Lead Manufacturing Associate

The Hillman Group, Inc.•Tempe, AZ

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Schedule: 6:00 am - 4:30 pm (Monday - Thursday) Exemplifies team expectations for operational requirements in a manufacturing and distribution environment. A lead is a primary resource in meeting operational goals in productivity, quality, customer satisfaction, and training for the department. Serves as a back up to manufacturing supervisor and is a high-level inventory support. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. Employees are expected and encouraged to participate in safety and health program activities including immediately reporting hazards, immediately reporting unsafe work practices and incidents to supervisors, wearing required personal protective equipment, and participating in and supporting safety committee activities.

Requirements

High School diploma or GED equivalent is required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Mechanical aptitude and attention to detail required.
Must demonstrate ability to work from verbal and written instructions.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a member of a team to meet production goals.
Demonstrates leadership through strength in core competencies.
Operates basic material handling equipment up to and including forklift.
May be required to use order picker, pallet jack and/or various hand-tools.
Functional near, far and peripheral vision and functional hearing required.
Light, lifting up to 50 lbs.

Nice To Haves

Ten plus years manufacturing/distribution/assembly experience is typical and preferred.

Responsibilities

Leads efforts to resolve quality barriers and addresses non-conforming material issues.
Serves as a liaison with manufacturing resources to coordinate efforts in inspection of products, assemblies, or machines to ensure that they meet requirements.
Uses measuring devices, functional gages, and a variety of basic hand tools to perform work and evaluate quality.
Leads team 5S activities and serves as authority in maintaining a clean work environment; uses available resources responsibly to accomplish jobs without waste.
Accountable for Outgoing and End of Line Audit results, addresses them with team, and aligns resources to eliminate potential errors.
Processes interdepartmental and site level bulk and small storage handling needs.
Monitors, tracks, and serves as a process and equipment pace setter in meeting and exceeding productivity requirements.
Accurately completes a wide range of departmental metric tracking and paperwork.
Completion of Inventory transactions with inventory analysis comparing to BOMs.
Uses Job Hazard Analysis as a safety training resource and collaborates with Manufacturing Engineering and Supervision to maintain them.
Reports inconsistencies (i.e., inventory, process) and operating barriers to supervisor and other exempt levels as required. Is a direct resource to influence and define resolution paths.