Production Lead in Tacoma, Washington at VERUS AEROSPACE FINANCE INC

Position Summary

Responsible for leading and developing people, processes and systems that ensure the highest safety, quality, productivity, and efficiency standards are achieved by applying Lean Manufacturing principles and tools.

• Workforce is safe and incident-free
• Continuous Improvement culture is developed and fostered
• Standard Work is in place for all processes
• Employees are meeting established Workplace Expectations
• Customer schedules and quality requirements are met
• First Pass Yields > 98%
• Budget and productivity goals and objectives are met

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish routine work practices and audits to ensure continuous improvement to 5S level.
• Ensure Standard Work is established and maintained for all processes.
• Develop, train and involve employees in maintaining and improving safety, efficiency, productivity, quality, cooperation and morale.
• Ensure employees are trained to do their work and their training is documented. Execute cross-training and personal development strategies for direct reports.
• Model Workplace Expectations and coach employees to meet the same level of expectations in a respectful and thoughtful manner.
• Actively promotes and supports a safe work environment and ensures all employees work in a safe manner.
• Ensures all employees are properly trained in all safety procedures.
• Meet quality objectives by ensuring compliance to quality systems.
• Plan, organize and supervise all shift operations in accordance with production schedules. Maintain status of production, redeploy resources as required. Set and communicates expectations for daily production.
• Work closely with cross-functional groups to develop continuous improvement plans (i.e. engineering, programming, maintenance and quality) in order to achieve plant and work cell objectives.
• Ensures that throughput goals are attained and budget criteria is met or surpassed.

Position Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Certification from an accredited technical college a plus
• Minimum 3 years of progressive milling experience as journey level.
• Aerospace industry experience is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Required Skills

• Possess basic math and geometry knowledge with elementary knowledge of engineering principals helpful
• Ability to read blueprints, follow work order and verbal instructions
• Knowledgeable of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)