Team Lead - 1st Shift

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.
• Cook up 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.
• 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

• Highschool diploma and an associate’s degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 4+ years of related experience and has awareness of Flex technologies/ techniques.
• Demonstrates functional and process knowledge and participates in process.
• Requires high level of competency related to function.
• Demonstrates advanced technical skills and serves as a consultant in manufacturing line skills with other employees.
• Demonstrates broad knowledge of manufacturing line techniques and may improve processes.
• Ability to read and comprehend and interpret moderately complex instructions.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees, and supervisors of the organization.
• 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 in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Qualifications

• 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 in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Skills

• Ability to read and comprehend and interpret moderately complex instructions.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees, and supervisors of the organization.

Benefits

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.