Lead - Injection 2nd shift

The Metal Ware Corporation is a privately owned company located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Metal Ware has been manufacturing consumer products for over 100 years. You may know us best through our brands such as NESCO, Chard, and Grizzly. We make many of our products here in our Two Rivers plant using injection molding, metal stamping and rotational molding equipment. We believe in supporting continued education, promotion from within and valuing a work life balance for its employees at all levels of the organization.

Mission Statement: To excel as a consumer products company that utilizes the best people and innovative processes to deliver the highest quality products.

Core Values:

Trust and Integrity: We are ethical, reliable, transparent, and honest towards the people we work with, and to our customers we service.

Innovation: We utilize consumer insights, emerging technologies, and creative thinking to provide solutions that exceed our customer’s expectations.

Teamwork: We work collaboratively in order to achieve a common goal. We are one company, one team.

Empowerment:  We empower teammates by providing resources and opportunities that allow them to make decisions and solve problems.

Drive to Win: With focus on all core values, we will achieve our goals with passion, motivation, and ambition for the benefit of our teammates and customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day department operations, which includes but is not limited to the following:
• Uphold a culture of working safely and following safety protocol. Complete safety incident forms when needed.
• Assist in establishing staffing levels.
• Monitor staff to follow all company policies.
• Investigate and communicate personnel issues with leadership/or HR
• Attend the production meeting to assign daily job duties and assignments. Identify what machines are running, qty of people on machine, change overs, scrap, etc.
• Set expectations for staff and monitor output against department efficiency goals.
• Monitor and make corrective actions to improve quality issues.
• Maintain 100% accuracy on data entry associated with shift reports, inventory and labor transactions in sage, maintain startup/shutdown inventory sheet and all other data entry.
• Monitor material usage and investigate negative variances.
• Communicate with planning to meet customer ship dates.
• Monitor tool usage to identify trends and potential issues to reduce costs.
• Instruct and train operators assigned to operate equipment and periodically check operating procedures to assure proper machine operations, safety, and quality of products and assemblies.
• Empower employees to independently solve problems, keep production running, and continually learn different jobs and tasks to ensure a skilled and motivated team.
• Print the appropriate labels for production
• Assist supervisor or manager with PTO requests and attendance.
• Promote company core values.