Production Shop Lead
About The Position
The Production Shop Lead is a functional leadership role and the lead resource for team members, providing knowledge, experience, support, and advice. The role requires knowledge of proper team procedures and responsibility for ensuring compliance. The lead may share industry techniques for using tools and equipment and recommend ways to improve production quality and speed. The Production Shop Lead produces quality products to precise specifications within time constraints, facilitates training, and ensures the team meets or exceeds production and quality expectations. The role operates and maintains production machinery, prepares tooling and jobs for other fabricators, and may perform general warehouse duties. It also oversees production paperwork, inspections, and safety procedures, and recommends improvements to inspection processes, equipment, safety, and operations.
Requirements
- Able to operate more than one type of machine or use multiple fabrication techniques.
- Able to motivate and train other operators.
- Detail orientation.
- Ability to multitask.
- Sense of urgency and strong work ethic.
- Creativity and innovation.
- Communication skills.
- Process improvement and best practices.
Responsibilities
- Produce quality products to precise specifications within time constraints.
- Facilitate training and ensure the team meets or exceeds production and quality expectations.
- Communicate production information to the appropriate individuals.
- Set up and operate production machinery, including CNC saws, lathes, milling machines, drills, shapers, boring mills, and grinders, to fabricate and repair parts and products.
- Maintain equipment; set up tooling, jigs, and fixtures; and prepare jobs for other fabricators.
- Perform general warehouse duties when required.
- Complete paperwork for Work Orders, Transfer Orders, and Shipments, and route it to the appropriate locations.
- Ensure dimensional and visual part inspections are performed properly and recommend improvements to inspection processes and equipment.
- Instruct the team on safety procedures, perform safety checks, and ensure Lock Out, Tag Out is properly performed.
- Notify the appropriate individuals of compromising safety issues and recommend improvements in safety, processes, and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
