Welding Team Leader at Behlen Mfg Co. – Columbus, Nebraska

Summary: Team Leaders are responsible for leading production teams to complete their assigned work, ensuring compliance with safety protocols, Behlen Global Values, standard work, and other team requirements and controls.

Team Leader Responsibilities:

• Maintain high 6S compliance to keep work areas clean, organized, and free of clutter
• Manage “delivery wheel” to produce and deliver required product on time and in compliance with quality specifications and reporting requirements
  1. Manage team to achieve high schedule attainment against firm schedule
  2. Manage labor utilization and efficiency to control labor cost and achieve output goals
  3. Manage material flow into, within, and out of your department
  4. Utilize equipment, tooling, and hand tools safely and efficiently
  5. Meet quality requirements
  6. Adhere to standard work and other instructions
• Coach Partners in Progress for personal development, and also when their individual performance falls short of our Global Values and delivery expectations
• Cooperate with Team Leaders on other shifts and in other departments
• Cross train partners on your team to ensure high flexibility, where applicable.
• Ensure Partners in Progress are available to other departments when production goals call for labor to be re-allocated.
• Ensure maintenance tasks (e.g., operator preventive maintenance, or OPM) that are assigned to your team are performed and reported as planned
• Learn Lean tools and practices, and keep a mindset of continuous improvement
• Support continuous improvement activities, such as kaizens, AIM projects, CapEx projects, etc.
• Communicate effectively up and down, to ensure your team and your Manufacturing Manager are informed of relevant information
• Perform work assigned to your team as needed, in addition to Team Leader responsibilities
• Complete work order transactions and other reporting in an accurate and timely manner
• Make sure all quality information and audits are completed (daily, weekly, monthly)
• Schedule work stations and product mix for department
• Actively participate in all production related meetings that impact your department
• Ensure all safety accident reporting and First Aid kits are turned in to the Nurse monthly
• Practice safe working habits and follow safety policy, procedures, and Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
• Ability to work towards continuous improvement of product quality and ISO-9001:2015.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead a team to achieve stated goals
• High attention to personal and team accountability
• Strong interpersonal skills, with emphasis on integrity, collaboration, and open and honest communication
• Commitment to personal development for self and team members, to build skills
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, and comfortable working on a shop floor with expected levels of noise, forklift traffic, physical effort, etc.
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Must be willing and able to work reasonable daily and weekend overtime
• Must be able to stand, walk, or sit for extended periods of time, depending on the assigned work area