Team Leader - Area 1 - 2nd shift

AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing•Newton, NC

About The Position

The Team Leader supports and sets up all machines in Area 1. The role coordinates customer and supplier containment activities, machine setups, setup schedules, maintenance, and machine runoffs. It also contributes to budgeting, cost and improvement targets, and new-product program and cell launches. The Team Leader leads and participates in continuous improvement, corrective action, quality assurance, problem-solving, and sorting activities. The role also supports autonomous maintenance, team knowledge-sharing, error-proofing, and equipment or machining-process design where applicable.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED with courses in industrial or mechanical technologies, industrial maintenance, or post-secondary technical training; equivalent combinations of education and on-the-job experience are also accepted.
  • Career Readiness Certificate.

Nice To Haves

  • Three to five years of experience in machine technology or operations and routine maintenance.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate customer and supplier activities, including containment.
  • Set up two technologies within established time-study parameters.
  • Create and install CNC programs.
  • Coordinate setup activities using the department schedule.
  • Participate in machine runoffs.
  • Coordinate departmental maintenance activities and open work orders.
  • Perform routine maintenance tasks.
  • Develop plans and drive improvements to achieve budget targets (CIMS).
  • Participate in the budgeting process.
  • Participate in program and cell launches of new products and prototypes.
  • Lead and participate in continuous improvement, including planning and implementing corrective actions.
  • Lead cell-level quality process assurance.
  • Act on improvement suggestions.
  • Participate in defining autonomous maintenance activities, including daily pre-operational inspections.
  • Identify ways to enhance and share team knowledge through communication.
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of error-proofing (Poke-a-yoke).
  • Contribute to equipment design, if applicable.
  • Identify appropriate machining processes, speeds, and feeds for jobs, if applicable.
  • Identify repetitive failures and implement corrective actions based on failure analyses, if applicable.
  • Lead sorting activities in-house or at customer locations.
  • Troubleshoot and solve problems involving maintenance repairs.
  • Lead a problem-solving team.
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