Floor Support Team Lead

Lakeshirts•Detroit Lakes, MN

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Floor Support Team Lead is a hands-on lead who connects the art team with the production floor at Lakeshirts | Blue 84. The role keeps artwork moving on time, maintains production-art and brand standards, and helps artists resolve issues before they disrupt production. It requires organizing changing priorities, coaching team members, troubleshooting production artwork, and communicating across Art, Production, and Quality Control. The position supports daily floor-art operations by using production reports and work orders to assign work, respond to floor needs, maintain standards, and contribute to continuous improvement. The role is onsite at the company's headquarters in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with availability to respond to evening calls. Pay is $23 per hour.

Requirements

Strong Adobe Illustrator skills and practical experience preparing, reviewing, or troubleshooting production-ready artwork.
Strong organization and time-management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, interruptions, and deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
Sound independent judgment and practical problem-solving skills; able to make decisions, escalate appropriately, and follow through.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide approachable direction and constructive feedback.
A servant-leadership approach and ability to guide a team toward shared goals.
Reliability, adaptability, and a demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement, quality, and on-time delivery.
Ability to see and hear, read and write, and meet the stated cognitive and mental requirements, including adaptability, analysis, assessment, calculation, decision-making, dependability, judgment, following directions, managing multiple priorities, and reasoning.
Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including continuous sitting, frequent reaching above shoulder height, and occasional lifting and carrying loads up to 50 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Leadership, coaching, or mentoring experience.
A two- or four-year degree in Graphic Design, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant production-art experience.
Experience in screenprint, apparel decoration, prepress, graphic production, or a high-volume art-to-production workflow.

Responsibilities

Lead and support daily floor-art operations so production goals and deadlines are met while art and brand standards are upheld.
Attend daily production huddles, review production reports and work orders, and communicate the day's priorities to the team.
Assign and reassign artwork according to deadlines, capacity, production needs, and changing priorities.
Coach and train team members on job responsibilities, safety expectations, company policies, and production-art standards.
Partner with artists to answer questions, remove roadblocks, and keep art-to-production handoffs accurate and efficient.
Troubleshoot production artwork and Adobe Illustrator files, coordinate design or logo updates, and protect brand integrity.
Work with Quality Control and production partners to resolve artwork or print-readiness issues and prevent repeat errors.
Review workflows, identify root causes, and improve processes to increase quality, efficiency, and on-time delivery.