MANUFACTURING TEAM LEADER I - 1st Shift

About the role

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more. Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in daily production activities to achieve output, quality, and efficiency goals.
• Monitor production performance and drive corrective actions to meet schedules.
• Coordinate staffing, work assignments, and overtime to support production demands.
• Reduce downtime through rapid response to equipment and process issues.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts to eliminate waste, increase productivity, and improve throughput.
• Monitor and reduce scrap, rework, and defects through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ensure operators follow standardized work instructions and manufacturing procedures.
• Support inventory accuracy and material availability to prevent production interruptions.
• Train, coach, and develop production employees to improve skills and performance.
• Drive a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and operational excellence.
• Review production KPIs including OEE, efficiency, labor utilization, scrap, downtime, and on-time delivery.
• Partner with Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, and Supply Chain teams to optimize production performance.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of related work experience is preferable.
• Detail-oriented individual with multi‑tasking abilities.
• Ability to work under general supervision.
• Can communicate clearly both written and verbally in English.
• Soldering certification preferable.
• HS Diploma or GED required.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, person granted asylee status in the U.S., or person admitted into the U.S. as a refugee (due to ITAR/EAR controls).

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