Warehouse Team Lead

Responsibilities

• Assist with department training plan, progress, and cross-training efforts to increase flexibility and ensure 100% coverage.
• Ensure quality checks and paperwork are complete before product leaves the department.
• Support lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles.
• Assist with 5S improvements, Visual Factory improvements, and changeover/setup reductions.
• Ensure employees maintain a clean working environment, including open aisles and good housekeeping.
• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset within the production teams.
• Highlight critical issues of the value stream to the Operations management team and champion resolutions.
• Communicate daily all relevant information to Value Stream Leaders.
• Inform maintenance of work orders through MMS and coordinate maintenance activities with department requirements and schedules.
• Ensure the safe and timely production of scheduled deliverables by effectively utilizing people, equipment, and material.
• Assist the Value Stream Leader with employee activities, including evaluation, discipline, corrective action requests, root cause analysis, daily metrics, and annual performance evaluations.
• Identify and correct unsafe acts or conditions both within the department and throughout the plant.
• Assist employees with diagnosing malfunctions in machinery and equipment.
• Actively participate in Gemba and prepare LDMS board as needed.
• Assist with the creation and update of standard work instructions.
• Work in the department as needed, up to 80% of the time, to maintain workflow.
• Act as a certified First Responder when trained.
• Apply ISO-9000 system procedures and ensure compliance.
• Act as a role model for team engagement and morale.
• Embody and promote TCF Core Values.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED (required).
• 2+ years in a manufacturing environment.
• Basic knowledge of shop math, hand tools, power tools, and fan knowledge.
• Basic ability to read shop orders, blueprints, and a tape measure.
• Understand and promote company KPI goals and core values.
• Meet expectations in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Efficiency.
• Interpersonal skills in efficient time management, good attendance, accountability, ethical decision-making, customer focus, and teamwork.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as policies, procedures, work instructions, and standards.
• Ability to communicate verbally with co-workers in a productive manner.
• Ability to lead and direct the work of others.
• Ability to work as a team member to achieve overall company objectives.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of employee information, including performance, illness, investigations, and personal information.
• Based on department, may be required to operate a forklift, overhead crane, and electric pallet jack.

Skills

• Basic knowledge of shop math, hand tools, and power tools.
• Ability to read blueprints and a tape measure.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Leadership and teamwork abilities.
• Problem-solving and root cause analysis.

Certifications and Training

The following certifications and training, if required, will be provided by the company:

• Electric and Manual Pallet Jack Training.
• Forklift and Bridge Crane Training.

Physical Demands

• Continuously lift/move 25 pounds; occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds; occasionally pull up to 100 pounds with wheels (pallet jack).
• Continuously stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms above shoulder height; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk; and hear.

Work Environment

• Continuously exposed to moving mechanical parts and extreme heat.
• Occasionally exposed to high places, fumes or airborne particles, and/or caustic chemicals.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Pay

$25.00–$30.00/hour, dependent on experience.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus tied to overall performance of the organization.
• Full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401K plan with employer match.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Education reimbursement.
• Paid vacation and holiday pay.
• Volunteer time.
• Homeownership savings program.
• Pet insurance.