Punch Pack Lead

Shaw Industries•Ringgold, GA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Shaw Industries is looking for a Lead in the Punch and Pack Department to lead production associates as they create high performing, customer-centric flooring products. Work with a team of hourly associates to achieve targets established for safety, service, quality, cost, and continuous improvement. Reports to the Production Supervisor. Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18,000 associates worldwide.

Responsibilities

Drive efforts to achieve and maintain world-class production, quality and safety metrics.
Use critical path thinking to assure production activities are in compliance with company policies and procedures to include environmental and safety compliance.
Directly empower all team members and support associates to achieve personal, plant and company goals.
Supports safe behavior/awareness programs and provide a strong safety presence on the plant floor
Assist the Production Supervisors in the daily production of quality luxury vinyl in the safest, most efficient and productive manner, by utilizing established methods and procedures.
Assist in the training and assessment of new hires/transfers to the department. Ensuring that they are able to perform their jobs as outlined in the applicable job descriptions.
Insure product is always being manufactured to the proper specifications.
Assist the Production Supervisor in waste reduction and productivity efforts.
Assist the production associates to optimize productivity and continuous improvement of his or her assigned area, including recognizing and troubleshooting problems in the manufacturing process.
Communicate between shifts to insure proper handoff to the following shift
Lead by example as a positive, team-oriented employee.