Job Description

Overview

As a Production Group Leader in Dryer, you will be overseeing the support of team members either directly or through the Team Leads within your area/zone. You will be responsible for coordinating day-to-day activities to maintain safety, quality, delivery, and cost requirements within Small Chassis Dryer.

The hours for this position are 2:30pm to 1am, Monday-Thursday with the potential of overtime on Fridays. This position is onsite in Ripon, Wisconsin.

Responsibilities

• Creates a safe work culture by ensuring safety standard practices are adhered to, safety action team involvement, and ergonomic evaluations completed on every new operation and equipment
• Works with Quality, Team Members, and Team Leaders to ensure all products produced meet or exceed customer requirements
• Empowers and expects every team member to contribute to continuous improvement
• Demonstrates a core value of respectful treatment of all team members in every discussion, interaction and decision
• Provide daily direction to Team Leads to ensure KPI requirements are achieved safely
• Complete attendance and time keeping requirements for your hourly team members daily
• Drive waste reduction through lean techniques
• Ensure that employees are properly trained by their Team Lead or other designated trainer in the areas of safety, quality, equipment operation and 5S
• Interface with technical staff to ensure proper support
• Establish annual goals and objectives that support the attainment of operating metrics
• Serve as the first point of contact for employees regarding employee relations issues
• Interface with Union Stewards in contract and discipline issues
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Knowledge/Experience:

• Proven history of ability to lead with a servant leadership mindset.
• A minimum of three years of experience in a medium/high volume, fast-paced manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Previous Assembly line supervision experience would be preferred.

** Skills and Abilities:**

• Must be self-driven and ambitious with proven leadership capabilities, including providing coaching, mentoring and supervision within a team environment.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel).
• Strong problem solving skills, including encouraging others on your team to think proactively and create solutions.
• Basic understanding of process control, production scheduling, Kaizen, Kanban and Lean manufacturing is preferred.

** Education:**

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Manufacturing Engineering or Operations is preferred.
• Associate Degree in Business Management or Engineering with previous leadership experience in manufacturing setting would be considered
• Previous professional, internship or co-op experience will be taken into consideration as relevant experience.

Physical Requirements

• Position involves sitting, standing and walking extensively, manual dexterity, stooping, bending and minimal lifting.