Material Flow Team Lead - 5th Shift (Mon-Thurs from 3pm-1am + Overtime as necessary)

Description

Sportech is a rapidly growing company in Elk River, MN. We are looking for talented people who wish to join a values-based company that desires to help our people and customers win. We design, manufacture, and assemble cab components and systems for the powersports, golf and turf, industrial and agricultural end markets. Our design and engineering capabilities allow us to provide complex components and assemblies to our original equipment manufacturer customers. We are always on the gas and seeking dynamic, enthusiastic, and motivated individuals to join our extraordinary team.

Job Summary

Maintains an inventory of raw materials in stock, on order, and work-in-process in production. Provides inventory information to production schedulers and may investigate inventory accuracy. Reorder materials or issues reorders requests when appropriate.

Essential Job Functions

• Support the production process by coordinating the movement of material into, within and out to manufacturing in a timely and professional manner
• Review planned time off- plan and communicate coverage and concerns during daily production meeting
• Review payroll and PTO requests
• Review daily production schedule and ensure all jobs are covered in the market and receiving area to confirm that production and manufacturing commitments are achieved
• Manage new allocation report for internal and external packaging supplier
• Communicate to supervisor/manager if there is shortage and/or overage in labor resources
• Perform job completions in a timely manner
• Drive team to maintain a clean, safe, and organized work area as established through 5S standards
• Audit market and receiving areas daily for 5S compliance
• Resolve 5S issues documented on the Action list for your area
• Review weekly 5S audit with team and resolve 5S issues for your area
• Document any safety or environmental issues through incident reporting procedures and participate in safety investigations
• Communicate weekly safety talks to team
• Ensure the daily material handling process runs smoothly and is not interrupted
• Evaluate status of picking, return to stock, and cycle counting processes
• Identify, document, and seek root cause solution for any and all issues that interfere with the material delivery process
• Capture issues on the material flow countermeasure board, and immediately communicate issues to responsible parties in departments span of control
• Reconcile inventory discrepancies and report information to finance weekly
• Track daily performance through the use of process center communication and accountability boards on a daily and weekly meeting basis
• Must be an expert for all receiving, material handling, and delivery processes and assist team as needed in job duties
• Operate a variety of equipment applicable within assigned area (i.e., CRTs, forklifts, etc.).
• Review and maintain training matrix to ensure properly trained material handlers are set
• Create, train, and audit to standard work documents and subsequent work instructions for all primary job functions
• Perform daily 5S layered audits
• Audit standard work procedures weekly
• Run daily cycle counts and audit material as needed
• Review and audit material from negative on hand report daily
• Review and process scrap as needed
• Communicate daily during pre-shift meeting important announcements, metrics, and pertinent company communications to team
• Plan and manage daily milk runs from building to building through standard scheduling processes and documentation
• Attend L10 department meetings
• Attend production, cell board, and ship board meetings daily escalating inventory and resource constraints as needed
• Provides coaching and proper documentation on performance
• Participate in quarterly and end of the year performance reviews
• Participate in the requisition and onboarding of new employees
• Drive a continuous improvement culture by involving employees in problem solving, decision making, and recognizing them for outstanding work during daily pre-shift communication meetings and ongoing developmental 1:1’s
• Partner with HR on escalated employee relations to ensure proper procedures are being followed
• Process Outsource Jobs
• Be a change agent and drive out waste and lead time throughout the material flow operations with the deployment of Lean techniques, tools, and methodologies
• Perform other related duties as needed

Requirements

• Requires a high school diploma or equivalent plus 1 to 2 years of relevant experience.
• Forklift training and certification required
• Ability to lift and perform other physic