Team Lead (Aluminum Shell Room) - Day Shift - Ogden, UT
About The Position
A Team Lead, in addition to performing normal duties in their respective job classification, participates in directing and supervising department operations while ensuring throughput, productivity, cycle time, and quality goals are met. This role involves significant employee interaction, including development, accountability, training, and disciplinary actions. The Team Lead is also responsible for planning work, ensuring process control, supporting continuous improvement initiatives, and maintaining lean practices within the department. The position requires timely reporting of issues impacting productivity, quality, or safety, and may include limited management of employees handling hazardous waste, requiring annual comprehensive hazardous waste training.
Requirements
- Ability to work in a production environment
- Understand and adopt lean manufacturing principles
- Ability to motivate co-workers
- Previous manufacturing experience
- Able to read and comprehend English
- High School Diploma or GED
- Able to multi-task under pressure
- Good organizational skills
- Detail oriented
- Ability to prioritize
- Team player
- Willing to continuously learn
- Able to trust his/her own judgment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Positive attitude
- Safety conscious
- Computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Internet, etc.)
Nice To Haves
- 2-year degree in business or related technical field highly preferred
- 2-4 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment
- Basic understanding of Six Sigma principles
Responsibilities
- Participate in directing and supervising department operations while ensuring throughput, productivity, cycle time and quality goals are met
- Assist in employee development and advancement through the grade system
- Ensure hard starts / hard stops at break time, lunch time, and shift change
- Ensure personnel adhere and work to procedures as required
- Ensure employees are in compliance with company policy
- Participate in hiring, scheduling, directing and developing employees
- Participate in disciplinary action up to and including termination when necessary
- Responsible for providing on the job training for employees
- Instill safe work behaviors in employees in team
- Train in use of PPE and safe work practices
- Identify and report on unsafe conditions in a timely manner
- Participate in safety meetings
- Prioritize and assign work to meet daily goals: Throughput, ESH, Productivity, VC/ESH
- Plans efficiently around key activities in assigned work department
- Effectively utilizes employee skill sets to complete work tasks efficiently
- Meet internal/external customer requirements to deliver product on time and within specification
- Proactively cooperate between departments and share resources when needed to meet plant goals and objectives
- Ensure employees are updating process control (SPC) charts
- Responsible for the preventative maintenance of machines within department
- Supports initiatives to reduce scrap and rework and actively supports continuous improvement initiatives
- Maintain lean practices within department
- Reports in a timely manner all issues having a negative impact on productivity such as absenteeism, unacceptable work behaviors and performance
- Reports in a timely manner any issue that has an adverse impact on meeting production, quality, or safety requirements
- Responsible for calibration of instruments within department
- Actively supports all management policies, programs, and procedures
- Performs other duties of greater or lesser complexity as required by the position or assigned by supervision
- Manage employees managing hazardous waste (if applicable, with required annual training)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
