Warehouse Team Lead

Twin City Fan & Blower•Brookings, SD

84d•$25 - $30•Onsite

About The Position

The Warehouse Team Lead will assist with department training plans, progress, and cross-training efforts to increase flexibility and ensure coverage. This role ensures quality checks and paperwork are complete before product leaves the department, supports lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles, and assists with 5S improvements, Visual Factory Improvements, and Changeover/Setup Reductions. The Team Lead ensures employees maintain a clean working environment, maintains a Continuous Improvement mindset within the production teams, and highlights critical issues of the value stream to the Operations management team, championing them to resolution. They communicate daily relevant information to Value Stream Leaders and inform maintenance of any work orders through MMS, coordinating maintenance activities with department requirements and schedules. The role ensures the safe and timely production of scheduled deliverables by effectively utilizing people, equipment, and material. The Team Lead assists the Value Stream Leader with employee activities, including evaluation and discipline; Corrective Action Request responses and seeking out root cause solutions; collecting Daily Metrics and annual performance evaluations. They identify and correct unsafe acts or conditions, assist employees with diagnosing machinery malfunctions, actively participate in Gemba, and prepare the LDMS board as needed. Additionally, they assist with the creation and update of standard work instructions, work in the department as needed (up to 80% of time) to maintain the flow of work, act as a certified First Responder when trained, apply ISO-9000 system procedures and ensure compliance, and act as a role model for team engagement and morale, living by TCF Core Values.

Requirements

Basic knowledge of shop math, hand tools, power tools, and fan knowledge.
Basic ability to read shop orders, read blueprints, and read a tape measure.
Understand and promote company KPI goals and core values.
Meet expectations in Safety, Quality, Delivery and Efficiency.
Interpersonal skills in efficient time management, good attendance, take/accept accountability, make ethical decisions, be customer focused, and work effectively with others.
High school diploma or GED (required)
2+ year in a manufacturing environment
Ability to read and interpret documents, such as policies and procedures, work instructions and standards.
Ability to communicate verbally with co-workers in a productive manner.
Ability to lead and direct the work of others.
Ability to work as a team member to achieve overall Company objectives.
Ability to maintain confidentiality of employee information. This includes, but is not limited to: performance, illness, investigations and personal information.

Nice To Haves

Based on department, may be required to operate a forklift, overhead crane, and electric pallet jack.

Responsibilities

Assist with department training plan, progress, and cross training efforts to increase flexibility and ensure 100% coverage
Ensure Quality checks and paperwork is complete before product leaves department.
Support lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles
Assist with 5S improvements, Visual Factory Improvements, and Changeover/Setup Reductions
Ensures employees maintain a clean working environment to include open aisles and good housekeeping as needed.
Maintain Continuous Improvement mindset within the production teams
Highlight critical issues of value stream to the Operations management team and champion to resolution
Communicates daily all relevant information to Value Steam Leaders
Informs maintenance of any work orders through MMS. In conjunction with Maintenance personnel, coordinates maintenance activities with department requirements and schedules.
Ensures the safe and timely production of scheduled deliverables by effectively utilizing people, equipment, and material.
Assists the Value Stream Leader with employee activities, including evaluation and discipline; Corrective Action Request responses and seeking out root cause solutions; collecting Daily Metrics and annual performance evaluations.
Identifies and corrects unsafe acts or conditions, both in primary duties within department and throughout the plant.
Assists employees with diagnosing malfunctions in machinery and equipment.
Actively participates in Gemba and prepares LDMS board as needed.
Assists with the creation and update of standard work instructions.
Works in the department as needed, up to 80% time, to maintain the flow of work.
Acts as a certified First Responder when so trained
Applies ISO-9000 system procedures and ensures compliance.
Act a role model for team engagement and team morale
Act, Live and Behave by TCF Core Values.