- Lead, manage, and report daily production and quality requirements. Assist operators and employees in troubleshooting as necessary. Coach and mentor team members on properly operating equipment, tooling, and quality requirements. A strong understanding of customer requirements will be developed so quality decisions can be made to prevent rejections and claims.
- Train and cross-train team members continuously to ensure skill levels are proficient and equalized within their respective positions. Meet expectation deadlines of training timelines.
- Perform safety training, audits, and daily coaching so our team is safe and accident-free.
- Manage a safe and efficient flow of all material produced so labor allocation and usage align with productivity goals, including evaluating right-sizing teams each shift. Address and correct productivity delays so they are not a repeat issue. Minimize gap and downtime and maximize uptime time.
- Lead daily housekeeping activities and allocate labor equally and appropriately to ensure continuing improvement towards a world-class appearance and maintain daily desired state.
- Assist as needed and coordinate the repair and maintenance of equipment as required.
- Ensure consistent timeliness of loading and unloading to avoid delays in inbound material removal and outbound shipments by the team. Included will be the correct shipment to our customers at all times by the training team to perform cross-checks and follow instructions on the material loaded.
- Set employee schedules, complete required production through the enterprise software, and review daily attendance punches for accuracy. Foresee and address overtime causes. Approve or assist in weekly approval of hours.
- Learn and lead improvement on required business management/production metrics as a requirement of the position. Additionally, train team members so they understand their responsibilities to the metrics. E., mill run rate, loading efficiencies, on-time delivery, etc. Employees should understand huddle board information and how to interpret it.
- Ensure customer specifications are being met on all produced, inbound, and outgoing products as a result of auditing, training, and coaching throughout each shift. This will include correct packaging, labeling, dimensional tolerances, defect-free products, etc
- Work as a leader, team member, resource, and/or coach and maintain required Lean and Visual Factory areas, including 5S, KanBan, daily task boards, housekeeping matrices, pull systems, shipping lanes, staging, etc. Continuous improvement project participation is required.
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