Production Coach: Lean Leader, Team Development

LEAR CORPORATION; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Lear Corporation at the FARWELL, MI plant seeks a Production Coach responsible for leading manufacturing personnel to meet quality, safety, productivity, schedule and delivery goals daily. The role ensures training, tools and equipment availability for quality work and continuous improvement through Lean/Kaizen practices.

You will drive problem-solving with team leaders, coordinate with Quality to implement corrective actions, and push for 5S, waste reduction and CI culture across production

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate ability in maintaining positive employment relation.
• Maintain a high level of integrity.
• Excellent organizational and computer skills.

Responsibilities

• Daily review and identification of top quality performance issues.
• Lead review with team leaders to develop solutions or preventative measures.
• Coordinate with Quality department to investigate, identify and implement corrective actions with the production team.
• Lead Teams and Team Leaders to continuously improve quality metrics and targets.
• Work with Team Leaders to drive efficiency by utilizing the production system and driving back issues to the team.
• Ensure that operators are following SWI’s and lead team to continuously find SWI improvements.
• Train all team members on Lean/Kaizen principles to help support a CI Culture and enable teams to identify and address “just do it” opportunities and resolve workplace issues independently.
• Drive teams to actively pursue Team Member roles and tasks outside of work station assembly.
• Support and lead team Kaizen activities.
• Manage and ensure effective cross-training levels at all times to 100% job rotations within teams.

Skills

Communication

Labor relations

Integrity

Org & Computer Skills

Job description

Lear Corporation at the FARWELL, MI plant seeks a Production Coach responsible for leading manufacturing personnel to meet quality, safety, productivity, schedule and delivery goals daily. The role ensures training, tools and equipment availability for quality work and continuous improvement through Lean/Kaizen practices.

You will drive problem-solving with team leaders, coordinate with Quality to implement corrective actions, and push for 5S, waste reduction and CI culture across production