some supervisor duties as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirement Profile :

Professional Background / Basic Qualification / Work Experience :

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Minimum three years’ related experience and / or training in manufacturing setting.

Technical Expertise :

• Familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Familiarity with SAP transactions for manual backflush, automatic backflush labels, confirmation labels, non-conforming material blocking, and stock quantities for bills of material.
• Able to make accurate measurements with calipers.
• Familiar with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).

Working Conditions :

• This position involves working indoors around mechanical and hazards, fumes, irritants, with exposure to cold, heat and high noise levels under adverse conditions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.

Physical Requirements :

• Sits : Never.
• Stands : Continuously 5.5 - 8 hours daily.
• Walks : Continuously 5.5 - 8 hours daily.
• Drive : Never.
• Lift / Carry 0-10 lbs. : Occasionally .25 - 2.5 hours daily.
• Lift / Carry 10-20 lbs. : Occasionally .25 - 2.5 hours daily.
• Lift / Carry 20-50 lbs. : Occasionally .25 - 2.5 hours daily.
• Lift / Carry 50- over 100 lbs. : Occasionally .25 - 2.5 hours daily.
• Reach Above : Occasionally .25 - 2.5 hours daily.
• Bend / Stoop : Occasionally .25 - 2.5 hours daily.
• Use Hands for Pushing / Pulling : Occasionally .25 - 2.5 hours daily.
• Use Hands for Manipulations : Occasionally .25 - 2.5 hours daily.
• Stress Level of Job : Moderate.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level or work being performed by employees, and are not constructed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Further, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Purem Novi, Inc.