Group Leader 4

Responsibilities

• Supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers.
• Recommend measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
• Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.
• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, and maintenance to detect production problems.
• Hire, train, evaluate, and discharge staff, and resolve personal grievances.
• Prepare and maintain production reports and personnel records.
• Participate in the training, developing, and evaluating of hourly team members.
• Participate in the development of highly effective teams.
• Lead Global Manufacturing Systems processes and serve as a resource supporting launch and pilot activities in assigned areas.
• Meet or exceed production cost schedule and maintain quality requirements.
• Maintain awareness of quality standards, communicate department quality goals, and leverage resources to solve quality issues.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with employees, union, and management.
• Understand and consistently administer the National and Local Agreements between the company and the union workers.
• Implement and follow systems that prevent reoccurrence of known issues.
• Promote safe work practices and achieve objectives for ergonomics, health and safety, and housekeeping.
• Motivate, train, and develop employees to effectively perform their jobs utilizing standardized methods. Ensure team members receive adequate JIT (job instruction training).
• Achieve production schedules and product requirements by applying lean manufacturing/synchronous principles with emphasis on variation reduction, control costs, and achieve productivity improvements.
• Coach, teach, counsel, and mentor Group Leaders in these responsibilities.

Requirements

• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.