Lead-3

Flex•Austin, TX

About The Position

The Lead serves as a manufacturing-line skills expert and consultant to other employees. The role supports department performance, production flow, quality, equipment, staffing, and cost improvement, and may provide guidance to other nonexempt personnel. The position typically requires an associate’s degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience, along with four years of related experience. The employee receives little to no instruction and requires little to no supervision. The role has moderate impact and may influence multiple programs or areas; decisions affect the team. Work takes place in an environment with moving mechanical parts and moderate noise, with occasional exposure to repetitive motion, toxic or caustic chemicals, and electrical-shock risk. Overtime and second- or third-shift assignments may occasionally be required.

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 the ability to improve processes.
Ability to effectively present information one-on-one and in small-group settings to employees and supervisors.
Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret moderately complex instructions.
Ability to perform arithmetic with all units of measure, compute rates, ratios, and percentages, and draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to solve practical problems involving varied concrete conditions and limited standardization.
Ability to interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-based instructions.
Ability to work with little to no instruction or supervision.
Regularly stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and lift or move up to 10 pounds; occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds.
Frequently handle small components; occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk and hear.
Required vision abilities include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and adjustment of focus.

Responsibilities

Provide ongoing formal and informal feedback on individuals’ performance.
Initiate and participate in process-development and cost-improvement projects.
Coordinate department people-resource requirements.
Assist with department budget planning and manage department expenses.
Communicate the daily plan and production or customer-service issues.
Highlight material shortages and coordinate with Expediting and Purchasing on part shortages.
Recognize and monitor bottlenecks; report and alert resources about downtime.
Coordinate with Test Support and Maintenance regarding equipment problems.
Track time for NPI, pre-production, and rework.
Communicate with the opposite shift to maintain information flow.
Update department communication boards.
Monitor quality indicators and stop and alert others when predefined indicators are below target.
Serve as the primary contact for responding to scrap occurring at any process step.
Serve as a manufacturing-line skills expert and consultant to other employees.
Apply manufacturing-line techniques and new technologies or techniques, and contribute to process improvements.
Provide guidance to other nonexempt personnel, as needed.