Team Lead

Calderys Group•Lowellville, OH

25d

About The Position

HWI has an opportunity to join its Production Team as a Lead Manufacturing Production Technician. The Team Lead coordinates and leads the daily workflow of Manufacturing Production Technicians, prioritizing employee safety and health. This hands-on leader performs production work while managing shift scheduling and production. The role directs the production team, adjusts production to schedules and equipment conditions, ensures standard operating procedures and quality standards are followed, and coordinates with Maintenance to optimize production and minimize downtime. The role also maintains production documentation and performance indicators, leads safety and continuous-improvement activities, supports production-related customer complaint resolution, and develops team members through coaching and training.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Two to five years of experience in a highly automated production environment.
Experience working in a flexible, team-based Production/Manufacturing environment.
Practical and pragmatic experience in Continuous Improvement or Lean Manufacturing activities.
Basic computer skills, including MS Office.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree in a technical or manufacturing field.
Two to five years of managing a production shift or team, including conflict resolution, providing feedback, goal setting, and scheduling responsibility.
Previous experience with ERP systems; Oracle is preferred.

Responsibilities

Coordinate shift scheduling and allocate resources appropriately.
Adjust and operate machinery, anticipate and perform line changeovers, and adapt production to schedule or equipment needs.
Coordinate with Maintenance to ensure adherence to the maintenance schedule and minimize downtime.
Ensure required quality checks are performed and actions are taken based on results.
Ensure the team performs first-level and autonomous maintenance.
Prepare technical documentation on process phases, methods, and cycle times; document process changes in SOP manuals; participate in sequence definition, cycle-time calculation, and analysis of production work phases; and share cycle-time data with internal teams.
Maintain performance indicators, including OEE, adherence to plan, changeover time, and waste, and engage the team in continuous improvement.
Promote safety through example and accountability; reinforce safety rules covering LOTOTO, machine guarding, working at height, and electrical safety; update safe operating procedures; identify, report, and correct at-risk situations and behaviors; lead root-cause analysis of incidents and near misses; communicate safety results; and drive safety improvement projects.
Apply 5S principles, participate in plant-wide 5S activities, and propose improvements to housekeeping and organization.
Apply Lean Manufacturing principles to eliminate waste and non-value-added activity and lead Lean improvement projects.
Own resolution of production-related customer complaints through root-cause analysis and problem solving.
Develop team members’ competencies and modify, update, and train the team on standard operating procedures.