Production Lead

Verus Aerospace; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Verus Aerospace is seeking a Lean Manufacturing Leader to direct people, processes and systems to meet safety, quality and productivity goals in Tacoma, WA. You will apply Lean tools, drive continuous improvement and develop standard work across production cells.

Responsibilities include coaching teams, cross-training, ensuring training records, and collaborating with engineering, programming and maintenance to achieve 5S and throughput targets while meeting budget objectives.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED, plus college-level courses or equivalent training in manufacturing.
• Minimum 3 years of progressive milling experience as journey level.
• Certification from an accredited technical college is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Applies Lean Manufacturing principles to improve safety, quality, service and cost.
• Drive innovation and change by communicating on key business initiatives and promoting employee engagement.
• Establish routine work practices and audits to ensure continuous improvement to 5S level.
• Ensure Standard Work is established and maintained for all processes.
• Develop, train and involve employees in maintaining and improving safety, efficiency, productivity, quality, cooperation and morale.
• Ensure employees are trained to do their work and their training is documented. Execute cross-training and personal development strategies for direct reports.
• Model Workplace Expectations and coach employees to meet the same level of expectations in a respectful and thoughtful manner.
• Actively promotes and supports a safe work environment and ensures all employees work in a safe manner.
• Ensures all employees are properly trained in all safety procedures.
• Meet quality objectives by ensuring compliance to quality systems.
• Plan, organize and supervise all shift operations in accordance with production schedules. Maintain status of production, redeploy resources as required. Set and communicates expectations for daily production.
• Work closely with cross-functional groups to develop continuous improvement plans (i.e. engineering, programming, maintenance and quality) in order to achieve plant and work cell objectives.
• Ensures that throughput goals are attained and budget criteria is met or surpassed.]
• Education and Experience:
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

Team leadership

Problem solving

English communication

Blueprint reading

GD&T knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Machining operations knowledge

Education

High school diploma

Technical certification in manufacturing

Job description

Responsible for leading and developing people, processes and systems that ensure the highest safety, quality, productivity, and efficiency standards are achieved by applying Lean Manufacturing principles and tools.

• Workforce is safe and incident-free
• Continuous Improvement culture is developed and fostered
• Standard Work is in place for all processes
• Employees are meeting established Workplace Expectations
• Customer schedules and quality requirements are met
• First Pass Yields > 98%
• Budget and productivity goals and objectives are met

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Applies Lean Manufacturing principles and tools to improve all aspects of safety, quality, service and cost.
• Drive innovation and change by communicating on key business initiatives and promoting employee engagement and involvement.
• Establish routine work practices and audits to ensure continuous improvement to 5S level.
• Ensure Standard Work is established and maintained for all processes.
• Develop, train and involve employees in maintaining and improving safety, efficiency, productivity, quality, cooperation and morale.
• Ensure employees are trained to do their work and their training is documented. Execute cross-training and personal development strategies for direct reports.
• Model Workplace Expectations and coach employees to meet the same level of expectations in a respectful and thoughtful manner.
• Actively promotes and supports a safe work environment and ensures all employees work in a safe manner.
• Ensures all employees are properly trained in all safety procedures.
• Meet quality objectives by ensuring compliance to quality systems.
• Plan, organize and supervise all shift operations in accordance with production schedules. Maintain status of production, redeploy resources as required. Set and communicates expectations for daily production.
• Work closely with cross-functional groups to develop continuous improvement plans (i.e. engineering, programming, maintenance and quality) in order to achieve plant and work cell objectives.
• Ensures that throughput goals are attained and budget criteria is met or surpassed.

Position Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to facilitate team problem solving, and communicate both orally and in writing.
• Working knowledge across all machining operations.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, summarize, and maintain information.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain effective interpersonal relations.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute effectively to a team effort.
• Ability to find, analyze, and solve problems.
• Proficiency in math, blueprint reading and geometric tolerancing
• Ability to effectively read, write and verbally communicate in English
• High school plus college level courses or equivalent training in manufacturing, machining, or equivalent required.
• Two to three years’ leadership experience in related aerospace production operations.
• Experienced Journey Machinist preferred.
• Must have worked with shop metrics, efficiency, productivity, utilization, and continuous improvement projects

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Certification from an accredited technical college a plus
• Minimum 3 years of progressive milling experience as journey level.
• Aerospace industry experience is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Required Skills

• Possess basic math and geometry knowledge with elementary knowledge of engineering principals helpful
• Ability to read blueprints, follow work order and verbal instructions
• Knowledgeable of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)