Production Team Lead

Elevate Aircraft Seating•Huntington Beach, CA

2d•$26 - $28•Onsite

About The Position

Since 2018, Elevate Aircraft Seating has been enhancing the passenger experience through innovative aircraft seat design and manufacturing. With locations in California, Washington, and Germany we are guided by creativity, collaboration, and a shared commitment to quality. We are looking for a skilled Production Team Lead to join our team in Huntington Beach, CA. This is an on-site position based in Huntington Beach, CA. We value teamwork, inclusivity, and continuous professional development, and we offer competitive benefits along with opportunities for growth. JOB SUMMARY The Production Team Lead is responsible for supporting repetitive production that mass-produce products of business class, first class, and economy class seats for commercial transport aircraft. The role supervises, teaches, guides, assists, and supports coworkers in the fabrication of parts and/or assemblies that are processed through production. The Production Team Lead must be able to work within the time constraints of the master production schedule and meet requirements dictated by the customer.

Requirements

Education: High School Diploma or GED required; equivalent years of relative experience or proven mechanical aptitude may be considered in lieu of a diploma or GED
Experience: 1 - 3+ years of direct experience
Other: Extended or irregular hours may be required.
Must be authorized to work in the United States.
For positions at an ITAR facility, must have U.S. Citizenship or hold Permanent Resident status.

Responsibilities

Promote cooperation and positive communication with coworkers
Act as a mentor to assigned team members in the growth and development of each of them professionally
Promote teamwork to seek established targets in the way of safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance indicators
Organize assigned production employees to help complete production units requiring torquing, bonding, riveting, edge sealing, etc.
Encourage and promote improvements to production in the areas of safety, quality, on time delivery, and cost
Active in the creation of daily standard work and responsible for the adherence of assigned team members to the developed standard work
Lead daily meetings with team members reviewing prior days actuals and todays plan
Always lead with a continuous improvement mentality and promote new ideas from within team members
Actively works to ensure team members are fully capable in performing the tasks assigned to them and needed to meet production schedule demand
Can effectively communicate issues on the production line to engineering, planning, or quality as needed
Ensure work is completed on time to meet company objectives & customer demand
Maintain safe and effective use of all machine and hand tools in production as well as a safe work environment and is responsible for ensuring a clean and safe work area is maintained
Understand the concept of utilizing work orders, recording lot numbers and the criticality of traceability
Ensure work orders and traceability books are maintained and completed as products are processed through the production areas
Report any defects to quality assurance and/or supervisor, as needed
Ensure products are built and assembled to the latest revision of released engineering drawings and specifications
Prepare and organize tools and parts for use in the manufacturing area
Requisition parts as needed from the stockroom
Maintain an adequate supply of tools and hardware supplies, as needed
Work with quality to communicate repetitive quality issues to the production team and works to problem solve the root cause of them
Work at different workstations as production needs require
Perform other duties as assigned