Team Leader, Paint - 1st Shift

AriensCoBrillion, WI
Onsite

About The Position

Our Brillion Team is looking for a motivated, high performing team lead for our Plant 1 paint department. This role involves leading area team members, ensuring adherence to standard work, creating, maintaining, auditing, and improving standard work. The Team Leader will also ensure team members' cycle time is at or below takt time, assist on the line if needed to meet daily production goals, and train new employees, transfers, and cross-training. Additionally, the role includes filling in for absent team members, problem-solving to find the root cause of issues, and demonstrating a good understanding of waste elimination, continuous improvement, safety, quality, productivity, and delivery. The Team Leader will be responsible for properly filling out production control charts and understanding the production control board, as well as effectively communicating with team members, supervisors, and other Ariens Company personnel.

Requirements

  • Minimum High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required
  • Clear understanding of Standard work, time observations, takt time, takt vs. actual, bar charts, standard work combination sheets, spaghetti diagrams
  • Proven understanding of 5 Key measures (policy deployment measures)
  • Training and communication skills
  • Understanding of Lean and 6S
  • Basic computer skills
  • Trained in TWI
  • Understands and has the ability to utilize the Ariens Company Standardized Problem Solving Process
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

  • Past leadership experience preferred
  • Additional education in lean, leadership, or manufacturing preferred
  • Become torque certified (training will be provided)

Responsibilities

  • Lead area team members
  • Adherence to standard work
  • Create, maintain, audit, and improve standard work
  • Ensure team members' cycle time is at or below takt time, including helping on the line if needed to meet daily production goals
  • Train new employees, transfers, and cross training
  • Fill in for team members on vacation or absent
  • Ability to problem solve and find the root cause of issues that prevent the cell from meeting daily production goals
  • Good understanding of waste elimination, continuous improvement, safety, quality, productivity, and delivery. Ability to identify waste and eliminate it
  • Properly filling out production control charts and good understanding of the production control board and its function
  • Ability to effectively communicate to team members, supervisors and other Ariens Company personnel

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance effective first day of employment
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plan
  • 401(k) match and profit-sharing plans
  • Life Insurance
  • Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
  • Short Term Disability
  • Parental Leave
  • Onsite Marketplace Care Partners at all locations
  • Paid holidays
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement and Apprenticeship Programs
  • Safety shoes and safety prescription glasses reimbursement
  • Employee Product Purchase Program
  • 50% Daycare discount Brillion Early Learning Center
  • 10% tuition discount at KinderCare Learning Centers nationwide Excludes Brillion Early Learning Center
  • Onsite health clinic with Bellin Health Brillion Campus Only
  • Nearsite & Urgent Care Clinic Options Brillion Campus Only
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