Manufacturing Assembly Associate Jobs in Houston, TX

General Role Description

Supervise assembly operations to ensure production goals are met while maintaining quality and safety standards

Role Accountabilities

-    Implement, manage, and monitor assembly processes to maintain efficient and reliable production operations

-    Plan work schedules and manage employee hours, reallocating staff as needed to sustain production line continuity

-    Identify factors that may impact on-time productivity and notify the manager promptly to mitigate delays

-    Interview and evaluate candidates to select qualified personnel for assembly positions

-    Assess skill levels and coordinate training to maintain a capable and effective assembly team

-    Verify tools and equipment calibration requirements are met according to established schedules

-    Investigate part discrepancies and coordinate resolution to prevent production interruptions

-    Provide temporary coverage for absent team members to maintain production continuity

-    Investigate and address quality non-conformances, notifying quality control and/or quality assurance

-    Issue work orders, schematics, specifications, and instructions to team leads

-    Troubleshoot assembly issues and resolve, escalating to manager as necessary

-    Identify and report production constraints related to equipment, staffing, or capacity to the manager

-    Conduct random inspections of assembly lines to verify adherence to established processes and procedures

-    Monitor work areas for unsafe practices, equipment issues, and PPE compliance and address concerns promptly

-    Verify daily completion of 6S standards to maintain organized and efficient work areas

General Employee Accountabilities

-    Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-    Give manager best advice

-    Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-    Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-    Exemplify Company Core Values:  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-    Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-    Recommend viable improvements proactively

-    Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Manager Accountabilities

-   Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees

-   Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team

-   Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement

-   Own the output of the team

-   Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities

-   Exercise effective managerial leadership to include

-   Two-way managerial team working

-   Fair and just treatment of direct reports

-   Context setting

-   Planning

-   Task assignment

-   Ongoing performance management

-   Coaching

-   Selection and orientation

-   De-selection and dismissal

Manager-Once-Removed Accountabilities

-    Ensure effective leadership and fair and just treatment for their direct reports once removed

-    Ensure talent pool development at the direct report once removed level

Requirements

• -   High school diploma or equivalent
• -   2 years' experience in a supervisory or lead role
• -   Demonstrated working knowledge of manufacturing operations and production processes
• -   Proficiency using hand tools and power tools
• -   Demonstrated success leading teams to accomplish business goals
• -   Strong problem-solving skills
• -   Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• -   Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• -   Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• -   Proficiency working with an ERP system
• -   Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook
• -   Ability to lift, push, and pull up to 40 lbs.
• -   Availability to travel domestically and internationally, up to 5%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

-      Associate's degree in manufacturing, industrial technology, or a related field

-      4 years' experience in a supervisory or lead role

-      2 years' power electronics manufacturing experience

-      Working knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement practices

-      Proficiency working with an ERP system

-      Demonstrated ability to perform quality checks and inspections in a production environment

-      Demonstrated experience working in a business with foreign ownership, preferably Japanese

-      Proficiency working with Oracle

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:  https://www.tmeic.com/.  To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting.  A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application.  Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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