Senior Production Lead

Summary:

This role assists and provides direction to the team to ensure achievement of daily safety, quality, productivity and inventory goals. This person must be a role model for safe behavior and must ensure team members are following safe work practices and wearing required personal protective equipment (PPE).

Essential Functions:

• Facilitate 'start of shift' meetings and assign tasks throughout shift.
• Troubleshoot and solve problems on the production floor including but not limited to:
  • Monitor and track quality issues and escalate to supervisor when necessary.
  • Provide constructive feedback to associates regarding operational errors.
  • Utilize effective conflict resolution skills to resolve production and/or personnel issues.
• Monitor and adjust labor utilization as necessary; coordinate efforts and resource allocation with other team leads/supervisors.
• Ensure quality management system training records are accurate; ensure controlled copies of work instructions are accurate and up to date.
• Facilitate cross-training throughout assigned department; conduct cross-training when needed.
• Participate in interviewing/selection of contract employees; prepare initial drafts of contract employee performance reviews.
• Monitor and track mechanical downtime, daily metrics, order processing and material availability.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.  May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of education
• 6+ years manufacturing experience
• Proficient quality management and enterprise resource planning systems experience
• Must be capable of training, certifying and performing all positions within the department