Job Summary
The Assembly Team Lead balances hands-on technical production with operational leadership. This role involves overseeing the daily workflow, activities, and schedule of an assigned assembly team while ensuring that components are correctly assembled according to blueprints and quality standards. The Team Lead acts as a knowledgeable resource, keeping production moving smoothly, meeting shipping deadlines, and maintaining an efficient, safe manufacturing environment.
Supervisory & Leadership Responsibilities
- Workflow Management: Oversees the daily workflow, scheduling, and assignments of the assigned assembly team.
- Talent Development: Assists with interviewing, hiring, and training new team members, identifying training needs, and providing ongoing coaching.
- Performance Tracking: Monitors and motivates team performance, reports on metrics to the supervisor, and contributes to timely performance evaluations.
- Team Guidance: Serves as a knowledgeable resource for team members and motivates the team to accomplish daily production objectives.
Duties & Responsibilities
Technical & Assembly Operations
- Assembly Execution: Assembles machinery, trailer components, fabricated metal products, and electrical equipment using hand tools, power tools, blueprints, and layout specifications.
- Component Alignment: Positions, aligns, and fits parts to form complete units or subunits using jigs, welding torches, and precision measurements.
- Material Handling: Operates a forklift to safely move heavy equipment and materials around the manufacturing area.
- Quality Assurance: Inspects the quality and quantity of arriving supplies, measures dimensions of completed parts to verify conformance, and ensures outgoing deliveries meet company standards.
Operational Oversight
- Issue Resolution: Identifies, investigates, and resolves delays in assembly operations, immediately alerting the supervisor or production planning department to avoid missing deadlines.
- Equipment Maintenance: Ensures necessary equipment is available and in working order, performs basic repairs, and facilitates major maintenance when needed.
- Process Improvement: Collaborates with management (such as the Director of Operations) and the team to suggest improvements that boost efficiency, safety, and cost reduction.
- Record Keeping: Maintains detailed, accurate work records and documents routine warehouse/inventory activities.
- Workplace Safety: Ensures the manufacturing area remains free from debris, tools are properly readied or put away, and safety protocols are strictly followed.
Required Skills & Abilities
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Leadership Capability: Strong supervisory, leadership, and team-motivation skills.
- Technical Proficiency: Ability to read and understand complex blueprints, schematics, and layouts, alongside a basic ability in mathematics.
- Organization & Problem-Solving: Strong analytical, organizational, and time-management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines under pressure.
- Procedural Knowledge: Thorough understanding of warehouse/operations procedures, policies, regulations, and documentation.
Pay: $28.00 - $30.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Opportunities for advancement
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
