Metalcasting Production Team Lead

Lead Production at a Legacy Manufacturer

Join Bingham & Taylor’s Culpeper foundry and guide second-shift operations as our Metalcasting Production Team Lead. You’ll coordinate people, processes, and equipment while ensuring a secure facility and a smooth setup for the incoming day shift. Reporting to the Production Superintendent, you will drive safety, quality, and throughput using Lean and Kaizen methods.

Fluent English communication is required to coordinate teams, document actions, and ensure safe operations.

Role highlights

• Direct and coach associates to meet schedule, quality, and safety targets.
• Own hourly production monitoring; remove bottlenecks and enact corrective measures.
• Run daily cell meetings; communicate goals and clarify priorities.
• Conduct / assign audits for safety, quality, and scrap; implement improvements.
• Develop standardized work and practice Leader Standard Work.
• Interpret job orders and specifications; allocate labor and estimate hours.
• Oversee continuous flow and materials delivery systems; pursue CI opportunities.
• Serve as the liaison between associates and management during change initiatives.
• Recommend improvements to processes, equipment, product quality, and working conditions.
• Secure the facility at shift end and prepare equipment / work areas for day shift.

Qualifications

Preferred skills and experience

Compliance statements

Physical Requirements : This position may require frequent bending, lifting, and moving objects weighing up to 50 pounds. Employees should be able to perform this duty with or without reasonable accommodations.

Bingham & Taylor is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. We value diversity and inclusion in our workforce and strive to create an environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics is prohibited and will not be tolerated.

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