Team Lead-Weld 1st Shift

Twin City Fan Companies•Brookings, SD

19d

About The Position

The Team Lead-Weld supports the Value Stream Leader in coordinating production activities, employee development, quality, safety, maintenance, and continuous improvement. The role ensures scheduled deliverables are produced safely and on time through effective use of people, equipment, and materials, and works in the department as needed for up to 80% of the time to maintain workflow. The Team Lead-Weld also models team engagement and morale and is expected to act in accordance with Twin City Fan’s Core Values and ISO-9000 procedures.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
At least 2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
Basic knowledge of shop math, hand tools, power tools, and fan knowledge.
Basic ability to read shop orders and blueprints and use a tape measure.
Ability to read and interpret policies, procedures, work instructions, and standards.
Ability to communicate verbally with coworkers productively.
Ability to lead and direct the work of others.
Ability to work as a team member toward overall company objectives.
Ability to maintain confidentiality of employee information, including performance, illness, investigations, and personal information.
Interpersonal skills in time management, attendance, accountability, ethical decision-making, customer focus, and working effectively with others.
Ability to meet expectations in safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency and understand and promote company KPI goals and core values.
Ability to continuously lift or move 25 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.
Ability to occasionally pull up to 100 pounds using a wheeled pallet jack.
Ability to continuously stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach above shoulder height, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk, and hear.

Responsibilities

Assist with department training plans, progress tracking, and cross-training to increase flexibility and provide full coverage.
Ensure quality checks and paperwork are completed before products leave the department.
Support lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles, including 5S, Visual Factory improvements, and changeover/setup reductions.
Maintain clean working conditions, open aisles, and good housekeeping.
Identify critical value-stream issues, communicate them to Operations management, and champion their resolution.
Communicate relevant information daily to Value Stream Leaders.
Inform Maintenance of work orders through MMS and coordinate maintenance activities with department requirements and schedules.
Ensure safe and timely production of scheduled deliverables through effective use of people, equipment, and materials.
Assist the Value Stream Leader with employee evaluations and discipline, Corrective Action Request responses and root-cause solutions, daily metrics, and annual performance evaluations.
Identify and correct unsafe acts or conditions in the department and throughout the plant.
Assist employees in diagnosing machinery and equipment malfunctions.
Participate in Gemba and prepare the LDMS board as needed.
Assist in creating and updating standard work instructions.
Work in the department as needed, up to 80% of the time, to maintain workflow.
Act as a certified First Responder when trained.
Apply ISO-9000 system procedures and ensure compliance.
Model team engagement and morale and act in accordance with Twin City Fan Core Values.