Essential Responsibilities:
- Lead the daily production meetings to assess daily capability to meet Safety, Quality and Delivery objectives.
- Ensure manpower and machine capacity is available and assigned to support schedule.
- Proactively work with other team leaders to cross deploy workers to support the needs of each other’s cell.
- Identify production bottlenecks in Gate/Cell, understand available capacity and ensure bottlenecks are continuously in production to maximize cell output,
- Develop and maintain skill matrix for cell that documents skill level of each employee and ensures a cross-training plan is in place to support volume growth,
- Work with Engineers and Lean Specialists to implement quality/productivity/ cost-out/yield improvement projects in the Cell.
- Work with Engineers and Lean Specialists to implement quality/productivity/cost out/yield improvement projects in the Cell.
- Handle day to day people issues - turnover, recruitment, disciplinary investigation & execution, tardiness, accident or incident investigation. Track and coordinate appraisal of technicians.
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university (with at least 3 years if experience in similar capacity) Or
- Diploma in Engineering from an accredited polytechnic (with at least 5 years of experience in similar capacity)
Desired Characteristics:
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work independently.
- Strong problem solving skills.
- Knowledge of Work Teams, multi-skill training and Lean
- Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
- Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
- Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
- Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
- Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker
