Team Lead, Prod

About the role

Piper Products, a CFS Brands company, is looking for an experienced and motivated Fabrication Team Lead to join our manufacturing team in Wausau, Wisconsin! As part of CFS Brands, Piper Products is part of a growing organization that provides innovative products and solutions to customers across the foodservice, healthcare, and other commercial markets. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a hands-on manufacturing environment while also providing day-to-day leadership and support to a team. The Fabrication Team Lead will help coordinate daily production activities, support and train team members, promote a safe and positive work environment, and help ensure quality and production expectations are met.

Shift

1st Shift, Monday – Friday, 5:00 am – 1:30 pm, plus overtime

Responsibilities

• Assure that all personnel have their work assigned, scheduled, and rotated on a regular basis.
• Responsibly explain all necessary phases of any assembly operations so that each person has a clear understanding of what must be done, how to do it, and what must be done next.
• Assure that all operations are performed in an efficient and expeditious manner for maximum effectiveness. Set up additional assignments and workstations before Assembler is moved.
• Train and direct all personnel to produce profitably and to perform all the tasks required with thorough knowledge of assembly operations.
• Ensure intercommunication of information pertinent to production, operations, plant, and employee protection and welfare.
• Maintain records of production, tests, and/or other operations as required.
• Proper scanning, getting the correct POCR to match label on finished goods or work in process, then making sure pallets are moved to the proper location for shipment to the correct Distribution Center.
• Evaluate personnel under his/her direction for the purpose of preparing reviews, action notices, disciplinary notices, change of status, etc.
• Responsible for all supplies, materials, hardware, etc., and the necessary inventory required, and that all these are properly stored and accounted for. Assure that all hardware at workstations is stored neatly and not mixed (bolts, screws, etc).
• Consistently inspect all parts as they are produced and assembled to ensure a high-quality product consistent with company standards and maintain a logbook on all problems encountered to establish a history for problem areas.
• Accept all work assignments and be responsible for their scheduled completion. Accurate feedback is essential (verbal and written).
• Utilize department personnel to ensure and maintain a neat, clean, and orderly working department daily. The 55 standards are met daily.
• Obtain the assistance of appropriate members of management as soon as conditions indicate the need for corrective action, or for knowledge or ability beyond his/her own. Failure to act accordingly may result in costly waste or damage.
• Work with feeder departments to ensure product flow to the line.
• Utilize the department scheduling board.
• Ability to solve practical problems on the floor.

Work environment

• Wear safety attire and protective gear on a daily basis.
• Usually work indoors. This site may not be temperature controlled.
• Often exposed to loud sounds and distracting noise levels.
• Exposed to hazardous equipment on a weekly basis.
• May be exposed to contaminants.
• May share workspace with others.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.