Paint Team Lead

Dicastal North America Inc.•Greenville, MI

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Team Leader is responsible for ensuring employees are working safely while production and quality requirements are met within their respective department. This role involves guiding and managing a team to meet key performance indicators (KPIs) and other performance metrics, fostering a culture of safety, quality, teamwork, accountability, and respect. The Team Leader will coach, train, and develop team members, ensuring clear communication of expectations and thorough onboarding. They will also be responsible for ensuring compliance with safety guidelines, company standards, and production goals, while continuously identifying opportunities for improvement in processes, equipment, and resources. This role requires critical thinking, problem-solving, and the ability to analyze shift data to compile reports and ensure operational efficiencies.

Requirements

High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
2-3 years of experience in manufacturing leadership, coaching, development and/or training role.
Knowledge, management, and improvement of automotive production and/or quality process.
Production planning, MSP, reporting.
Application of control plan, controls administration, operational efficiencies.
Ability to follow instructions, delegate and interpret and enforce policies and procedures.
Familiarity with ADP, Attendance Counts, DMS, Beacon, Microsoft Suite, and Outlook.

Responsibilities

Ensures employees receive training and understand all safety requirements and procedures related to their work. Enforces personal protective equipment requirements.
Departmental daily safety spot check.
Guides and manages team to ensure KPI’s and other performance metrics are met.
Understands the scope, impacts and intricacies of the on-shift production process.
Communicates clearly and effectively across all levels of the organization.
Fosters and develops a culture of safety, quality, teamwork, accountability and respect.
Employs strong leadership skills in management of team.
Coaches, trains and develops team.
Clearly communicates expectations and ensures thorough onboarding of new employees, including ensuring an understanding of safe operating procedures.
Ensures team’s compliance with safety guidelines, company standards and production goals.
Makes a working contribution to team’s success and holds the team accountable to meet KPI’s and other objectives in a timely manner.
Continuously identifies opportunities for improvement through assessment of team’s control point process, variables, equipment, resources, efficiencies, methods, challenges and strengths.
Gathers, sorts, analyzes and filters shift data and compiles reports based on results.
Ensures operational efficiencies are met, coordinates preventative maintenance and repairs in conjunction with maintenance according to production plan, addresses concerns quickly and continuously evaluates equipment and processes.
Manages a safe and clean work environment.
Educates and directs team members on the use of control points, equipment and resources, ensuring compliance.
Thinks critically and utilizes various problem solving, leadership and analytics methods to address challenges.
Works closely with Supervisor, EHS, HR, Quality and others to ensure all parties are informed and in compliance and reports incidents or accidents immediately.
Uses software systems to manage team’s schedules, hours, performance and disciplinary actions, create reports and perform safety and layered process audits.