DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations Transfer Portal - Assembly Team Lead

Crest Industries • Alexandria, LA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is seeking an Assembly Team Lead to join their collaborative and innovative team. DIS-TRAN has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high-voltage, open-air substations, and switchyards since 1965. The Assembly Team Lead is a hands-on production leader responsible for helping the team safely achieve daily and weekly production targets while maintaining quality and keeping work flowing. This role involves working alongside Assembly Technicians, anticipating problems, coordinating solutions, and keeping the team focused on priorities. The Team Lead sets the pace for safe work, communicates expectations clearly, develops team capability, and provides timely status updates.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Experience in manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, construction, or a similar production environment required.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints, drawings, measuring devices, and production documentation.
• Proficiency with basic shop math, including fractions, decimals, and whole numbers.
• Experience in safely using common hand tools, power tools, and production equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to plan work, organize priorities, communicate clearly, solve problems, and teach or train others.
• Ability to balance hands-on production work with leadership responsibility for safety, quality, schedule, and overall team flow.
• Demonstrated leadership experience on the shop floor, including the ability to guide, support, and positively influence fellow technicians.

Nice To Haves

• Prior lead or informal leadership experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example and make safe work the first priority in every production activity; stop and correct unsafe conditions or behaviors before work continues.
• Conduct or support pre-job planning, safety discussions, hazard identification, and verification that employees understand the safe method of work before beginning non-routine or higher-risk tasks.
• Ensure required PPE, guards, lifting devices, tools, and equipment are available and used correctly; reinforce safe operation of forklifts, cranes, hoists, machinery, hand tools, and power tools.
• Maintain strong housekeeping and 5S expectations so aisles, work areas, tools, materials, and equipment remain organized and production-ready.
• Promptly communicate incidents, near misses, hazards, damaged equipment, and safety concerns to supervision and participate in corrective actions and continuous improvement.
• Own the team’s execution of the production schedule and organize daily work to meet production targets and on-time delivery commitments.
• Look ahead beyond the current task or shift to understand what work is coming next and what is required to start and complete it without avoidable delay.
• Review drawings, work instructions, schedules, priorities, and job requirements in advance; identify missing information, material, tooling, equipment, capacity, or support needs before they become production constraints.
• Provide accurate material requests and need dates, verify critical materials are available when required, and communicate shortages, non-conformances, or delivery risks early enough for corrective action.
• Coordinate labor and task assignments based on priorities, skills, bottlenecks, and readiness of work; adjust assignments throughout the day to maintain productive flow.
• Monitor progress against planned hours, schedule milestones, and production targets.
• Recognize when the team is falling behind, determine the cause, take appropriate action, and escalate risks with recommended solutions.
• Maintain accurate production hours, cost-tracking information, schedule updates, and other required production records.
• Provide regular progress updates to the Production Manager, including completed work, current status, constraints, recovery actions, and upcoming needs.
• Ensure assembly work is completed to drawings, specifications, work instructions, and the Quality Management System (QMS).
• Build quality into the process by checking work at appropriate points, addressing defects promptly, and preventing rework from moving downstream.
• Communicate material quality issues, critical dimension concerns, and summit non-conformances to management in a timely manner.
• Audit assembly processes, work methods, and equipment; identify practical improvements that increase safety, quality, productivity, and reliability.
• Partner with supervisors, managers, Production Support, Quality, Engineering, Material/Inventory, and other functions to remove barriers and improve production performance.
• Set clear daily priorities, production expectations, safety expectations, and quality standards for the team.
• Motivate, organize, and encourage teamwork while maintaining a clear sense of direction, urgency, accountability, and focus.
• Work hands-on with the team as needed while maintaining awareness of the entire work area and the next production priorities; avoid becoming so focused on one task that team flow is lost.
• Train, coach, and develop team members in safe work practices, blueprint reading, assembly methods, tool and equipment use, quality requirements, and efficient work practices.
• Identify skill gaps and coordinate cross-training so the team has the capability and flexibility needed to meet the production schedule.
• Address performance or workflow concerns promptly and communicate issues requiring management support.
• Read and interpret blueprints, layouts, specifications, measurements, and assembly requirements.
• Position, align, fit, and assemble parts and structures using appropriate machinery, hand tools, and power tools.
• Safely move and position parts manually or with approved forklifts, cranes, hoists, and other material-handling equipment.
• Use measuring devices and basic shop math to verify dimensions and assembly requirements.
• Support routine equipment care, preventive maintenance, and keeping production equipment and work areas in good operating condition.

Benefits

• DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.

What This Job Offers

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