MISSION: To provide the leadership necessary to promote teamwork and continuous improvement. To assist with budget items, shipments, process control issues, and cross training.
Principal Accountabilities
- Teamwork
- Prioritize work and shift setup in accordance with thru-put requirements.
- Participates in staffing projections.
- Facilitates scheduling of team O.T. and vacation in accordance with policy.
- Handles first line performance issues. Communicates with employees in a respectful manner regarding time management and workmanship issues. Notifies supervision when further action is required to improve performance.
- Gives objective, fact-based input for Project Team Build/Project Win and for performance reviews and measurements.
F Trains employees on new skills and works with employees to improve performance to satisfactory levels or maintain satisfactory performance. When appropriate will assign someone to provide training.
- Coordinates resources to move from one team to help another when necessary to meet daily thru-put and support outside departments.
- Is sensitive to and proactively supports the maintenance of a harassment/discrimination free environment.
- In performing leadership duties, avoids favoritism or the perception of favoritism.
- May be required to handle hazardous waste.
- May be required to complete Hazardous Waste Management Training.
- Process Control
- Notifies appropriate party/parties when a process is out of control.
B Facilitates technique card and router changes.
- Participates in root cause analysis for out of control conditions.
- Measurements
- Will set and display daily team production goals in accordance with TOC disciplines.
- May participate in presentation of team production status in daily thru-put “line walks”.
- Updates daily status on inventory position.
- Planning
- Coordinates long and short term capacity requirements and thru-put commitments with planning/supervisors.
- Assists with strategies to forecast and attain team measurements.
- Other
- Interfaces with customers, engineering, and other departments to give process walks and presentations.
- Records daily attendance on the attendance log confirming with individuals/team that information is accurate and in accordance with policy.
- Contacts appropriate resources if any employee may not be fit for duty. Addresses the issue promptly.
D Assures compliance with safe work habits and maintenance of proper housekeeping procedures
- Assures compliance with company policies and procedures and promptly notifies supervision of deviations.
- Other duties as assigned.
- May be required to handle hazardous waste.
- May be required to complete Hazardous Waste Management training.
- May be assigned to multiple work centers or departments.
- Rework Analyst certification or ability to certify within 90 days required.
- In addition, if assigned to the back-end you must be certified in one of the following within the first 24 months:
- Penetrant Inspection Level II
- Visual/Dimensional Inspection
Must be certified as outlined in 1 & 2 above to be eligible for Step 6.
- May be required to have additional certifications depending on assigned work center or departments
- Incumbent must be willing, as required by team and production needs to:
- Adjust shift
- Perform various jobs required to process parts
- Interface with other teams and support areas.
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing. Instructions must be clear and unambiguous; consistently assures directions are clearly understood resulting in work that rarely, if ever, needs to be redone due to the quality of communication.
- Ability to make “shop floor” presentations to customers, engineering, and other departments as required or requested.



