Job Summary:
We are looking for a talented Maintenance Shift Lead– 2nd Shift to join our team specializing in Logistics for our Cummins Inc. facility in Ladson, SC.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Maintain an unwavering commitment to safety by identifying hazards, following HSE requirements, using PPE, and immediately reporting risks, incidents, and injuries.
- Protect people and the environment by correcting hazards within your control, supporting coworkers, and minimizing environmental impacts.
- Deliver high-quality workmanship that consistently meets specifications, standards, procedures, and inspection requirements.
- Maximize equipment reliability through effective preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance while supporting failure analysis.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying constraints, solving problems, raising quality concerns, and implementing practical solutions.
- Serve as a technical leader and resource by coordinating work, sharing expertise, and supporting the development of less experienced team members.
To be successful in this role you will need the following:
- Build strong partnerships across teams : Collaborate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve shared goals, solve problems, and drive operational success.
- Communicate clearly and effectively : Tailor communications to different audiences, ensuring alignment, transparency, and informed decision-making.
- Drive customer-focused outcomes : Build strong relationships and deliver solutions that balance operational excellence with customer needs and expectations.
- Make sound decisions in complex situations : Analyze information, navigate competing priorities, and take timely action to keep work moving forward and challenges resolved.
- Champion safety and continuous improvement : Model proactive health and safety behaviors, apply hazard controls, and leverage manufacturing knowledge to improve processes, equipment, and workplace performance.
- Deliver results through accountability and learning : Take ownership of commitments, seek feedback for continuous growth, embrace new challenges, and contribute diverse perspectives that strengthen team performance and innovation.
Education/Experience
- High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
- This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
- Significant work experience and in-depth knowledge obtained through specialized training and relevant experience.
Job Summary
- Supervise and co-ordinate the daily activities of the maintenance team by co-ordination of team members, achievement of functional KPI’s / targets and housekeeping.
- Provides detailed reactive and proactive technical guidance and feedback for team members in accomplishing technical tasks and goals; sets expectation and clarifies responsibilities ensuring performance standards, standard work, business values and ethical standards are maintained.
- Demonstrated technical knowledge within ME and maintenance function. Identifies skill set gaps within the team, drives continuous improvement, drives and implements changes in current processes and equipment to reduce safety incidents and increase equipment uptime.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensures team members are using and following safety protocols. Lead, develop and highlight training needs within the team.
- As a technical lead assist with the completion of COMET investigations representing the maintenance function. Drive engagement in safety investigations and initiatives within the team.
- Supervise and co-ordinate the daily activities of the maintenance team by co-ordination of team members, live issues, and achievement of functional KPI’s / targets.
- Provides guidance and feedback for team members in accomplishing technical tasks and goals; sets expectations and clarifies responsibilities ensuring performance standards, standard work, business values and ethical standards are maintained.
- Conduct structured daily start and end of shift meetings. Ensure Work orders are clearly documented and in alignment with Maximo expectations.
- Co-ordinate apprentice on the job training in alignment with the apprenticeship criteria and department goals.
- Lead the team with a continuous improvement mindset through lessons learnt and data analysis. Drive departmental ownership of known and ongoing issues.
- Work cross-functionally to recommend improvements and engage in improving safety, productivity, quality, and efficiency of team.
- Serves as group lead on projects and work assignments, providing development opportunities to the team in co-ordination with department manager.
- Work in alignment with department manager to coach and mentor team members. Provide input and suggestions toward annual reviews and performance management. Assists management in organizing and coordinating headcount and overtime needs to meet production and delivery schedules.
Skills
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Nimble learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Demonstrates self-awareness - Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
- Controls Safety - Recognizes controls related hazards in a manufacturing environment (Electrical, Hydraulic, Pneumatic) to incorporate safe practices and procedures as part of the daily work plan to reduce injuries and create a safe machine environment.
- Health and Safety Fundamentals - Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.
- Manufacturing Knowledge - Demonstrates the knowledge of manufacturing by correctly implementing changes in current processes, equipment, and applications to meet the function's needs and contribute towards continuous improvement.
- Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Education Licences, certifications
High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
Job Manufacturing
Organization Cummins Inc.
Role Category On-site with Flexibility
Job Type Shop
ReqID 2433268
Relocation Package Yes
100% On-Site No
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