Team Lead Quality Inspect

Stoughton Trailers, LLC; Brodhead (WI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Stoughton Trailers, LLC is seeking a production supervisor to train and validate manufacturing associates on safety, quality, and productivity. The role involves balancing line work, removing bottlenecks, and maintaining takt to meet production targets.

You will work closely with the Production Supervisor and cross-functionally with other departments to resolve issues and support new programs, ensuring a safe and efficient work environment.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and coaching skills are required to guide manufacturing associates.
• Knowledge of safety standards and quality expectations in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Train and validate associates on safety, quality, and productivity.
• Move associates to balance line work and remove bottlenecks with supervision.
• Maintain takt and ensure workflow meets takt requirements.
• Provide immediate technical answers and coordinate with other departments as needed.
• Support onboarding of new employees and ensure proper tooling and safety measures.

Skills

Leadership

Safety training

Job description

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Exhibit personal performance and attendance at the highest level.
• Train and validate/certify manufacturing associates on safety, quality, and productivity in the workplace. This includes making sure employees are safe and have been trained properly for the work they are performing, both upon initial employment and on a continued basis.
• Move manufacturing associates to balance line work.
• Work with supervisors to remove bottlenecks from the workplace.
• Exhibit leadership in the area associated with rate and technical performance. Be a working example to all team members.
• Utilizes a root cause logical thinking system that simultaneously presents problem solutions along with problem recognitions.
• Align the team by balancing work cells with proper manpower to meet takt requirements. Initiate the actions necessary for goal achievement, and coordinate with the Production Supervisor as needed.
• Assure the people are given the assignments that best allow them to succeed in the area for that particular day’s challenge.
• Be immediately available to employees in the work area to answer technical assembly questions, address production concerns and other technical work functions. Will have to work cross functionally with other departments to complete tasks, when needed.
• Support transitioning new employees to the area of responsibility. (Welcome, ensure they understand what to do, have tooling, etc.). Ensure safety, quality and productivity is met in area of responsibility.
• Responsible for maintaining takt for area of responsibility.
• Takt sheet maintenance.
• QAS and process checklists are complete and being followed.
• Status sheet maintenance.
• Enter Yellow/Red Tags as necessary, enter line moves on the system, and enter DM tags.
• Assist the Production Supervisor in technical performance information on area employees.
• Print board maintenance.
• Work with Production Supervisor to take Safety/Gemba walks and sustain an acceptable level of 5S.
• Perform all assigned tasks in a safe, efficient, timely, and accurate and highly productive manner according to company policy.
• Assure process sheets are being followed and signed off upon.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Support new programs or projects.
• Contribute to the team effort to produce a quality product.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures.
• Act as back up for supervisor. This includes, but is not limited to attending morning meetings, processing reports and/or attendance when supervisor is not present.
• Ability to work mandatory overtime.

Above is a list of the most important responsibilities and functions, which are essential to the position. Employees must be able to perform these essential functions satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Accommodations will be evaluated and provided to eligible employees on a case by case basis, depending on the employee's medical restrictions, work availability, the nature of the position, the position's essential functions and other relevant factors.