Cold Room Lead A Shift

Flex; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex is seeking a Cold Room Lead in Salt Lake City, Utah. This role reports to the Production Supervisor and involves providing leadership and direction to groups of employees to meet production goals.

The candidate will supervise daily activities, promote 5S+1 and quality practices, and mentor staff while coordinating resources and materials to minimize downtime.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Flex technologies and manufacturing techniques.
• High level of competency and process knowledge while leading manufacturing processes.
• Ability to conduct on the job training and lead employees.
• Ability to understand and speak English.
• Ability to effectively present information in one on one and small group situations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate department headcount and resource requirements.
• Communicate priority tasks daily and lead production goals.
• Alert other departments about planned and unplanned downtime.
• Ensure lines are supplied with materials to avoid downtime.
• Promote 5S+1 and quality assurance practices; mentor employees.

Skills

Leadership

Team supervision

Training

Communication

English proficiency

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Cold Room Lead located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Reporting to the Production Supervisor, the Lead role involves being responsible for providing leadership and direction to groups of employees.

What a typical day looks like:

• Coordinate people resource requirements for the department.
• Communicate priority tasks to team daily and lead efforts towards production goals.
• Help alert other departments about planned and unplanned downtime.
• Avoid downtime due to material shortages by ensuring that lines are supplied with sufficient materials.
• Update “pass down” and “down time” communication reports to ensure communication flow with opposite shift.
• Follow quality indicators and help alert others if predefined indicators fall below the target.
• Organize employees’ at assigned workstations and rearrange assignments when necessary.
• Identify cause of mass failures and make the necessary adjustments to overcome errors.
• Motivate and mentor individual employees and small groups of employees.
• Monitor employees’ performance and communicate to trainers what additional training is needed.
• Have the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform all job requirements in area of responsibility.
• Be a leader in promoting compliance with 5S+1 and quality assurance practices.
• Be supervisors first point of contact and be able to fill in for supervisor when necessary.
• Ensure that accepted reasonable accommodations are met for employees in area of responsibility.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Is proficient in all Flex technologies and manufacturing techniques.
• Demonstrates a high level of competency and functional/ process knowledge while leading manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrates broad knowledge of manufacturing techniques and may improve processes by applying new techniques.
• Be able to conduct on the job training and lead employees.
• Ability to understand and speak English.
• Ability to effectively present information in one on one and small group situations to other employees.

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