Lead Manufacturing Engineer (1st Shift)
About The Position
Stefanini Group is hiring a Lead Manufacturing Engineer (1st Shift) in Dublin, VA. This role involves people leadership, focusing on mentoring, coaching, and coordinating teams, managing daily staffing needs, payroll, timekeeping, and performance management. The position also leads safety activities, quality checks, and daily team meetings, driving process improvement initiatives. The Lead Manufacturing Engineer has overall responsibility for production safety, delivery, quality, cost, environmental impact, people management, and on-time performance for their department or area. They supervise, mentor, coach, and coordinate teams, including direct staff and support functions, and approve time reporting to meet Manufacturing Operations goals. This role ensures compliance with company and contractual policies, rules, regulations, OSHA, safety, environmental, and health standards, while supporting the team in compliance. They manage staffing needs and concerns, including safety, ergonomics, overtime, absenteeism, and discipline. The position leads Lean activities, identifies waste, and promotes continuous improvement using various Lean Manufacturing tools, and initiates cross-functional feedback for problem-solving.
Requirements
- 2 years plus of experience in a leadership/supervisory role
- Proficiency with MS office suite with emphasis on Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerBi
Nice To Haves
- Associate Degree or higher
- 3 to 5 years experience in a manufacturing/warehouse environment in a unionized manufacturing environment.
- Lean experience and/or Six Sigma Certification
Responsibilities
- People leader responsibilities: focus on mentoring, coaching and coordination
- Manage staffing needs on a daily basis
- Payroll and time keeping
- Performance management
- Lead and manage safety activities
- Daily management of quality checks
- Daily team meetings
- Process Improvement initiatives and efforts
- Overall responsibility for production safety, delivery, quality, cost, environmental, people and on-time performance for the department/area
- Supervises, mentors, coaches and coordinate teams (direct staff & support functions) and approve time-reporting for teams in an accountable manner for meeting Manufacturing Operations goals and objectives, both driving positive environment while promoting employee's ideas and suggestions
- Complies & enforces Company and contractual policies, rules of conduct and regulations including OSHA, safety, environmental, and health and supports team in compliance with the same
- Manages staffing needs and concerns including but not limited to safety, ergonomics, overtime, absenteeism, discipline
- Leading Lean activities in assigned areas of responsibility, identifying waste and promoting continuous improvement.
- Initiates cross functional feedback for problem solving
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
