Team Lead

About the role

OPW is seeking a Team Lead II to supervise a diverse team at our Conover manufacturing facility, ensuring efficient and high-quality production of products. This role involves monitoring work progress, training employees, and communicating production goals and procedure changes. The position is based onsite in Conover with a base schedule of Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 3:00 pm, with the ability to work overtime as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead safety toolbox talks, participate in monthly plant safety meetings, and 6S Kaizen events
• Perform in-process layered audits to ensure procedures are being followed and documentation is 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 and 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 increase productivity
• Work with training coordinator to develop team members

Critical Competencies

• Emotional intelligence – The ability to understand and manage your own emotions and those of your team members. This helps you navigate team dynamics, make decisions, and build relationships.
• Adaptability – The ability to adapt to different situations and influence your team.
• Conflict resolution – The ability to identify and manage different types of workplace conflict.
• Problem solving – The ability to tackle problems with a can-do attitude, think strategically, and provide concrete solutions.
• Interpersonal communication – The ability to interact with and influence others respectfully through verbal and nonverbal communication.
• Leadership – The ability to guide a diverse team, both individually and collectively, to achieve objectives in a manner that adheres to our Dover Values.
• Delegation – The ability to delegate tasks to your team members in a way that helps them grow, facilitates teamwork, and leads to better decision-making.
• Integrity – The ability to do the right thing, even when no one is watching. This can help set the tone for your entire team.

Requirements

• Associate's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• At least 1-3 years of leadership experience as a team lead or a similar role
• 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 strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions or approaches to problems
• Skill in problem detection and solving – 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

Benefits

Our total rewards package for eligible team members includes: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; medical, dental and vision insurance; wellness programs; health savings account; health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts; company paid short-term disability and long-term disability; company paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance; supplemental employee and dependent life insurance; optional accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness insurance; adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits and assistance; commuter benefits; parental, military, jury duty, and bereavement leaves of absence; paid time off; business travel services; employee discounts; and an employee assistance program that includes company paid counseling sessions and legal services.

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