3rd Shift Team Manager (10:00 pm to 7:00 am Monday to Friday)

Recycled Plastics Industries • Green Bay, WI

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Team Manager will enjoy the challenges of day-to-day operations along with providing leadership to hourly team members. Our Team Managers have small teams that rely on them to ensure they have the necessary skills, resources, and tools to achieve goals in the areas of Safety, Quality, Yield, and Productivity. Team Managers are involved in all day-to-day operations of our busy manufacturing facility, including, but not limited to, hiring, mentoring, performance & process improvement, production, quality, & safety.

Requirements

• Thorough understanding of safety and health laws, regulations, and policies.
• Committed to making positive changes, but remaining flexible and able to adapt
• Excellent communication skills. Must be able to communicate effectively with technicians and the management team.
• Willing to take on a broad range of responsibilities including coaching and managing people, processes, and tasks
• Basic understanding of Lean
• Demonstrate ability to multitask and to adapt to a quickly changing manufacturing environment
• Flexible and able to adapt to company growth and evolving responsibilities
• Willing to be a role model for work team behaviors and develop these on our teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Flexibility in working different shift schedules to include occasional weekends.
• MS Office Suite proficient and keyboarding skills
• Thorough understanding of raw materials, production processes, quality control, cost management, and other effective manufacturing and distribution techniques.
• College / Technical Degree and/or High School Diploma with relevant equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 2 (two) years of supervisory experience required

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of LEAN / Self Directed Work Team is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Embrace and lead a safety-first culture, understand (enforce) safety rules and contribute to the overall safety program through improvements, expectation setting, and role-modeling proper safe behaviors.
• Providing leadership for the team to help them meet and exceed operational goals.
• Guide teams in understanding customers’ quality expectations and ensure they strive for the best quality. Use and understand quality systems (Statistical Process Controls) and coach team to fully utilize the systems. Lead quality improvements.
• Encourage the team to ask questions and participate in activities that improve productivity. Coach and ensure they understand what needs to happen to meet productivity goals.
• Lead process by setting expectations regarding performance, behaviors, and results and hold team accountable. Ensure the team has the resources they need to deliver results.
• Understand Lean principles and coach the team on standard work, 5S, and the daily management system. Lead the team in basic continuous improvements such as a 5S event, development of standard work, or a Kaizen event.
• Embrace our efforts to be sustainable by encouraging the teams to recycle and maintain the cleanliness and integrity of their work areas.
• Mentor and coach up to 15 employees to guide behaviors and decision making daily with every course of action for yourself and your team. Address team issues and resolve problems timely. Hold all employees accountable for good decision-making and team support behaviors, confidently deals with performance issues as appropriate.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED