Production Lead

Bent Tubes, LLC; Redgranite (WI); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturer in hydraulic components seeks a Production Lead in Redgranite, WI. This role involves training and managing a production team focused on assembling hydraulic hoses and kits, ensuring quality and safety while meeting production demands. Join a team that values hard work and customer satisfaction while enjoying competitive benefits and a collaborative work environment.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with employer match

PTO and holiday pay

Qualifications

• Experience with fluid power and systems preferred.
• Microsoft Word familiarity is beneficial.
• Typing skills of 25 wpm or greater.

Responsibilities

• Ensure production team is trained and organized to meet demands.
• Monitor production requirements and address quality issues.
• Support daily production processes and maintain safety standards.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Communication skills

Judgment and decision-making

Ability to train others

Math skills

Ability to prioritize tasks

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Do you enjoy helping customers achieve their daily goals? At Progressive, LLC in Redgranite, WI our team is driven, hardworking, and enthusiastic about producing quality products and delivering a high level of customer satisfaction. Does this describe how you like to work? If yes, then apply today!

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm and overtime as needed (Day Shift)

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with employer match, PTO, holiday pay and more

Company: For 25 years, Value Added Distributors, and our family of companies has been a leading provider of hydraulic components in the industrial marketplace. Headquartered in Wisconsin, we take pride in our midwestern work ethic and our team of employees, providing outstanding products and unparalleled service to our valued customers. Operating in eight states with eighteen locations throughout the mid-western, southern, and eastern United States, we utilize state of the art equipment and employ the newest techniques allowing us to offer advancement opportunities in a continually growing OEM landscape.

Job Overview:

The Production Lead is responsible for ensuring the production team is trained, organized and set for the day to meet production demands. The production team assembles hydraulic hoses and assorted production/assembly kits. Duties include cutting hoses, attaching fittings, crimping and cleaning hoses, and ensuring they are packaged for shipment. The Production Lead determines the various unit structures, allocates resources and participates in regional planning. A Production Lead enforces safe work practices by communicating safety policies and practices with the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• In conjunction with the Plant Manager, monitor production requirements / capacities and monitor work force daily activities, ensuring all Standard Operating Procedures are followed.
• Addresses quality issues and support actions necessary to reduce the number of nonconformances.
• Assists production of orders, prepare goods for shipment and other day-to-day activities.
• Enters data into workplace systems.
• Maintains a sense of urgency with self and the team to support customer quality and delivery expectations while achieving profitability targets.
• Ensures training is completed by the team to maximize operations.
• Builds effective working relationships with customers, direct reports, peers, managers, vendors, etc.
• Embrace continuous improvement activities and promote employee empowerment, while working to achieve company goals and objectives.
• Responsible either directly or indirectly for the procuring of materials, supplies or any other items necessary for the daily operation.
• Ability to achieve and exceed production goals.
• Identifies and solves quality concerns in a timely manner. Possess and leads with a sense of urgency in a fast-paced environment.
• Follows safety standards, policies, and updates.
• This is not an all-encompassing description of duties, and one should anticipate additional tasks will be assigned.

Competencies (Skills & Qualifications):

• Strong mechanical aptitude for determining how objects work and move in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) enhance the team culture that is open, respectful and transparent, which leads to excellent customer service.
• Sense of urgency in fast paced environment to meet customer needs.
• Solid judgment and decision-making skills to assess situations or circumstances using relevant information and apply experience to conclude or decide next steps.
• Ability and desire to train others in proper procedures, safe work practices, and adhering to quality standards.
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities at once by focusing on one task while keeping track of another.
• Ability to safely lift to 30 pounds using proper lifting techniques.
• Ability to utilize and read tape measures and digital calipers (length, width, thickness, diameter or depth of an object or hole).
• Ability to apply basic math skills (add, subtract, multiply, divide).
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, and prioritize tasks.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Application and troubleshooting experience with fluid power and systems preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Word.
• Type 25 wpm or greater.

Workplace Environment:

• At any one of the Value Added Companies, the environment can be associated with manufacturing, office, retail, and laboratory.
• The manufacturing environment and laboratory requires Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as defined by each facility. PPE could include eye protection, face shield, gloves, masks, and closed toed shoes. The manufacturing environment is not climate controlled and may become warm in the summer and cooler in the winter.
• The office and retail spaces at Value Added Companies are climate-controlled by the season and location of the facility.

An Equal Opportunity Employer