Production Team Leader

Summary of position: 

Directs and coordinates shift manufacturing activities and related departments.  Give direction to hourly production team members.  Maintain production schedules.       

Essential Functions:

• Working leader of all personnel and operations on the shift.
• Assists technical personnel in changeover, repairs, maintenance projects, etc.
• Maintain production levels to meet customer demands and achieve proper levels as dictated by schedule.
• Meet with management on status of production levels, product quality, scrap reporting, etc.
• Communicate with outgoing and/or incoming Team Leader to review production requirements, machine problems, etc. to ensure smooth transition between shifts.
• Maintain realistic work-in-process levels.
• Schedule production employees to specific machines/duties in order to meet scheduled production requirements.
• Responsible for training of new team Members.
• Dotted line responsibilities of “on shift” quality and maintenance personnel.
• Maintain the flexibility of working on any shift as required.
• Responsible for mentoring new team members.
• Adhere to and administer company policies/procedures pertaining to their job.
• Actively seeks out areas for improvement and devises/aids in the development of counter measures.
• Responsible for maintaining and supporting IATF6949 and has the responsibility to contact Team Leads and/or stop processes that could ship a non-conforming products.
• Responsible for maintaining and supporting the company’s environmental, health, and safety risks of their job, and how their job affects the environment.
• Any and all other tasks assigned by management.

Competencies: 

• Leadership
• Thoroughness
• Quality Minded
• Teamwork Oriented
• Time Management
• Technical Capacity

  EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

1. High school diploma or G.E.D.
2. Experience in automotive industry with production.

Reporting to this position:  None

Physical demands and work environment:  The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities described to perform these functions:

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk; sit; push and pull; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk to hear.  The employee must often lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment:  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is in an uncontrolled temperature work environment.  The noise level in the work environment is minimal and below OSHA requirements.  

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

All employees: At a minimum, all facility employees shall:

• ·        Actively supporting the Sejong Environmental, Health & Safety Policy and the programs for its implementation of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
• ·        Continuously practice Environmental, Health & Safety protection and encouraging others to do the same
• ·        Immediately inform their supervisors of any Environmental, Health & Safety hazards beyond their ability or authority to correct
• ·        Actively maintaining and supporting the process approach and risk analysis detailed in Sejong’s Quality Policy and the programs supporting IATF16949.
• Follow and support all handbook rules and policies.