Lead

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; stop and alert if predefined indicators are below target.
• Primary contact for response to situations where scrap is occurring in any process step.

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 4 years of related experience.

Skills

• Serves as an expert/consultant in manufacturing line skills with other employees.
• Demonstrates broad knowledge of manufacturing line techniques and may improve processes.
• Applies new technologies/techniques.
• Effectively presents information in one‑on‑one and small‑group situations to employees and supervisors.
• Reads, comprehends, and interprets moderately complex instructions.
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides all units of measure; computes rates, ratios, percentages; draws and interprets bar graphs.
• Solves practical problems and deals with a variety of concrete variables where limited standardization exists.
• Interprets instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Decision Making / Discretion

• Moderate impact; may influence multiple programs or areas.
• Performs analyses/work using some independent judgment; decisions affect the team.

Supervision / Leadership

• Receives little to no instruction and requires little to no supervision.
• May provide guidance to other nonexempt personnel.

Work Environment

• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts.
• Occasional exposure to repetitive motion, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock.
• May require overtime and 2nd or 3rd shift assignments as required.
• Noise level is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequent handling of small components.
• Occasional stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling; talking and hearing.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 lb; occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lb.
• Specific vision abilities required: close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.