Machining Lead - Graveyard

BENCHMADE • Oregon City, OR

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Machining Lead is responsible for ensuring the most efficient work steps are being taken to achieve safety, quality, productivity, on time delivery and cost-effective production of our products within the Machining department. Their effort to produce this standard work is focused on personal performance, identifying, and solving both logistical manufacturing problems that occur in their respective work centers with staff, materials, and equipment. This role is responsible for working with operators and supporting departments to solve problems that allow for continuous improvement in safety, quality, productivity, on time delivery and cost-effective production of our products.

Requirements

• A High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• Ability to provide positive constructive feedback both within and between departments
• Understanding with ability to conduct maintenance and machine troubleshooting and repair
• Reading and GD&T understanding
• Strong ability to prioritize and adjust based on organizational needs
• Proven problem-solving skills of complex issues.
• Proven ability to collect and analyze root cause data and drive to a closed corrective action.
• Capable of providing timely and meaningful training to develop skills of other employees
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and team skills
• Sound decision making and time management skills.
• Strong understanding of product quality standards & requirements.
• Basic MS Office computer skills.
• Technical support experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience working in and leading initiatives within a “Lean” environment
• Strong problem solving/troubleshooting skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience in edged product manufacturing a plus

Responsibilities

• Monitor Area Output to desired goals and Metrics (Safety, Quality, Productivity, Delivery and Cost)
• Serves as primary problem solver to resolve issues and restore process control.
• Responsible for the process control and sustainability within respective work centers.
• Responsible for all R&D and Pilot jobs in area, ensuring full process documentation, production run-times, and any production issues are fed back to Manufacturing and Design Engineering. Upon completion, the process should be able to be run by all operators within the area (i.e., standard production)
• Work with Manufacturing Engineering to resolve any manufacturing issues
• Review current processes and drive continuous improvement through such activities as set-up reduction, speeds/feeds modifications, and tooling improvements
• Serve as primary trainer within the area
• Leads 6S activities within the area, ensuring organization and cleanliness standards meet or exceed standards and drives expectations to operators within area.
• Reviews new PCI’s for any issues
• Assist the operators with problems as they occur utilizing root cause analysis methodologies
• Familiar with all work centers to give effective advice
• Responsible for training in all respective work centers
• Follow and enforce all company safety standards/practices
• Assure that equipment is adequately maintained and safely operated
• Support all continuous improvement related activities / projects in all areas
• Balance the workflow to ensure the best and safe use of capacity and staff
• Aid in management of consumables
• Flexible and resourceful, capable of identifying and implementing actions in timely manner while understanding all associated risks involved.
• Support manufacturing process variation reduction and internal quality systems through use of quality tools and techniques to drive process and product improvements.
• Manage small to medium scale projects related to the production environment.
• Coordinate training of personnel on technical aspects of the job.
• Demonstrates leadership role in sharing knowledge with shop personnel.
• Facilitates the daily work assignments for operators to ensure production requirements meet performance targets for safety, quality, productivity, delivery, and cost.
• Coach team members to maximize their productivity.
• May participate in the interview/hiring process, as well as in disciplinary action and reviews. This role is not responsible for the direct management/supervision of the department employees.
• Support manufacturing process variation reduction and internal quality systems through use of quality tools and techniques to drive process and product improvements.
• Manage small to medium scale projects related to the production environment.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, age, disability or genetics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED