Team Lead 1st Shift - Manufacturing

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Enforce all safety rules, PPE requirements, and machine safeguards
• Lead daily start of shift meetings
• Monitor production vs. plan and take immediate corrective action when needed
• Escalate downtime, quality issues, and staffing gaps
• Support changeovers, startups, and shutdowns
• Ensure adherence to quality standards, control plans, and work instructions
• Respond to quality alerts, defects, customer concerns
• Support containment actions and root cause analysis
• Address attendance, performance, and conduct issues
• Support on-boarding and cross-training of new employees
• Complete daily production reports, track labor hours, scrap, downtime, and key KPIs
• Encourage employee suggestions and engagement
• Maintain and improve visual management in the plant (hour-by-hour boards, quality fast response, Plex Shop visual)
• Cook up with Maintenance/Engineering on work orders, PMs, and equipment readiness
• Work with Purchasing team to ensure all necessary supplies are available
• Communicate constraints, risks, and performance updates to the Plant Manager in real time

Required Skill/Knowledge

• A High School Diploma or equivalent education/certification - technical or trade school background preferred
• Manufacturing background with working knowledge of the production process flow preferred
• Previous experience as a lead or in supervision
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Bilingual (Spanish) - comfort using Microsoft Suite, especially Excel and Outlook
• Previous experience utilizing ERP System (Plex) is strongly preferred
• Must be able to work in a fast manufacturing facility