Mezzanine Team Lead - 1st Shift

US Farathane

Riverside (MO)

On-site

USD 55,000 - 75,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K with company match

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Referral bonuses

Paid Holidays

Paid Vacation

Career development

Climate controlled environment

Job summary

US Farathane is seeking a 1st Shift Mezzanine Team Lead to train and coach mezzanine operators, focusing on safety and productive material flow. The role ensures proper material delivery to cells to meet quality and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities include enforcing safety procedures, coordinating with other leads, managing material shortages, and maintaining material logs for traceability. The position requires strong supervision and hands-on problem solving in a manufacturing

Qualifications

Reads and interprets safety rules, operating instructions, and procedures.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Speaks effectively before groups of customers or employees.
Performs basic math tasks including rates and graphs.
Uses common sense to carry out instructions and solve problems.

Responsibilities

Ensure safety procedures are followed and housekeeping is maintained.
Train and coach mezzanine operators with emphasis on safety and productivity.
Coordinate material flow to maintain molding schedule and material traceability.
Review area readiness and prioritize safety concerns with team Lead.
Manage material changeovers, drying and cleaning to avoid contamination.
Maintain accurate material logs and ensure proper identification of all materials.

Skills

Reading documents/interpreting rules

Communication skills

Mathematical ability

Problem solving

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

US Farathane is seeking a 1st Shift Mezzanine Team Lead. The position is responsible tor providing proper training and coaching to all the mezzanine operators with emphasis on safety. The Team Leader is responsible for ensuring the proper material is delivered to the cell/area to achieve optimal productivity, quality, and safety to assure internal and external customer satisfaction.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Comply with all internal and OSHA required safety procedures. Maintain and fulfill housekeeping requirements.
Address and take immediate action on all Safety related issues and elevate to your supervisor!
Communicate with preceding and oncoming Mezz Team Lead. Review entire work area, priorities, housekeeping and all safety concerns and overall condition of area.
Check availability and order necessary materials from warehouse to maintain molding schedule, executing material transactions properly.
Review possible material shortage conditions with preceding and oncoming Team Lead.
Notify supervisor of material shortage conditions immediately.
Participate in shift meetings, problem solving activities, and improvement efforts.
Maintain material logs recording necessary material components and lot numbers as required per plant procedures to ensure material traceability.
During job set up, review the schedule to ensure correct material/component usage.
For material changeovers, clean & clear drying material, bin hoppers, receivers, grinders, and hoses to ensure that previous materials are removed and material contamination does - use air hose provided.
Clean and properly identify all material to ensure the necessary transaction documentation is executed when returning material to storage, this includes regrind.
Set up materials to properly pre-dry ahead of material changeovers.
Blend colors, additives per scheduled requirements.
Maintain necessary material levels at feed bins to ensure non-interrupted flow of material to molding, must always keep hoppers full.
Provide virgin material for molding machine changeovers to meet molding schedule. This requires loading material and drying bins.
Maintain FIFO, (First In-First Out) always.
Maintain proper identification of all materials in the central feed area and individual machines.
Perform necessary moisture testing of materials per internal and customer requirements.
Monitor moisture read outs using touch screens.
Monitor and control the required settings and dryer temperatures using touch screens.
Monitor and control the required material settings for bin temperature using touch screens.
Perform Preventative Maintenance as required.
Create Work Orders when needed and inform supervisor of Work Order.
Clean, change as necessary, dryer, canister and receiver filters. See Standard Work on frequency.
Monitor job material usage using equipment monitors.
Adhere to all company policies and procedures (i.e., quality policy manual, employee policy guide, Level II procedures, etc.)
All gaylords\boxes with material MUST be covered at all times to avoid contamination.

Qualifications

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance; and talk or hear; and lift or move up to 50 pounds. The employee must occasionally stoop, kneel, or crouch and lift or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus, depth perception, peripheral vision, distance vision, and close vision. In addition, the employee must have the ability to distinguish color variation.

Working Conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and may also be exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The employee may occasionally be exposed to extreme heat and/or risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

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