Production Team Lead

Since 2018, Elevate Aircraft Seating has been enhancing the passenger experience through innovative aircraft seat design and manufacturing. With locations in California, Washington, and Germany we are guided by creativity, collaboration, and a shared commitment to quality.

We are looking for a skilled Production Team Lead to join our team in Huntington Beach, CA. This is an on-site position based in Huntington Beach, CA. We value teamwork, inclusivity, and continuous professional development, and we offer competitive benefits along with opportunities for growth.

JOB SUMMARY

The Production Team Lead is responsible for supporting repetitive production that mass-produce products of business class, first class, and economy class seats for commercial transport aircraft. The role supervises, teaches, guides, assists, and supports coworkers in the fabrication of parts and/or assemblies that are processed through production. The Production Team Lead must be able to work within the time constraints of the master production schedule and meet requirements dictated by the customer.

SUMMARY OF JOB DUTIES - Essential Functions (Other duties and projects may be assigned or requested.)

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• Promote cooperation and positive communication with coworkers
• Act as a mentor to assigned team members in the growth and development of each of them professionally
• Promote teamwork to seek established targets in the way of safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance indicators
• Organize assigned production employees to help complete production units requiring torquing, bonding, riveting, edge sealing, etc.
• Encourage and promote improvements to production in the areas of safety, quality, on time delivery, and cost
• Active in the creation of daily standard work and responsible for the adherence of assigned team members to the developed standard work
• Lead daily meetings with team members reviewing prior day’s “actuals” and today’s “plan”
• Always lead with a “continuous improvement” mentality and promote new ideas from within team members
• Actively works to ensure team members are fully capable in performing the tasks assigned to them and needed to meet production schedule demand
• Can effectively communicate issues on the production line to engineering, planning, or quality as needed
• Ensure work is completed on time to meet company objectives & customer demand
• Maintain safe and effective use of all machine and hand tools in production as well as a safe work environment and is responsible for ensuring a clean and safe work area is maintained
• Understand the concept of utilizing work orders, recording lot numbers and the criticality of traceability
• Ensure work orders and traceability books are maintained and completed as products are processed through the production areas
• Report any defects to quality assurance a