Lead

About the role

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing feedback on performance of individuals through both formal and informal evaluations.
• Initiate and participate in process development and cost improvement projects.
• Cookordination 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, 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

Education / Experience: Typically requires an Associate’s Degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience. Typically requires 6 years of related experience.

Skills

• Serves as an expert/consultant in manufacturing line skills with other employees.
• Applies new technologies/ techniques.
• Reads, comprehends and interprets complex instructions.
• Works with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Applies concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Solves practical problems and deals with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in various forms.

Decision Making / Discretion

May have multi-functional impact, has influence on different programs or areas. May make decisions or recommendations for team. Decisions may affect other teams.

Supervision / Leadership

Receives little to no instruction. Requires little to no supervision. May provide guidance to other nonexempt personnel. Determines methods and procedures on new assignments. Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to work that requires repetitive motion, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock and occasionally works in job assignments that may require overtime and 2nd or 3rd shift job assignments as required. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Physical Demands: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to handle small components. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk and hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process. Please email accessibility@flex.com and we'll discuss your specific situation and next steps.