Assembly Lead Technician

Carrier • Charlotte, NC

10d • $24 - $48

About The Position

Carrier is seeking an Assembly Lead Technician to support departmental safety, quality, productivity, delivery, and cost performance. The Team Lead is expected to know departmental operations thoroughly, demonstrate process proficiency, and provide immediate assembly or process coverage when employees are absent. The role coordinates daily work assignments, communicates with cross-shift counterparts and team members, leads weekly stand-up meetings to review metrics and collect improvement suggestions, and helps orient and train new employees. The Team Lead also promotes attendance, engagement, urgency, continuous improvement, waste reduction, and safe equipment and machine operation.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• At least 1 year of experience working at a Carrier facility.

Nice To Haves

• Collaborative communication style and ability to drive results.
• Ability to facilitate teams.
• Computer proficiency, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Demonstrated problem-solving experience.
• Ability to make decisions, resolve issues, and promote and champion change.
• Commitment to personal development.
• Work history demonstrating teamwork, versatility, and flexibility.
• Ability to work well with others and independently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong decision-making and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of multiple production lines.
• Willingness to work overtime as needed.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, assist with, and improve departmental safety, quality, productivity, delivery, and cost performance.
• Ensure safety throughout the department and help ensure equipment and machines remain in safe, good working condition.
• Prevent, address, and countermeasure quality issues; coordinate quality-control activities and implement work standards and process specifications.
• Meet and exceed daily productivity goals and initiate improvement actions to reduce departmental spending.
• Support other departmental metrics.
• Model good attendance and punctuality, reinforce effective work habits, and promote urgency in reaching team goals.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of departmental operations and provide process or assembly coverage for absences.
• Meet daily with cross-shift counterparts at the start and end of shifts; coordinate daily work assignments and hold weekly stand-up meetings to review metrics and gather suggestions or concerns.
• Communicate across shifts about quality, workload capacity, safety, staffing, continuous-improvement issues, and machine or component problems.
• Solve problems on an ongoing basis and encourage use of continuous-improvement tools and methods.
• Provide new-employee orientation and introductions, communicate daily with team members, and coordinate on-the-job training.
• Perform departmental operations cross-functionally and seek opportunities to improve processes and eliminate waste.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; wellness incentives.
• Retirement benefits.
• Paid vacation, sick days, personal leave, and holidays.
• Birth and adoption leave, parental leave, family and medical leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, and military leave.
• Purchased vacation.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
• Health Savings Account, Healthcare Spending Account, and Dependent Care Spending Account.
• Tuition assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED