Lead

Anord Mardix•Columbia, SC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Flex is a diversified manufacturing partner 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. At Flex, employees thrive by living values of supporting each other, moving fast with discipline and purpose, and always doing the right thing. Through a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in career growth, and join the purpose to make great products that create value and improve people’s lives. This Lead role, located in Columbia, SC, reports to the Production Supervisor and is responsible for providing leadership and direction to groups of non-exempt employees.

Requirements

Typically requires an Associate’s Degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience.
6 years of related experience.
Serves as an expert/consultant in manufacturing line skills with other employees.
Demonstrates broad knowledge of manufacturing line techniques and may improve processes.
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees, and supervisors of the organization.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

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.