Lead-3

Flex•Austin, TX

10d

About The Position

The Lead coordinates department resources and supports manufacturing operations. The role provides ongoing formal and informal performance feedback, participates in process development and cost-improvement projects, assists with budget planning, and manages department expenses. The Lead communicates daily production plans and issues, coordinates across shifts, monitors material availability and production bottlenecks, alerts appropriate resources about downtime, and works with Test Support and Maintenance to resolve equipment problems. The role also tracks time for NPI, pre-production, and rework; maintains department communication boards; follows quality indicators; and serves as the primary contact for responding to scrap in any process step. The position has moderate impact, may influence multiple programs or areas, and may provide guidance to other nonexempt personnel.

Requirements

Typically requires an Associate’s Degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience.
Typically requires 4 years of related experience.
Broad knowledge of manufacturing line techniques and ability to serve as an expert or consultant in manufacturing line skills.
Ability to improve processes and apply new technologies and techniques.
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small-group situations to employees and supervisors.
Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret moderately complex instructions.
Ability to perform arithmetic with all units of measure and compute rates, ratios, and percentages, as well as draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to solve practical problems involving concrete variables where standardization is limited.
Ability to interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-form instructions.
Can perform analyses and work using some independent judgment; decisions affect the team.
Receives little to no instruction and requires little to no supervision.

Responsibilities

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