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About the role

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market‑leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing feedback on performance of individuals through both formal and informal evaluations.
• Initiate and participate in process development and cost improvement projects.
• Coordinate people resource requirements for the department.
• Assist in department budget planning and manage department expenses.
• Communicate daily plan and any production or customer service issues.
• Highlight material shortages and interface with Expediter/Purchasing on any part shortages.
• Recognize and monitor bottlenecks.
• Report and alert resources concerning downtime.
• Interface with Test Support/Maintenance on equipment problems.
• Track time for NPI/Pre‑production/re‑work.
• Communicate with opposite shift to ensure communication flow.
• Update department communication boards.
• Follow quality indicators and stop and alert if predefined indicators are below target.
• Primary contact for response to situations where scrap is occurring in any process step.

Requirements

• Typically requires an Associate’s Degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 2 years of related experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Awareness of Flex technologies/techniques.
• Demonstrates functional and/or process knowledge and participates in process.
• High level of competency related to function.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret moderately complex instructions.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Decision Making / Discretion

Moderate impact; may have influence on multiple programs or areas. Can perform analyses/work using some independent judgment. Decisions affect the team.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and occasionally to repetitive motion, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. Overtime and 2nd or 3rd shift assignments may be required. The noise level is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms; frequently handles small components; occasionally stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls; and must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 lb (occasionally up to 25 lb). Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.