Cell Leader - AWW Shift (Onsite)

RTX•Middletown, NJ

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Pratt & Whitney is seeking a Cell Leader for the AWW Shift to provide leadership and direction with an emphasis on team building. This role involves developing an efficient team responsible for engine assembly, establishing standards and expectations for work effort and performance, and providing constant feedback. The Cell Leader will communicate with other departments and customers to ensure satisfaction, address issues, and engage the workforce in achieving production goals. Responsibilities include allocating resources, coaching employees, performing administrative functions for bargaining unit employees (maintaining training, quality, and attendance records), managing cell overtime, and ensuring Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) compliance. The role also requires ensuring employees are trained in EHS aspects, maintaining a strong safety culture, responding promptly to EHS requirements, keeping equipment clean and maintained, and optimizing equipment uptime. Additionally, the Cell Leader must ensure full involvement in continuous improvement initiatives, utilize continuous improvement tools to enhance production and reduce scrap/rework, and uphold all Quality policies and procedures. The goal is to control quality, productivity, and process flow to meet Material Requirement Planning (MRP) needs and ensure high customer satisfaction.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and minimum 2 years experience in an engineering, manufacturing, operations, production, quality or related industrial environment OR Associate's degree and minimum 4 years' experience in an engineering, manufacturing, operations, production, quality or related industrial environment
In absence of a degree, 6 or more years' experience in an engineering, manufacturing, operations, production, quality or related industrial environment
Experience in MS Office applications, specifically MS PowerPoint and Excel
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Nice To Haves

STEM degree
Experience as a team lead
Continuous improvement certificates/training such as 6 sigma practitioner/Professional certification.
Understanding of Environmental Health & Safety principles

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and direction with emphasis on team building through employee meetings and effective communications.
Develop an efficient team responsible for engine assembly.
Establish standards and expectations for work effort and performance for subordinates.
Give constant feedback on performance to established standards.
Communicate with other department personnel and customers to ensure customer satisfaction.
Actively address issues and engage the workforce in achieving production goals.
Allocate and assign resources.
Coach employees to improve performance when needed.
Perform administrative functions as related to bargaining unit employees, including maintaining training, quality, and attendance records.
Manage cell overtime and equitably distribute among employees.
Ensure that all employees are fully trained in required aspects of Environmental Health & Safety.
Maintain a World Class safety culture.
Respond to all Environmental Health & Safety requirements promptly.
Ensure department equipment is clean, properly maintained, records and labels properly affixed, and uptime optimized while meeting all safety requirements.
Ensure full involvement in continuous improvement initiatives is consistently upheld.
Utilize continuous improvement tools to improve production, performance, and reduce scrap, rework, and repair.
Achieve continuous improvement levels as planned.
Ensure compliance to all Quality policies and procedures.
Control quality, productivity, and process flow to meet customer Material Requirement Planning (MRP) requirements while ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.