ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES
- Lead the production team, mentor and motivate team members, ensuring individual and group productivity.
- Act as communications hub for the team, disseminating pertinent and timely information.
- Schedule routine production functions, as well as special production needs and repair of warranty product.
- Work within the companies scheduling procedures to monitor production flow, using data indicators to schedule workload, ensuring output meets company targeted goals.
- Maintain and boost production efficiency, initiate and implement continuous improvement projects, train team members, and work with management to implement new processes.
- Assist in performing hands-on production and assembly functions.
- Assume responsibility for quality output as a participant in administering the company's Quality Management System.
- Implement Lean/Agile manufacturing practices.
- Minimum 3 years experience as a team leader or hands-on floor supervisor.
- Proven leadership, verbal communications and interpersonal skills.
- Time management, scheduling and prioritization skills.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to make effective decisions in an expedient manner while maintaining extremely high quality standards.
- Experience with utilizing and creating effective MS Excel spreadsheets; working capability with MSWord, Outlook, PowerPoint.