Production Lead

Hydro • Rockledge, Florida • 2w ago

What we offer you

Medical, Rx, Dental, Disability, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts
Retirement Savings Plans with Company Match/Contributions

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Work from schedules, production orders and work instructions, packing instructions, prints and specifications, and instruct, direct, and assist operators
Oversee movement of materials to workstations to meet scheduled shipment dates, monitor set-ups and machine adjustments, and check first pieces of each run and approve as indicated.
Regularly check quantity and quality of production to ensure operators are in compliance with production orders.
Provide assistance and expertise in resolving operational problems.
Devise methods to improvise techniques to compensate for equipment or material deficiencies to produce product to specification and maximize yield.
Perform basic machine maintenance, ensure proper calibration, and perform required maintenance as directed.
Monitor material levels to ensure optimum levels are maintained.
Write Material Review Tickets for Scrap Metal.
Participate in engineering tests, product trails and productivity and quality improvement activities.
Prepare and modify work instructions and packing instructions, if necessary.
Periodically inventory packing supplies and operating supplies.
Coordinate operations with other shifts to maintain awareness of current work in progress and maintain an uninterrupted work flow.

Perform other related duties as assigned to maintain work flow or respond to emergency conditions.
Adheres to all company policies and procedures.
Maintains work area in a clean and orderly condition in accordance with 5 S standards.

Requires the ability to perform all duties to operate all equipment, all within limitation of the standard methods and procedures and in accordance with strict adherence to safety, environmental, quality and productivity requirements.
Serve as production technical trainer, providing training to other operators and trainers.
Implement training plans. Completed training records to HR.
Create training aids.
Enter production data into production and packing computer systems. Provide Department/Shift Supervisor and Production Manager summary reports on shift’s performance. In this report, document unusual conditions or operating problems.

Prepare purchase requests for needed requirements, if necessary.
Attend and participate in a variety of meetings and task force groups to integrate activities, communicate issues, obtain approvals, resolve problems, and maintain a specific level of knowledge pertaining to new developments, requirements, and policies.

EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS:

Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
Knowledge of process related standards.
Proven ability to develop successful partnerships with internal and external team members.
Intermediate or better Microsoft Excel skills.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS: