Production Group Lead - Nights

Responsibilities

• Responsible and accountable for their respective team’s performance in safety, quality, delivery and productivity.
• Ensure full compliance and efforts in support of Vestas safety and quality standards and proactively address challenges.
• Emphasize a positive environment fostering team member safety, collaboration, accountability and ownership.
• Set an example showing focus on Vestas’ core values in accountability, collaboration, simplicity and ownership.
• Build high-performance teams inspiring performance and the very best from all members of the process team.
• Translate goals set by leadership into tasks and drive completion of daily production schedule, responsible for team’s performance with regards to safety, quality, delivery and schedule adherence.
• Coordinate the allocation of employees, materials, equipment to optimize output while ensuring all organizational policies, procedures and applicable laws are adhered to.
• Support Supervisor and other members of Management with company communication; ensure open and transparent, bi-directional communication amongst teams both laterally between team members but also to support groups, supplier groups, customer groups and management.
• Coach Vestas Production Team Members and temporary employees as needed for continuous improvement on expectations and performance in safe work practices, meeting required quality standards, takt and efficient completion of tasks.
• Set an example, always, with regards to safe behavior, hazard recognition, and incident prevention.
• Ensure team’s compliance of established safety rules, policies and practices of environmental, health and safety with specific attention to the Vestas Lifesaving Rules.
• Conduct daily/monthly safety inspections in assigned area, correcting hazards identified, and ensure that employees are always using proper PPE.
• Alert appropriate support function when encountering the need to execute non-standard processes, and lead/participate in creation of job hazard analysis prior to work being performed.
• Investigate incidents and near misses in conjunction with the safety representative.
• Take immediate action when tools or equipment are not being used safely or when tools need repair that are presenting safety risks.
• Ensure process area teams adherence to all quality standards and specifications; ensure team follows all work instructions as outlined in PWIs, Technical Specs, and Quality Messages.
• Conduct (or team conducts) all quality walks and inspections as prescribed by the control plan; ensure all IRFs and QDAs are filled out in a timely manner alerting, via an NC, of any process deviations and defects.
• Lead and/or participate in all defect/NC root cause/corrective action exercises for assigned process area/shift and lead and/or support implementation of all corrective actions.
• Provide feedback and input to Team Members performance evaluations, behavior and task performance; recommend and provide input to TDR proficiency in assigned process areas.
• Maintain good housekeeping standards through 5S concepts and practices in assigned process area; demonstrate solid and practical understanding of and commitment toward the use of Lean tools including 5S, Standard Work, Job Cards with a Continuous Improvement mindset always.
• Support to Supervision: Provide day-to-day direction to team members in assigned area but no direct supervisory role; provide Team Member performance feedback to Supervisors for use in personnel evaluations.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or general education degree (GED), one to three years related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Minimum (1) year experience in process area required or previous leadership experience inside Vestas as Lead Operator, Team Lead, Process Instructor, Supervisor or equivalent.
• Candidate should be performing at or above expectations according to CPD performance and behavior feedback and should not have any open/active warnings or performance improvement plans.
• Able to read and interpret documents (operating / maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, engineering drawings), generate routine reports / correspondence and to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees is required.
• Able to use the basic functionality included in the Microsoft Office Application Suite and Vestas’ proprietary or subscribed-to computer applications used for managing or tracking production-related activities (ex. time tracking, material transactions) is required.