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Production Lead

Who You Are:

Strong Leader who communicates well and engages your team and fellow coworkers.

Focused and detail-oriented

Driven to complete tasks on time and accurately.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Oversee 15+ employees in an automated/semi-automated manufacturing environment.
• Maintain a safety-first work environment, utilizing proactive safety and ensuring all associates adhere to personal protective gear requirements and standard operating procedures.
• Ensure line cleanliness and organization through the implementation and enforcement of 5S tenets.
• Audit all stages within glass production processes, ensuring employee and machine adherence to all aspects of conformance quality.
• Monitor quality of upstream parts and materials from internal and external suppliers.
• Ascertain that all associates are actively performing and recording checks daily.
• Meet or exceed on-time delivery expectations through adherence to, and completion of, daily production schedule.
• Perform cycle time and standard work audits, making sure associates are adhering to performance and efficiency standards. Ultimately responsible for production throughput and output goals.
• Develop associates through coaching, mentoring, and cross-training. Responsible for maintaining and executing on departmental cross-training matrix to attain adequate personnel flexibility and coverage for all workstations.
• Employ lean tools and methodologies such as waste identification and elimination, plan-do-check-act (PDCA), root cause analysis, etc.
• Record and report out on all hourly and aggregate daily metrics for safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Responsible for maintaining frontline management system.
• Make sure daily operator-level preventative maintenance is being accomplished and coordinate with maintenance on other equipment needs.
• Uphold company policies around factors such as attendance and conduct, administering corrective actions when necessary.
• Initiate and engage in continuous improvement efforts.

Skills You Bring:

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• 1-2 plus years of prior lead experience
• Prior manufacturing experience
• Knowledge of and ability to follow all health, safety, quality, and labor standards applying to your area of responsibility.
• Must be able to stand, twist, bend, and stoop for long periods of time.
• Able to read a tape measure and match the correct label with the correct lite of glass.
• Must be able to lift 75 pounds on a regular basis.
• Must be able to work in a noisy environment.
• Must be able to work in hot or cold temperatures.
• Must be able to bend, crouch, kneel, stand, sit, lift, push, and pull repetitively and/or throughout the duration of the shift.
• Steel toe boots required (not company provided).
• Passing pre-employment requirements such as physical, drug screen, weight lift test, and criminal background check are condition of employment for all positions.