Production Team Lead (WCC) - Admin

Mold-Rite Plastics•Plattsburgh, NY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Work Cell Coach oversees the day-to-day operation of an assigned Work Cell and is responsible for its overall operations. The role may require escalating issues to supporting departments, such as Maintenance and Automation or the Tool Room, or to the shift Supervisor. The position reports directly to the Supervisor of the employee’s shift. The role supports safe, compliant, and efficient production; monitors cell and machine readiness and performance; develops operator skills; and helps maintain quality, food safety, and continuous improvement. The Work Cell Coach also supports company initiatives and coordinates with relevant teams to address operational issues.

Requirements

Associate degree or relevant experience.
Previous experience supervising employees in a manufacturing, military, or industrial environment.
Ability to challenge the status quo to facilitate continuous improvement.
Ability to collaborate across roles and diverse groups and gather and share feedback.
Ability to stay current in best practices and continuously learn.
Ability to plan and manage routine maintenance.
Strong communication, presentation, planning, and organizational skills, including the ability to multitask and prioritize.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Strategic thinking skills.
Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, reports, and memos; write correspondence and reports; and present information effectively in one-on-one situations, to supervisors, and in small-group settings.
Ability to perform arithmetic using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, and compute rates, ratios, and percentages.
Ability to understand and carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Ability to deal with employee-related problems and determine why a specific machine is not meeting rate.

Responsibilities

Support a culture in which employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, suggest improvements, and participate in implementing solutions.
Identify safety gaps, initiate corrective actions, understand and correct hazards, and adhere to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S requirements.
Create a work environment where risks are managed with appropriate urgency and employees are empowered to understand and embrace their responsibilities.
Support and ensure compliance with and execution of the company vision and plant initiatives, including ISO, TPM, and GMP.
Perform a cell walk at shift exchange with the previous Work Cell Coach.
Ensure the labor density plan is followed and review machine downtime to optimize labor assignments.
Ensure machine and cell readiness for production and approve production start-up.
Inspect one shot per operator per day with the operator and one shot per operator per day independently to verify compliance, effectiveness, and product quality.
Conduct Gemba walks every two hours and document results on MDI.
Ensure Operator AMs are completed; hold weekly TPM meetings and maintain Found vs. Fixed records.
Ensure proper machine shutdown for end-of-run, no-operation, and holiday shutdowns.
Perform assigned LPAs.
Investigate production anomalies, including pulls, downtime, Red Screen, HrxHr, and labor variance, and proactively reduce scrap.
Communicate and escalate operational issues to the shift Supervisor.
Lead, support, and develop operator skill levels in the work cell to improve performance.
Manage the scrap waste stream and drive scrap reduction within the cell.
Assist with machine breakdowns and escalate issues to support groups.
Monitor and verify that finished goods and raw materials entering and leaving the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
Comply with company food safety and quality assurance procedures.
Report product or process failures that could affect food safety to the location’s Food Safety Team Leader and submit an appropriate incident report.