Team lead

About the role

This position is based onsite in our Whitsett manufacturing facility. The base schedule is Friday, Saturday, Sunday 7:00 am to 7:00 pm, with ability to work overtime as needed required.

Responsibilities

• The Team Lead is responsible for supervising a diverse team, ensuring the efficient and high quality production of products. This includes monitoring work progress, training employees, and communicating production goals and procedure changes.
• We are looking for individuals with a strong understanding of the assembly process and prior experience in a Team Lead role.
• In addition, Team Lead II’s must have high attention to detail, the ability to communicate effectively, skill in critical thinking and problem-solving, and a strong focus on quality and efficiency.
• Lead safety toolbox talks, participate in monthly plant safety meetings, & 6S Kaizen events.
• Perform in process layered audits to ensure procedures are being followed and documentation is being completed thoroughly.
• Maintain LDM boards with correct data, owners, and actions.
• Update hour by hour boards to demonstrate team performance and work order status.
• Review and execute work-center schedules for on-time delivery.
• Coordinate with Maintenance department to ensure machine uptime status is optimized.
• Assign daily tasks & duties to operators.
• Manage rework and scrap process.
• Maintain accurate inventory data on all components counted for scrap, excess, etc.
• Maintain FIFO and WIP lanes.
• Lead and participate in kaizen events aimed to eliminate waste and to increase productivity.
• Work with training coordinator to develop team members.

Requirements

• Associates degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Must demonstrate integrity in all aspects of performance.
• Ability to perform work in a safe manner.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time (up to 10 hours).
• Skill in critical thinking or using logic and reasoning to identify the strength and weaknesses of alternative solutions or approaches to problems.
• Skill in problem detection and solving or recognizing when something is wrong, or likely to go wrong, and using critical thinking to execute a solution.
• High attention-to-detail, including the ability to accurately follow instructions and execute production.
• Ability to manage a diverse group of people.
• Ability to disseminate information thoroughly and accurately to a multilingual population.
• At least 1-3 years of leadership experience as a team lead or a similar role.