Lead

Flex•Austin, TX

34d

About The Position

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Requirements

Typically requires an Associate’s Degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience.
Typically requires 2 years of related experience.
Has awareness of Flex technologies/ techniques.
Demonstrates functional and/or process knowledge and participates in process.
Requires high level of competency related to function.
Demonstrates advanced technical skills.
Ability to read and comprehend and interpret moderately complex instructions.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure.
Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Responsibilities

Provide ongoing feedback on performance of individuals through both formal and informal evaluations.
Initiate and participate in process development and cost improvement projects.
Coordinate people resource requirements for the department.
Assist in department budget planning and manage department expenses.
Communicate daily plan and any production or customer service issues
Highlight material shortages, interface with Expediter/Purchasing on any part shortages
Recognize and monitor bottlenecks.
Report and alert resources concerning downtime.
Interface with Test Support/Maintenance on equipment problems.
Track time for NPI/Pre-production/re-work.
Communicate with opposite shift to ensure communication flow.
Update department communication boards.
Follow quality indicators.
Stop and alert if predefined indicators are below target.
Primary contact for response to situations where scrap is occurring in any process step.