The Team Lead provides manufacturing expertise, support, and direction in their assigned area. The team lead assists the Supervisor in coordinating, facilitating, and motivating all assigned employees' activities to meet or exceed established High-5 metrics and goals including safety, quality, delivery, cost, lean initiatives, and efficiency. You will lead by example in safety, ethical standards, attendance, intensity, sense of urgency, team philosophy, initiative, quality assurance, standard work, 5-S, product knowledge, positive attitude, interpersonal communication skills, and professional presence. In this function, you will: Understand and meet all departmental safety objectives and goals. Ensure the assigned work area is clean, organized, and orderly per 5S standards. Receive work assignments from the supervisor and prioritize jobs based on the urgency of the order. Effectively communicate daily production goals to one's functional team. Work directly with the manufacturing team to ensure that customer orders are executed in a timely and efficient manner and that the most urgent orders are fulfilled first. Provide guidance and support to the manufacturing team, ensuring that they are continually made aware of all workplace goals surrounding production, safety, and quality. Support the on-the-job training and developing needs per individual, team, and product group. Serve as a resource in specific skills training as needed by developing employees in a multitude of areas. Consistently check the quality of all products to ensure that quality requirements are being met by the work team. Promote quality objectives among one's employees by clarifying quality standards and goals. Participate and assist in maintaining an atmosphere of continuous improvement and team efforts for accomplishing departmental and plant goals as 5S activities and kaizen events. Attend the required accountability meetings and production meetings. Measure and communicate team and individual performance to established expectations to include input and participation in the evaluation of process, product, and team skills. Perform data entry and other automated posting functions to support departmental needs using computer-based business systems. Work on projects and special assignments as required. Understand the metrics necessary for quality and production by collecting and evaluating production data including cycle time, green light time, parts output, material utilization, etc. Actively pursue self-development activities (i.e. course work, certificación, continuing education, additional training. Etc.)
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees