Lead Loading Specialist

Poyant Signs•New Bedford, MA

35d•Onsite

About The Position

The Loading, Final Assembly, Quality Control, and Lean Value Stream Departments are responsible for delivering quality compliant products to the Field Service Crews, Subcontractors, and Customers, on-time and on-budget. The Lead for these departments is responsible for ensuring quality standards for finished product, delivery schedules, and strengthening the Lean culture of the entire organization. As Lean Value Stream Lead, the associate is responsible for developing a cultural mindset of continuous improvement, eliminating wasteful steps, and establishing more efficient process flow through utilizing Lean tools such as 6S, Kanban, ARCI, SWIS, and Kaizen both in the physical space as well as with the flow of information. As Final Assembly, Quality Control, and Loading Lead, the associate is responsible for coordinating and directing the activities of Final Assembly, Quality Control, and Loading staff, ensuring company quality standards, safety protocol, loading operations, and daily communication updates to the Production Manager, Production Planning, Project Managers, and Field Services are consistently maintained.

Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While perform the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear.
The employee frequently is required to walk and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Responsibilities

Works with Loading Department to ensure all products for each job are available to load each day.
Directs Loading Staff through routine tasks and as needed To Do Lists and the Daily Installation Schedule.
Develop, implement and hold accountability for an AM/PM Loading /Facility Maintenance To Do List including routine agenda items as well as projects/assignments that come up.
Hold Loading staff accountable for the completion and delivery of daily Loading Lists.
Hold Loading staff accountable for the daily completion and follow through of the Loading White Board.
Creates/adjusts Loading List Template, SWIS and ARCI as needed.
Assists with loading when needed.
Participate in 45 and 90-day training/evaluations of new Loading Staff members.
Participate in weekly review/training meetings of new Loading Staff up through 90 days.
Attend Daily Production Meeting to understand all current jobs and Priorities.
Final Assemble product to a Ready to Load status.
Utilize FA QC Checklist for each product and verify standards have been met.
Confront staff when needed to maintain that our standards and practices are in compliance.
Correct any issues that are found to ensure QC compliance.
Call for Project QC when product has been completed, label product with FA/PM QC Compliance Label, relaying QC completion to Loader.
Develop respectful relationships across the company forgiving the past and moving forward with Lean process, improving focus ( 1st practice used: Ho’ Oponopono).
Hold nonjudgmental space for someone to share their thoughts and feelings regarding their work at Poyant, and then sharing what feels to be the most appropriate Lean tool to assist in Kaizen/Continuous Improvement.
Lead by example, work with a sense of continuous improvement down all avenues, communication, process, visual work, standardization…
Walk the Gemba at 9AM each weekday morning for 30 minutes.
Cataloging Lean Improvements and Requests.
Adhere to specific Gemba walk times, Mon 9:40am, T-F 9am for 30 minutes.
Help establish a schedule of Gemba attendees throughout the week.
Ensure Lean practices are utilized and sustained including: Companywide Kanban, Visual Tools, SWIS, ARCI, TPM, KPI Kaizen Events, Value Stream Mapping and Weekly Department/Work Cell Auditing Process.
Coordinate the elimination of wasteful steps in any presented process through consulting directly with the department specific staff.
Use the FA Department as a visible tool of continuous improvement through visual work and process improvements.
Maintain a running Lean To- Do List for all Lean projects, alongside the running Kaizen list.
Check in with all in-house staff prior to the Lean Monday hour, assisting in creating connections across departments and delivering needed tools and materials.
Present at Company meetings: Sharing Company KPIs for The Big 3: Rework, Indirect Labor, and Act vs Est Hours. Over time noticing trends and shifts relating to Lean improvements.
Present current Rework examples and what the Lean Driven Corrective Actions were.
Share Kaizen updates: Validated Kaizens and how the improvement will directly relate to reaching The Big 3 goals.
Share new Lean tools and how they might help Poyant grow positively.
Present to Production staff: Monthly TPM personnel change and reminder – ensure on-time completion.
Lean updates/requests effecting the shop floor.
Present to other departments as needed, sharing current Lean tools and process improvements available.
Research and test Lean methodologies learned through site visits, reading, videos, audio and in person training sessions.
Develop and share A3 for Lean Improvement with the Management Team.
Lead Management and Kaizen Team to set priorities and driving completion of Lean Initiatives.
Assist with Shop Floor layout and flow improvements.
Assist Production Management with the flow of specified work through the shop.
Back Up for Art, Paint and Production Departments.