Summary
The Production Team Leader is responsible for ensuring employees are working safely while production and quality requirements are met within their respective department.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensures employees receive training and understand all safety requirements and procedures related to their work. Enforces personal protective equipment requirements
- Departmental daily safety spot check
- Guides and manages team to ensure KPI’s and other performance metrics are met
- Understands the scope, impacts and intricacies of the on-shift production process
- Communicates clearly and effectively across all levels of the organization
- Fosters and develops a culture of safety, quality, teamwork, accountability and respect
- Employs strong leadership skills in management of team
- Coaches, trains and develops team
- Clearly communicates expectations and ensures thorough onboarding of new employees, including ensuring an understanding of safe operating procedures
- Ensures team’s compliance with safety guidelines, company standards and production goals
- Makes a working contribution to team’s success and holds the team accountable to meet KPI’s and other objectives in a timely manner
- Continuously identifies opportunities for improvement through assessment of team’s control point process, variables, equipment, resources, efficiencies, methods, challenges and strengths
- Gathers, sorts, analyzes and filters shift data and compiles reports based on results
- Ensures operational efficiencies are met, coordinates preventative maintenance and repairs in conjunction with maintenance according to production plan, addresses concerns quickly and continuously evaluates equipment and processes
- Manages a safe and clean work environment
- Educates and directs team members on the use of control points, equipment and resources, ensuring compliance
- Thinks critically and utilizes various problem solving, leadership and analytics methods to address challenges
- Works closely with Supervisor, EHS, HR, Quality and others to ensure all parties are informed and in compliance and reports incidents or accidents immediately
- Uses software systems to manage team’s schedules, hours, performance and disciplinary actions, create reports and perform safety and layered process audits
Skills and Experience
- High school diploma, GED, or equivalent
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills
- 2-3 years of experience in manufacturing leadership, coaching, development and/or training role
- Knowledge, management, and improvement of automotive production and/or quality process
- Production planning, MSP, reporting
- Application of control plan, controls administration, operational efficiencies
- Ability to follow instructions, delegate and interpret and enforce policies and procedures.
- Familiarity with Paylocity, Attendance Counts, DMS, Beacon, Microsoft Suite, and Outlook
Organizational Culture
- Work safely and follow rules and guidelines for safe work
- Reporting to work on time and with a positive attitude
- Responsible for staying focused on tasks at hand
- Being responsible for work performance and completing tasks throughout the day
- Maintains a good working relationship with co-workers
- Support a positive and steady workflow through the company
- Works with a sense of urgency when needed
- Support, coach or mentor co-workers when needed
- Positively support change throughout the company
Physical Work Conditions
- Must be able to work in a hot environment
- Must be able to lift varying weights
- Must be able to stand and walk for up to 12 hours per day
- Must be able to wear personal protective equipment when required
- Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
