Job Title: Inspection Group Leader
Department: US Quality Assurance Team
Shift: Must be willing to work any shift
Direct Report: Inspection Unit Manager
Type: Full-time; Exempt

About the Inspection Group Leader position

We are looking for a QA Group Leader who will monitor our production operations and ensure that they deliver maximum quality in a profitable manner. Your duties will include monitoring employees, organizing workflows and analyzing the efficiency of manufacturing processes.

You should be highly competent and comprehend complex operations. We also expect you to be able to optimize day-to-day activities while minimizing the costs.

Production Group Leader responsibilities are:

• Actively supports and drives a Safety Always Culture, a 5S workplace, consistent up, down and across communication and continuous improvement as a way of work life.
• Provides managerial support and leadership to all assigned personnel
• Manages work assignments, directs tasks, and assists in achieving production objectives
• Monitors employee productivity; provides constructive feedback
• Ensures the proper number of personnel in the shift for normal operation
• Works closely with Engineers to develop standardized work procedures by designing and/or documenting the best work sequence for each process
• Utilizes techniques to identify waste, methodically eliminate waste and standardize the new process/methods.
• Understands and executes all HR policies and procedures consistently to include time keeping, discipline, and performance management
• Complies and promotes EHS programs, policies, and procedures in a proactive way
• Develops the skills of assigned personnel through coaching, training, and correcting sub-standard performance
• Ensures open lines of internal communication throughout the department, between shifts, with Line Leaders, and all appropriate support personnel
• Communicates regularly with personnel from other manufacturing units and quality groups
• Use key performance indicators (KPI’s) as a method of continuous improvement
• Compiles and analyzes data; reports desired information to engineers and management
• Additional duties as assigned by management

Production Group Leader requirements are:

Education:

• (Required) High School Diploma or GED
• (Preferred) Engineering/ Technical (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, etc.) Degree or Business Degree

Experience:

• (Preferred) Relevant Experience
• (Required) Previous experience in a leadership role in the manufacturing industry desired

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to handle or feel; to reach with hands and arms; and to talk and hear
• Must be capable of climbing up and down a ladder/stairs several times per shift
• Must be capable of standing for long periods of time
• Mobility throughout the facility
• Employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, walk, or crouch
• Employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted on occasion
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus

Benefits:

• 401(k), 401(k) matching
• Health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays

Hankook Tire is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.