About This Role
This role leads the production floor daily, ensuring safety, quality, cost, and delivery goals are met. It involves building a team that takes pride in its work and suits a hands-on leader who can solve problems quickly and bring out the best in their team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the floor by setting daily production priorities based on customer demand, schedule, staffing, and available resources, and communicate them clearly through daily production meetings
- Own the metrics by monitoring performance and making sure department goals for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost are met
- Put the right people in the right places by assigning employees by workload, skill level, and qualifications, and make good use of labor, equipment, materials, tooling, and floor space
- Build and develop the team by tracking attendance, performance, and training, coaching, giving feedback, and supporting cross-training
- Solve problems with partners by working with Quality on defects, rework, scrap, and NCRs, and with Maintenance on equipment issues and preventive maintenance
- Drive continuous improvement by promoting Lean, cutting waste, improving flow, and making sure corrective actions are put in place and sustained
- Keep standards high by making sure work instructions, safety procedures, and production, labor, and downtime reporting are followed and accurate, and keeping the work area clean and organized
- Support growth by helping with new product launches, process changes, equipment installations, and production transfers
Requirements
- 3–5 years of manufacturing or production experience
- High school diploma or GED
- Experience in a fast-paced production environment
- Experience with production scheduling, manpower planning, and meeting production targets
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, 5S, and continuous improvement
- Ability to read production schedules, work instructions, drawings, and basic manufacturing documentation
- Solid understanding of production metrics: safety, quality, delivery, productivity, efficiency, scrap, and downtime
- Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Office and manufacturing/ERP systems
- Flexibility to work different hours, weekends, or shifts as business needs require
- Ability to work in a physically demanding environment and spend long periods on the production floor, wearing the required PPE
Nice to have:
- Previous supervisor, lead, or team-lead experience
- Technical training or certifications in welding, fabrication, or manufacturing
- Experience with quality systems, work instructions, and corrective actions
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