Business Team Leader Packaging 2nd Evergreen

Position Summary

This person is responsible for leading the day-to-day distribution activities to achieve performance goals in the areas of safety, quality, cost, and delivery, in a high performing work team environment. Must be capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams and department leaders to address concerns and issues that affect safety, part quality, production efficiency, continuous improvement, etc.

Essential Duties

• Provide leadership for all activities for shipping and receiving areas and the team members.
• Communicate with other shifts to ensure consistency and meet priorities.
• Drives operations to ensure safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and budget goals are achieved.
• Establish strong and effective working relationships that are conducive to maintaining a positive work environment.
• Ensure that team members are trained, in accordance to the Training Policy, understand their roles and responsibilities, and are given appropriate performance feedback.
• Communicate with team members providing positive feedback when appropriate and addressing disciplinary actions when necessary.
• Hold daily start up meetings.
• Resolve personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; and recommending actions to department manager and human resources.
• Maintain team member attendance using time and attendance system daily to ensure proper points and payroll accuracy.
• Promote and drives the organization's vision and utilization of KPS (Lean Manufacturing) methodologies.
• Promote and drive continuous improvement by collecting loss data and reviewing frequently.
• Provide operations information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests.
• Promote team work and maintain strong, positive employee relations.
• Ensure compliance with all company procedures and policies; address issues and lack of compliance.
• Maintain shop floor engagement and presence to ensure employee and customer needs are met.
• Understand and adhere to current company health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures, including ISO14001.
• Is empowered to identify, stop, and communicate or escalate appropriate action in regard to safety, health, and environmental concerns.
• Understand current company quality policies and procedures, including IATF16949.
• Is empowered to identify, stop, and communicate or escalate appropriate action in regard to product quality.
• Perform other duties as assigned. Including coverage in other departments/shifts as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, or other similar field, preferred.
• Two years experience supervising a team of 20 or more in a manufacturing environment with lean methodologies.
• Innovative
• Demonstrated experience in motivating and leading people and driving a positive work environment is required.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite. Statistical evaluation software familiarity a plus.
• Demonstrated strong problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Able to handle multiple priorities.
• Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing techniques with emphasis on Standardized Work, Continuous Improvement, 5S, and JIT principles.
• Greenbelt Certification preferred.
• Able to work overtime as needed both daily and weekend.