Team Leader - Solid race Assembly

TITLE Solid Race Assembly Team Leader
COMPANY Koyo Bearings
DEPARTMENT 75 – Solid Race
LOCATION Cairo, GA
CLASSIFICATION Hourly Non-Exempt
REPORTS TO Solid Race Supervisor
SHIFT 1st (6am – 2:30pm)

GRADE 04
Summary:
The Team Leader will be responsible for daily operations in the Value Stream. He/she will drive improvement against problems or issues relating to Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Human Resource Development through ensuring coordination to obtain Annual Plan targets and collaboration with other departments.
Reporting Structure:
• Executes prioritized requests for improvement from Operations Manager and Dept. Supervisor and Kaizen Leader driven from Annual Plan (Dotted Line Responsibility)
• Executes policy deployment from Operations Manager (Admin. Responsibility)
Essential Duties and Accountabilities:
-Annual Plan
• Provides input/ analysis to prioritize gaps in department performance
• Develops personnel support strategy (Annual Plan) to achieve department Annual Plan
-Safety
• Start of shift safety communication
• Audits daily and abnormal work for safety conformance, applies countermeasure and/or instructs to improve safety
• Takes action (Kaizen or temporary) to improve known safety hazards for team members
• Visualizes safety metrics and gaps
-Quality
• Management and Confirmation that team member quality checks are accurately performed to standard
• Confirm, escalate, direct, take action when quality abnormalities occur, identifies NG lot and isolates
• Management and Confirmation that team member Pokayoke checks are accurately performed to standard
• Escalate, direct, and takes action/ countermeasure for abnormal reject occurrences
• Ensure that all scrap is properly reported.
• Management and Confirmation that all team members can detect abnormalities and escalate (scw)
• Visualizes Quality metrics and gaps
• Completes Daily LPA
-Delivery
• Manages weekly cycle time verification of each machine, takes action to prevent low Bekido due to longer than standard c/t
• Escalate, direct, and takes action/ countermeasure for abnormal short stop, PPH, or Non-Bekido occurrences
• Management and Confirmation that team member production reporting is accurately reported
• Establish weekly Yarijimai plan/ target based on production schedule
• Confirms daily production (x4 a shift) against plan, escalates, directs, take action/ countermeasure for Yarjiamai, PPH, Bekido miss
• Visualizes Delivery metrics and gaps
-Cost
• Escalate, direct, and takes action/ countermeasure for coolant, oil, and air leaks, makes visual
• Effectively can allocate existing operators to appropriate positions to manage production targets
• Effectively manages/ balances overtime plan to achieve production targets for Yarjiamai
• Escalate, direct, and takes action/ countermeasure for abnormal use of tooling, PPE, and consumables amongst team members
• Visualizes Cost metrics and gaps

-Human Resource Development-
• Understands every characteristic of each machine and production process and able to teach/ explain to team members
• Can explain and teach key points for safety and quality for each process or machine in assigned area
• Management and Execution of a Weekly standardized work audit plan
• Management and Confirmation that team member standard work is accurate, updated
• Management and Execution of team member cross training and new hire training plan
-Maintenance - TPM
• Management and Confirmation of team member productive and preventative maintenance activities are accurately performed to standard
• Management and Confirmation of the validity of all team member requests to maintenance and engineering
• Escalate, direct, and takes action/ countermeasure for maintenance or engineering delay
-5S
• Management and confirmation of team member’s 5S action items execution
• Audit of 5S performance and drives 5S action item list completion
-QC Circle
• Provides adequate training and resources to complete 1 Departmental QC Circle project per Fiscal Year
• Escalate, direct, and takes action/countermeasure to meet meeting frequency targets (x3 month)
¬-FMDS
• Documents and makes visible daily performance for SQDC
• Previous day SQDC performance review w/ team members
• Leads FMDS Team's 24hr SDCA for SQDC misses
• Escalate, direct, and takes action/ countermeasure for delays in 24hr SDCA response
• Ensures that all abnormalities and Change Points are documented and visible
• Develops Change Point Schedule and quality assurance plan with FMDS Team
• Ensures that Quality Check b