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Job Description
Position Summary:
Assists the Manager in developing and leading value stream continuous improvement to drive a Lean Operating System. Responsible for planning, directing and monitoring shift production. Controls quality levels, production quantities and manufacturing costs.
Essential Functions:
· Conduct STOP audits; participate in safety and housekeeping inspections, tracking daily production goals, accident reports, if needed, and production summaries.
· Ability to assign production employees to job and work stations, establish daily production goals, conduct production line orientation including introduction, safety and evacuation routes.
· Train production employees for various production jobs with documentation.
· Help develop employee LEAN skills through effective coaching, teaching and mentoring.
· Help develop/execute value stream improvement plans.
· Facilitate team activities as needed.
· Perform various projects in support of LEAN initiatives.
· Perform LEAN audits and place corrective measures in place if audit does not pass.
· Train and assist subordinates in the 5W process to drive continuous improvement.
· Supports 6S audits every shift and enforce sustainment with subordinates.
· Complete employee evaluations in a timely manner with consistency and measureable goals for all employees.
· Do shift walkthroughs with incoming and outgoing Production Leaders from the other shifts, reviewing visuals at each location and taking action, if necessary.
· Drive continuous improvement throughout all facets of the Value Stream.
· Perform random quality checks and assure all employees are properly trained in regards to Quality Control.
· Take on a Strategy Deployment opportunity yearly and lead improvement in the identified opportunity.
· Increased throughput driven by continuous improvement, with focus on Safety, and first time Quality performance.
· Regular attendance per handbook policy.
· Other duties as assigned by Manager.
· Proficient In Vorne Board Data and use Date to drive improvement.
· Participate in one RIE per year for Continuous Improvement.
· Responsible for providing training for all reporting subordinates.
· Monitor timestar and approve weekly work hours.
Physical Demands:
· Must be able to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods of time.
· The worker is subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions.
· Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
· Reaching-Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
· Pushing-Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
· Pulling-Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
· Lifting-Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
· Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other works, accurately, loudly, or quickly.
· Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
· Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
· The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity with or without assistance such as: operates machines where the seeing job is at or within arm’s reach; performs mechanical or skilled trades’ tasks of a non-repetitive nature.
· The worker is subject to environmental conditions. Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
· The worker is subject to noise. There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.
Workplace Requirements:
· Actively practice safety in all aspects of the job.
· Know and practice proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
· Know and follow Standard Work.
· Know and recognize quality products and practices, and take action when defects are identified.
· Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that promotes respect and teamwork between coworkers, customers, vendors, and management.
Education:
High School Diploma or equivalent; college degree preferred.
Experience:
· Minimum two (2) years in a manufacturing environment.
· Excellent attendance record and exceptional performance in the past 12 months.
· Previous LEAN manufacturing experience preferred.
Additional Qualifications:
· Reliable Leader with proven team building ability. Leads by example.
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills, good analytical skills and strong interpersonal skills.
· Must provide a writing sample by submitting a one (1) page, written essay on why the best candidate for the position.