Printing - Cell Lead; 3rd Shift

Kansas City, MO $50,000.00-$60,000.00

Reporting to the Printing Shift Supervisor, the Cell Leader is responsible for coordinating the activities of resources of the assigned cell and making sure the team is positioned to meet the quality, delivery and productivity targets. The Cell Leader will need to know the daily expectations of the cell, know the current status throughout the shift, make the necessary adjustments, and provide the technical support required to hit the targets.

• Coordinate activities, overlapping with previous or next shift to understand unusual circumstances, scheduling issues and ongoing problems.
• Assist Group Leader with assignment of personnel at the start of the shift, identify labor shortages or skill issues, and ensure machines run through shift change.
• Assist set‑up operators in CM&R or quality inspection/machine adjustment as required.
• Re‑assign personnel as required, set up operators for CM&R, press operators to cover breaks and lunches on high priority presses, technician to priorities.
• Conduct quick walk‑around the area checking each press for issues.
• Respond to downtime issues by dealing directly calling technicians as required, escalating problems that exceed 30 minutes.
• Schedule jobs in the correct sequence on the Daily Machine Scheduling & Attainment board.
• Check and authorize job starts and fill out the Line Inspection Sheet.
• Update cell production report with downtime information.
• Complete the update of the scheduling board at the end of the shift, totaling all the appropriate columns.
• Complete and Submit Cell Leader report.
• Never compromises safety, treats fellow team members with honesty, respect, and dignity and meets standards of conduct.
• Perform hourly audits of presses checking for adherence to quality procedures, jobs running at job card speed, proper use of Kanban card, ahead/behind status, adherence to standard work, HSE/HACCP/SQF/5S.
• Identify training opportunities to Group Leader.
• Actively participate in problem solving.
• Provide technical assistance to operators as required.
• Responsible for training team members on cGMP’s Food Safety and Quality procedure.
• Assist with new job approval tasks and associated documentation.
• This position is back up for Group Leaders; backup for this position is the designated Set‑Up Specialists or Press Operators.

• Educational Requirements: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum Experience: 5 years as a press operator.
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Fluent in English with good written and verbal communication skills, good interpersonal skills.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Press operating skills, tear down, wash, set up of printing presses; able to run all lid and base presses; ability to diagnose printing problems and initiate appropriate corrective action; able to work with frequent interruptions.
• Shows leadership qualities, able to coordinate multiple activities at the same time.

• Treat fellow team members with honesty, respect and dignity.
• Ability to give concentrated attention for long periods of time.
• Uses sound judgment to make good decisions.
• Adapts to changing work environments, work priorities and organizational needs.

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