Team Lead, Production - 1st Shift

Taco, Inc.; Cranston (RI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries & benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Career development & on-site training

Profit sharing & employee well-being

Job summary

Taco, Inc. is seeking a Team Lead, Production to coordinate a manufacturing group on the 1st shift.

You will ensure production schedules and quality targets are met, review work orders and specifications, and oversee resource allocation to meet daily and monthly goals. The role emphasizes adherence to safety standards, maintaining inventory accuracy, and timely communication with planners, warehouse, and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Requires High School Diploma or equivalent.
• 2+ years of production experience.
• Ability to navigate Epicor ERP and access production data.
• Ability to manage time to meet deadlines and production volumes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate materials, machines and personnel resources to meet daily production targets.
• Provide materials to the cell as needed.
• Schedule jobs, perform inventory checks and weekly cycle counts.
• Rearrange personnel to optimize workflow while maintaining safety standards.
• Resolve daily issues with warehouse, planners and engineering teams.
• Audit all jobs entering the packing area to ensure they meet expectations before shipment.
• Modify the production schedule to address material shortages.
• Walk through cells to ensure correct jobs and adherence to MPS.
• Ensure operators wear safety equipment.
• Troubleshoot equipment or escalate to resolve downtime.
• Manage production boards and track daily production.
• Attend daily production meetings and communicate issues and corrective actions.

Skills

Team leadership

Production coordination

ERP navigation

Inventory management

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Associate's degree

Tools

Epicor ERP

PowerBI

Forklift operation license

Job description

As a family-owned and operated company, we feel a special obligation to the employees who comprise our Taco family. We are committed to offering employees access to the tools necessary to live long and productive lives. We strive to instill in all of our employees:

• A positive mental attitude that helps us to be a leader in the industry
• A commitment to building strong relationships, both inside and outside the organization
• A desire to learn, grow, and contribute to moving our strategy forward
• A need to create and to innovate

Employment Type: Regular Full-Time

Shift: 1st Shift

Work Status: On-site

Position Summary

The Team Lead, Production coordinates employees within a manufacturing group. Ensures adherence to production schedules and quality expectations to achieve daily and monthly production and financial targets. Reviews work orders, product specifications, technical instructions. Initiates and follows up to completion on facility requests, tool requisition, equipment downtime and supplies for the production area. Coordinates labor and equipment resource allocation based on production plan. Reviews and compiles operations records, such as daily production, first pass yield, scrap, down time, and corrective actions.

Measures of success:

• Meets or exceeds daily production requirements against attainment target
• Ensures inventory transaction accuracy against job requirements
• Meets all quality requirements as documented
• Adherence to daily punch practices for direct labor employees

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Coordinate materials, machines and personnel resources to meet daily production targets.
• Provide materials to the cell as needed.
• Schedule jobs, perform inventory checks and weekly cycle counts to ensure all materials are available.
• Rearrange personnel to ensure work flow while maintaining departmental cleanliness and safety standards
• Resolve daily issues preventing the achievement of goals thru close interaction with the warehouse, planners and engineering teams
• Audit all jobs that enter the packing area to ensure they meet expectations before they are shipped to a customer
• Modify the production schedule to overcome material shortages or Bill of Material issues. Communicates with planners and supervisor of the schedule change and its impact
• Walk through all cells to ensure that personnel are working on the correct jobs and following MPS instructions
• Ensures that all operators have safety equipment in place
• Troubleshoots equipment and outsources the problem if necessary, Troubleshoot Equipment
• Ensure production boards are correctly scanned throughout the day while addressing and correcting the issues leading to cell downtimeCommunicates within the department and between shifts in order to ensure that the department runs efficient.
• Manages production spreadsheets to pass along to the next shift, as well as tracks daily production volume and production schedule.
• Attends daily production meetings to convey all issues impacting schedule achievement, state corrective actions taken and follow up with stakeholders on actions impacting the area.

Qualifications

Required:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 2+ years of production experience
• Ability to navigate multiple windows in company Enterprise Resource Program (ERP) system to access production and resource data
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions and effectively apply to assigned work
• Ability to perform repetitive work requiring constant alertness or activity, and including standing and lifting
• Ability to manage time effectively to meet strict time deadlines and production volumes
• Requires judgment to comply with instructions, prescribed routines, methods and practices
• Minimal to no travel

Preferred:

• Associate's degree from two-year college or technical school
• 4+ years of production experience
• 1+ year of leading a team
• Len 5S Certification
• Experience and/or license to operate a forklift
• Knowledge of Epicor ERP and PowerBI

This position works primarily in a production floor environment where large equipment and noise are prevalent. Safety gear is required in these areas.

This position reports into the site every day.

This position has no direct reports.

With nearly 1,000 people working at Taco worldwide, each with their own story, you will discover a sense of community and diverse, intelligent colleagues who help us innovate, create and explore.

Taco employees benefit from a company that:

• Provides competitive salaries and benefits
• Offers tuition reimbursement, career development, and on-site training programs in our learning center
• Believes in sharing profits with its employees
• Is mindful about family, health and well-being
• Fosters conditions that allow people and communities to reach their full potential