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Line Leader

Duracell
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Apr 2025

About the role

As a Line Lead, you will be responsible for realizing the objectives within your area. In addition, be able to implement improvements to processes and systems.

Daily Responsibilities:

  • Works with the maintenance planner and process/quality leader to deliver the business objectives. 
  • Coaches and develops team leaders to deliver expected business results.
  • Serves as shift communication point of contact for all outside resources (utilities, security, vendors, etc.).
  • Interfaces with contractor as single point of contact (SPOC) for the line(s).
  • Owns pay administration and attendance management for the line(s).
  • Manages incident tracking and absence reporting.
  • Manages call in/emergency vacation documentation.
  • Ensures new members are included in all team documentation (training plans and skill profile, Safety & Quality systems, etc.)
  • Drives operational excellence through execution of DDS, CIL, Defect Handling, CL, Breakdown Elimination, Planning & Scheduling, AM/PM

Ongoing Responsibilities:

Safety

  • Owns ensuring teams understand how to set Safety trigger and put actions in place to mitigate when necessary 
  • Owns Safety near miss/ 1st aid / incident investigations and resolution as well as daily action plan for respective line(s)

Quality

  • Owns ensuring teams understand how to set Quality trigger and put actions in place to mitigate when necessary 
  • Owns quality incident / customer complaint resolution as well as daily action plan for respective line(s).

Reliability

  • Manage systemic issues with PR and leads gap analysis and action plan (Hoshin) via weekly PDCA work process.
  • Owns overall team plan (integrating staffing, training, leadership role changes, etc.).

Process Control 

  • Leads Work Process Improvement initiatives.
  • Ensures centerlines and CILs are adhered to and communicates changes to personnel.
  • Ensures technicians are following operating standards as appropriate.

Delivery

  • Responsible for coaching technicians to deliver desired results.
  • Holds 1:1s/ performance evaluations across the line(s).
  • Holds team members accountable to standards.

Develop AM capability in yourself and the teams

  • Ensures timely and accurate CIL execution across the teams.
  • Provide necessary coaching to integrate AM tools into daily use.
  • Participates in AM pillar rollouts and other work.

Deliverables

  • Coaching and development of team leaders
  • DWS progression and execution for lines (includes CILs)
  • Daily Direction Setting
  • PR equal to or greater than 70% (or glidepath to achieve).
  • Understand and manage labor variance for the line(s).
  • Must be able to communicate to leadership, maintenance and co-workers for safety, quality and production concerns.     
  • Must be able to use required inspection gauges and computer.
  • Must be able to read and write as well as have a basic knowledge of mathematics (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) in order to complete required reports. 
  • Must possess the analytical ability to understand safety hazards. 
  • Must be able to manually lift with both hands up to 50lbs. from floor level to waist level or vice-versa at least 3 times per shift.
  • Must be able to tolerate heights and extreme temperatures if working outside.
  • Must possess the physical stamina to walk, stand, stoop or bend up to 100% of shift.
  • Must be present on the production floor most of their workday. 

You may fit well into this role if you: 

  • Have knowledge in all Duracell Work Systems and able to coach fellow-members these systems.
  • Knowledge of the programs: Excel, SAP, Reflex, CPMS, MaintainX, Augmentier, etc.
  • Leadership skills and ownership acr

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