661/3rd shift (Paper line) Team Lead

Parker Hannifin; Kearney (NE); On-site; USD 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Paid Time Off

13 Company-Paid Holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Parker Hannifin, a Fortune 250 global leader, seeks a Team Leader for Baldwin Filters operations in Nebraska. You will oversee production resources, drive quality, safety, and delivery, and work with engineers and maintenance to optimize throughput.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong problem-solving, and a focus on cost control, efficiency, and continuous improvement within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma required with 2–3 years manufacturing experience.
• Preferred: Business or technical degree.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills valuable.

Responsibilities

• Lead production area while ensuring quality and productivity.
• Monitor safety and ethics on site and ensure compliance.
• Coordinate with maintenance and other departments to optimize throughput.
• Manage labor distribution and staffing to meet schedules.
• Drive cost control and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Team leadership

Safety awareness

Education

High School Diploma

Business or Technical Degree (preferred)

Tools

Gensuite

Job description

Marketing Statement

Baldwin Filters, a brand of Parker Engine Mobile Aftermarket Division (EMAM), is a global provider of heavy-duty filtration products for engine powered equipment. Our mission is to protect our customers’ engines and mobile equipment, from first to last use, through innovative filtration solutions and outstanding customer service. Baldwin offers superb product quality, an extensive distribution network and the industry’s broadest product line. This comprehensive portfolio of filtration products and technologies offers customers a single streamlined source for all their engine and mobile filtration needs.

• Construction
• Agricultural
• Oil & Gas
• Mining & Power Generation
• Marine

Org Marketing Statement

Baldwin Filters, a brand of Parker Engine Mobile Aftermarket Division (EMAM), is a global provider of heavy-duty filtration products for engine powered equipment. Our mission is to protect our customers’ engines and mobile equipment, from first to last use, through innovative filtration solutions and outstanding customer service. Baldwin offers superb product quality, an extensive distribution network and the industry’s broadest product line. This comprehensive portfolio of filtration products and technologies offers customers a single streamlined source for all their engine and mobile filtration needs.

Our Filters Are Found In All Industries Worldwide

• On-Highway (Heavy Duty)
• On-Highway (Medium & Light Duty)
• Construction
• Agricultural
• Oil & Gas
• Mining & Power Generation
• Marine

Join Our Team

Our global success is based on a simple equation: an empowered workforce operating in a supportive environment fosters innovative ideas and solutions. Join the Parker team and realize your future in making a positive impact on the world.

Position Summary

Team Leaders takes overall responsibility for the efficient operation of their areas production resources. Team Leads have key responsibilities for quality and productivity, and they make an important contribution to overall cost control and profitability based on their execution of the day-to-day plan.

Responsibilities

Safety

• Follow all safety policies and practices.
• Enter Gensuite items when incidents are identified.
• Complete open Gensuite items on time and completely for the area.
• Tracking and communicating all safety card problems turned in by team members.
• Area Safety walks as part of 5S in area – conducted throughout the day and report timely.
• Under the guidance of their supervisor, monitor workers on site during production activities to ensure adherence to ethics and safety procedures.
• Evaluate manufacturing equipment for safety and functionality.

Quality

Team Leads are on the front line and must take personal responsibility for quality or liaise with a quality management team to ensure that product quality meets the standards customers expect. Team Leads must monitor the quality performance and ensure that production workers adhere to quality policies. Team Leads act to deal with quality problems so that they can minimize waste or reworking on the production line.

• Under the guidance of their supervisor, Team Leaders is to ensure all team members follow all engineering and quality requirements and documentation in performance of duties.
• Ensure that products and goods manufactured meet quality standards.
• Check finished products to ensure quality, and that industry standards are met before they are declared ready for use.

• Final Product Inspections are completed on all orders.

• Ensure inspections are completed accurately and timely.
• Ensure all inspections are filed correctly daily.
• Ensuring proper process documentation is in the area.
• Ensuring all products moved off the line are correctly identified.
• Communication with quality on all issues related to product quality concerns.
• TIB Tracking for quality is accurate and updated daily weekly and monthly on time.

• Ensure Action items are identified and completed.

• Participate in all quality meetings related to non-conforming products from area.
• Ensure Quality Star point members are identified and assigned to meeting.

Delivery

Resource allocation is an important responsibility for Team Leaders. Under the guidance of the supervisor, Team Leaders can decide which machines to use and how many production line workers to deploy using information supplied to them from build documents like the “Bill of Operations”. Team Leaders must look to use the minimum resources, when necessary, while meeting production and delivery deadlines. Overtime may be necessary to meet urgent delivery dates or increase production levels. By improving efficiency and productivity, Team Leaders can ensure that they can meet production deadlines and reduce costs. Team Leaders help the Supervisor analyze manufacturing data to identify any production bottlenecks or eliminate unnecessary processes. Team Leaders works directly with Production Engineers to identify ways to improve the speed or accuracy of production equipment. Team Leaders also wok with area trainers to improve the skills of the team members in the area.

Responsibilities Breakdown

• Responsible for insuring goals are being tracked.
• Motivate workers to enhance production quantity and at the same time maintain high production standards.
• Safety, Quality, Delivery, and cost

• Labor Efficiency
• Delivery Efficiency
• Defective Parts Per Million goals

• Responsible for Escalation of all issues to the area supervisor and plant manager
• Follow escalation plan.
• Communicate all occurrences of downtime to leadership.
• Supervisor
• Managers
• Engineers
• Maintenance
• Insure all workorders are placed for all equipment downtime.
• Ensure a time frame is given for all downtime and communicate to Supervisor.

Cost

By controlling or reducing production costs, Team Leaders helps the company maintain profit levels. Team Leaders helps the area supervisor analyze different elements of production to identify potential cost savings. They assist Manufacturing Engineering and lean resources in identifying certain processes that can be improved to increase throughput and reduce labor requirements. Team Leaders works closely with all other departments. They work with the procurement team to ensure that supplies of materials and components are available when they are needed. Team Leaders assists when necessary to provide specifications for the procurement team as well as report on the quality and performance of the company’s suppliers. Team Leaders also works closely with the warehouse team to coordinate supplies to the area timely. Responsibility Breakdown: Responsible for insuring schedules are being followed.

• Working with planning to insure we are scheduled in the most efficient manner.
• Under the direction of the supervisor, ensure all labor is properly distributed.
• During processing times (Proper Manning is followed)

• Keep records of workers performance to efficiency goal o During downtime (Labor is moved to earn time)

• Keep records of equipment’s, budgets, deliveries, and supplies, and make them available to management for evaluation

• Work as a liaison between employees and supervisor to create healthy communication.
• Ensure that work materials are present as at when needed.
• Responsible for meeting the following goals:
• Safety,
• Efficiency,
• Scrap, and
• Delivery.

THIS POSITION IS NOT TO BE CONSIDERED AS A COMPLETE LISTING OF THE ASSIGNMENTS THAT MAY BE GIVEN TO ANY EMPLOYEE. OTHER APPROPRIATE DUTIES MAY BE ASSIGNED THAT ARE NOT LISTED IN THE DESCRIPTION

Qualifications

Required: High School Diploma, with 2-3 years manufacturing experience Preferred: Business or Technical Degree

Competitive Compensation

• Hourly pay range for this role is $25.69-$30.89
• Participation in Annual Incentive Program

Benefits And Retirement Plans

• Parker offers competitive benefit programs, including:
• Comprehensive coverage for medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, voluntary optional life, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance and critical illness insurance with competitive premium cost.
• 401(k) Plan with company matching contributions at 100% of the first 5% of pay
• Company provided defined-contribution retirement plan with annual contribution equal to 3% of pay
• Career development and tuition reimbursement
• Additional benefits including paid parental leave, short and long-term disability programs, adoption assistance, Care.com membership and financial planning assistance are provided at no cost to you.
• Supplemental benefit programs including identity protection, legal protection, and pet wellness are available at competitive rates.
• Paid Time Off and 13 Company-Paid Holidays.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in‑plant & industrial equipment, off‑highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people‑first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affi “(the full EEO statement is preserved verbatim and continues as originally provided).

Drug-Free Workplace

In accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug‑free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.