Assistant Shift Leader

About the role

The Assistant Shift Leader supports the Shift Leader in coordinating people, production, quality, safety, and technical activity across the assigned shift. This is a hands-on floor leadership role that helps keep production running, provides direction and support to employees, completes required documentation, and responds to routine equipment and process issues within the employee's training and authorization. When the Shift Leader is absent, this position assumes assigned day-to-day shift leadership responsibilities within established procedures and management direction.

Responsibilities

• Help organize daily production activity, align staffing with the production schedule, communicate priorities, and support an effective shift handoff.
• Provide work direction, coaching, and on-the-job training to assigned employees while reinforcing safe work practices, quality standards, and production expectations.
• Monitor staffing, attendance, housekeeping, safety, quality, productivity, scrap, downtime, and schedule performance throughout the shift.