Production Group Leader

Overview

Directly leads a manufacturing team of hourly production personnel and supervision and indirectly leads support team members from production planning, manufacturing engineering, quality and maintenance. This production team is responsible for all aspects of production for a product line or lines including production planning, staffing, quality improvements, and efficiency improvements and maintaining quality and maintenance requirements.

Directly leads a manufacturing team of hourly production personnel and supervision and indirectly leads support team members from production planning, manufacturing engineering, quality and maintenance. This production team is responsible for all aspects of production for a product line or lines including production planning, staffing, quality improvements, and efficiency improvements and maintaining quality and maintenance requirements.

Leadership and Essential Functions

As a Production Group Leader for IFNA, you are in a high impact role that requires the skills to drive multiple behaviors and programs:

• Directs work - Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.
• Resourcefulness - Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.
• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Builds effective teams - Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives (healthy tension) to achieve common goals. Leverages the benefits of different perspectives
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Maintain a regular reporting structure for tracking and communicating targets and goals.
• Cultivates innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Health and Safety Fundamentals - Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Leads the development of departmental plans and deliverables. Develop high performance team members to meet / exceed department and organizational goals / objectives.
• Provides technical consultation, leadership, and advice to managers, manufacturing personnel and other functions.
• Coaches and motivates direct and indirect team members, delegates work assignments, and leads change.
• Develop work methods and standards for each team member to meet and maintain department goals and compliance to OSHA, IATF
  16949 and ISO 14001 requirements
• Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions and manages & resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
• Challenges the status quo and seeks ways to create opportunities for improvement for products, processes or services.
• Escalate issues that do not get resolved or could impact ability to meet department or organizational goals and objectives
• Predict and prevent issues from negatively impacting group or organizational performance
• Makes well-informed, effective and timely decisions and perceives the impact and implications of decisions

• Report any work-related injury, illness, incident or hazard immediately
• Comply with SHE standards, policies, procedures & regulations
• Use appropriate personal protective equipment
• Promote interdependence by looking out for one another
• Correct safety issues within your control and capabilities
• Recognize how your work may impact the environment and work to minimize the negative impact
• Engage in SHE training

• Follow all applicable standard work, work instruction/process documentation and established quality procedures
• Raise issues to minimize cost and quality exposures
• Identify non-conforming material within scope of job

• Demonstrate a high level of competency in core work skills
• Meet defined goals on time
• Pay attention to detail

• Communicate effectively with the assigned team and with all support teams.
• Complete training in line with business requirements.
• Participate actively in ways to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development.
• Remain flexible and perform other miscellaneous duties, as required, to meet business goals to include working in other areas as business needs require.
• Work with peers, skilled trades and support staff to maintain and identify equipment in need of repair.
• Be respectful and courteous to all team members.

• Directs, maintains, and enforces the safety program for the production department you own and reviews safety records to uphold standards of maximum safety for all reports
• Actively participates in safety committee meetings and company initiatives
• Leads production planning activities, with logistics, planning, manufacturing…