Welding Team Leader

Behlen Mfg Co.•Columbus, NE

16d•Onsite

About The Position

Summary: Team Leaders are responsible for leading production teams to complete their assigned work, ensuring compliance with safety protocols, Behlen Global Values, standard work, and other team requirements and controls.

Requirements

Demonstrated ability to build and lead a team to achieve stated goals
High attention to personal and team accountability
Strong interpersonal skills, with emphasis on integrity, collaboration, and open and honest communication
Commitment to personal development for self and team members, to build skills
Experience in a manufacturing environment, and comfortable working on a shop floor with expected levels of noise, forklift traffic, physical effort, etc.
Good written and oral communication skills
Must be willing and able to work reasonable daily and weekend overtime
Must be able to stand, walk, or sit for extended periods of time, depending on the assigned work area

Responsibilities

Maintain high 6S compliance to keep work areas clean, organized, and free of clutter
Manage “delivery wheel” to produce and deliver required product on time and in compliance with quality specifications and reporting requirements
Manage team to achieve high schedule attainment against firm schedule
Manage labor utilization and efficiency to control labor cost and achieve output goals
Manage material flow into, within, and out of your department
Utilize equipment, tooling, and hand tools safely and efficiently
Meet quality requirements
Adhere to standard work and other instructions
Coach Partners in Progress for personal development, and also when their individual performance falls short of our Global Values and delivery expectations
Cooperate with Team Leaders on other shifts and in other departments
Cross train partners on your team to ensure high flexibility, where applicable.
Ensure Partners in Progress are available to other departments when production goals call for labor to be re-allocated.
Ensure maintenance tasks (e.g., operator preventive maintenance, or OPM) that are assigned to your team are performed and reported as planned
Learn Lean tools and practices, and keep a mindset of continuous improvement
Support continuous improvement activities, such as kaizens, AIM projects, CapEx projects, etc.
Communicate effectively up and down, to ensure your team and your Manufacturing Manager are informed of relevant information
Perform work assigned to your team as needed, in addition to Team Leader responsibilities
Complete work order transactions and other reporting in an accurate and timely manner
Make sure all quality information and audits are completed (daily, weekly, monthly)
Schedule work stations and product mix for department
Actively participate in all production related meetings that impact your department
Ensure all safety accident reporting and First Aid kits are turned in to the Nurse monthly
Practice safe working habits and follow safety policy, procedures, and Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
Ability to work towards continuous improvement of product quality and ISO-9001:2015.