Team Leader

Who We Are:

Challenge’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations.

Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success!

Together we own Safety! Challenge is #QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered!

Who We Want:

Attains team's goals by working collaboratively with Group Leaders and Team Members to drive continuous improvement. Works collaboratively with Group Leader and Team Members to ensure quality concerns are identified and escalated according to the company's quality process, ensuring highest quality products are delivered to internal and external customers. Consistently acts and behaves in a manner that supports a team-focused organization, effectively working to manage safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale.

What You'll Do:

• Drives/supports continuous improvement process and initiatives to ensure continuous improvement of team metrics for assigned area.
• Assists Group Leaders with managing manufacturing processes with detailed accuracy and discipline to ensure a quality part is produced to customer specifications.
• Serves as owner of team(s) board process, including updating metrics daily; transfers information from work team to team(s) board to provide visibility of team measures.
• May have primary responsibility for escalating and driving alignment with the company's quality process in the event quality failures result in product containment.
• May have primary responsibility for escalating and driving alignment with the company's policies in the event company and/or department specific processes are not followed.
• May take the lead on product sort activities to assist in resolving internal/external customer quality concerns/complaints.
• Coordinates activities for training team members, as designated by Group Leader, including keeping training matrix complete and up to date, ensuring training of team members is complete and standard work processes are followed. May conduct training.
• Performs production responsibilities as necessary to cover for absenteeism or heavy workloads.
• Understands established quality standards and performs quality checks, per work area instructions.

When and Where:

This will be a 1st Shift position located at our Plant in Spartanburg, SC. 

What You Need to Have:

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Able to stand for 8-10 hours a day and be physically capable of performing the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to maintain quality and safety standards.
• Ability to read and write and understand work instructions.
• Ability to understand and follow safety procedures.
• Ability to receive, track, and distribute materials, supplies, and equipment.
• Ability to prepare routine administrative paperwork.
• Ability to read, sort, check, count, and verify numbers.
• Ability to perform simple arithmetic.
• Ability to detect problems and report information to appropriate personnel.
• Ability to receive, stock, and/or deliver goods.
• Ability to operate PC and scan gun.
• Has high standards of performance for self. 
• Takes responsibility for actions, results, and mistakes.
•  Is thorough, accurate, and reliable when performing and completing job tasks; demonstrates honesty and integrity in all aspects of work.
• Takes positive action to objectively resolve conflict by listening, staying focused on issue to find resolution, and monitoring progress.
•  Maintains positive relationships by constructively resolving conflicts.
• Uses feedback from others to continuously improve performance and work relationships.
• Moves within own and/or other work areas (flexes) to support plant flow.
•  Works with sense of urgency to