Team Lead, Operations 

Reports to: Shop Operations Foreman

PURPOSE: 

Create a desirable work environment for your team while motivating your team to continually meet factory and company targets. Forecast and oversee production workflow, plan and meet production volume without sacrificing quality. Oversee department personnel and ensure that department operations run smoothly on a day-to-day basis. Team Leads will be actively a part of production in their department.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Essential job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Direct all activities related to production within your department in accordance with Company plan and goals

• Carryout and manage the overall production plan for your department including innovative production schedules and strategies to streamline factory operations

• Manage and further work processes and procedures to improve production and assign and execute functional responsibilities

• Oversee department personnel and collaborate with the Shop Operations Foreman on performance issues, ongoing training and development, coaching, work assignments and goals

• Collaborate with the Shop Operations Foreman to ensure that all equipment is kept in good working order, including needed maintenance

• Regularly inspect finished products to ensure quality control

• Collaborate with Shop Operations Foreman to determine and purchase all materials, space, and equipment needed for production and anticipation of sales

• Evaluate performance of department personnel with production goals and adjust resources and allocations as needed

• Problem-solve any production or quality issues

• Collaborate with other departments to produce and maintain production reports

• Maintaining a high level of confidential information regarding company innovations and personnel. 

A positive culture is a significant part of our mission and vision, therefore we expect our Managers to be at the forefront of leading and implementing our culture by living out our core values

Secondary job responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Recruit and screen new employees

• Oversee other departments as needed and requested

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Preferred Education and Experience:

• Experience in steel manufacturing environment, small engine, or related field 

• Proven and exceptional leadership experience within a factory setting

• Sound knowledge of industry-specific factory equipment

• Excellent time-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Ability to read schematics, drawings, and other work related documents

• Strong and effective communication skills

Must have a valid Driver’s License and clear motor vehicle report

Maintain a lifestyle that encompasses and is a living example of our core values, primarily focusing on Servant Leadership and Empowerment of those around you. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact with a variety of individuals in a professional, kind, and tactful manner

• Ability to prioritize projects, completing tasks accurately within deadlines

• Intermediate to advanced computer proficiency, especially with Microsoft Office applications

• Exemplary grammar, editing, and proofreading skills

• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills

• Excellent decision making and problem solving skills

Ability to pass a background check upon hire and periodically throughout the course of employment

Working Conditions:

Mental/Motor Demand Factors:

• Ability to demonstrate time awareness, self-direction, concentration, reading skill, writing skill, and tact approximately 90% of the time

• Ability to demonstrate verbal reasoning, math reasoning, independent action, memory skill, and problem solving skill approximately 80% of the time

Physical Demand Factors:

• Ability to stand stationary approximately 45% of the time, walk approximately 45% of the time, and sit approximately 10% of the time

• Ability to demonstrate reaching, crouching, kneeling, grasping, climbing, stooping, pushing, pulling, grasping, feeling, hearing, and repetitive motion skills approximately 75% of the time

• Ability to demonstrate near vision, far vision, depth perception, accommodation vision, color vision, and field of vision approximately 60% of the time

• Ability to lift while stationary, up to 50 pounds, carry while moving, up to 50 pounds, demonstrate stooping, kneeling, crouching, and handling skill approximately 60% of the time

Environmental Condition Factors:

• Ability to work alone 20% of the time 

• Ability to work with others or around others or with customer/public contact 90% of the time

• Ability to work with electrical equipment approximately 20% of the time

• Ability to work with noise approximately 90% of the time

• Ability to work an extended day when needed, approximately 10% of the time

Work Environment:

The work environment involves working in a factory and a place of business that values people and the individual in addition to productivity on the job.

The aforementioned statements are not intended to encompass all functions and qualifications of the position; rather, they are intended to provide a general framework of the requirements of the position.  Job incumbents may be asked to perform tasks not specifically addressed in this job description.