Responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the production operations. Overseeing group members and ensuring an efficient operation in achieving business goals. Provide leadership and line management to the team, coordinate workload, provide support to ensure the team delivers, monitors issues and ensures production targets and quality standards are met to meet customer requirements. Develop the team by focusing on individual performance and support requirements to achieve high standards while fostering a culture of working safely.
· Lead by example and perform in a manner that ensures high morale and high performance. Inspire other employees to support company vision, mission, strategies (main things), goals and guiding principles. Responsible for the development of all personal under their direct report.
· Adheres to all company policies and procedures. All Quality Systems procedures and work instructions are consistently followed.
· Must be able to work weekends as needed to support customer requirements.
· Plan, coordinate, and supervise the activities of production team members to meet production schedules and to hold them accountable for their performance.
· Will prioritize team members, production jobs and improvement projects on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
· Promoter & person-in-charge of the Lean Manufacturing improvement activities. Track, maintain and work to improve specific department and plant wide performance metrics of OCE (On-Time, Complete and Error-Free) through training, continuous improvement projects, etc.
· Will provide leadership to the production crew while coaching, mentoring, and training a lean, quality oriented and safety conscious culture.
· Will communicate to purchasing any material and consumable shortages while assisting in sequencing, ship dates, and deliveries of jobs to customers.
· Work with Quality Support Tech to analyze any major quality problems, and systematically resolve the problem to prevent its recurrence. Provide quality training for employees while ensuring product meets all quality requirements.
· Ensure that all safety policies, procedures, and concepts are always adhered to. Lead all safety concerns for production employees until resolved.
· Responsible for cross-training, developing, and monitoring the training/skill level status of direct reports.
· Provide guidance, counsel, and direction to direct reports, documentation done accurately and on time (EZ labor, performance, and behavior issues).
· Any other duties that may be necessary to accomplish the goals of this position or goals of the company