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2nd Shift Foreman

Leggett & Platt
Grand Rapids, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Jan 2025

About the role

We make life more comfortable.

 

Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

 

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

 

From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.

 

Learn more about the history of Leggett: https://leggett.com/history

 

Furniture

 

A Leader in the Upholstered Furniture Industry

 

In our Furniture Components business, we design, manufacture, and distribute a wide range of components and finished products that enhance comfort, motion, and style in upholstered furniture, including recliner mechanisms, seating support systems, and sofa sleeper units. With a global footprint that includes international manufacturing, product development, distribution and sales, we are strategically positioned to support upholstered furniture manufacturers around the world.

 

Workplace Furniture Solutions

 

Leggett & Platt is North America’s leading independent manufacturer of office furniture components and mechanism. Our Work Furniture business produces task and finished components, as well as select lines of private label finished seating. From surface-critical bent tube assemblies and molded plywood components to chair mechanisms, bases, arms, seats, and backs, Work Furniture brings diverse world-class manufacturing capabilities together in the production and assembly of high-quality contract furniture products.

 

Learn more about Furniture components: Furniture

 

Learn more about Work Furniture: Work Furniture

 

 

Lead Person 2nd Shift: Davidson

 

REPORTS TO:  Production Foreman

 

SUMMARY:

Responsible for ensuring safety, quality, delivery and production standards are met as they relate to any task, product or employee that has been assigned to their cell.  The Cell Lead will also ensure that all policies and procedures are being followed and executed correctly.

 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Includes the following:  Other duties may be assigned….

 

  • Ensure all policies and procedures are documented and being adhered to by work-cell team members.
  • Identify and implement lean/continuous improvement philosophies to achieve targeted work cell objectives (e.g. safety, quality, and efficiency)
  • Ensure work cell compliance with all quality procedures. This includes the overall responsibility of the finished product that is shipped to the customer.
  • Conduct weekly safety meetings with work cell team.
  • Have working knowledge of all products and procedures within your work cell and provide training to new or transferred employees.
  • Analyze and use structured problem-solving skills to product and process concerns.
  • Work collaborati

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