Team Leader- Assembly

Major Tool & Machine; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance with zero employee premium

401k company match

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Onsite fitness center

Job summary

Major Tool & Machine in Indianapolis is seeking a B20 Assembly Team Leader. This role involves leading a manufacturing team to safely and efficiently produce quality parts, ensuring project and safety targets are met.

The ideal candidate will have strong machining skills, leadership experience, and a minimum of five years in manufacturing. Excellent benefits and a supportive work environment are provided.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of High School Diploma or GED.
• Five years minimum manufacturing experience required.
• Must be highly competent in the trade.

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing personnel to machine and fabricate quality parts.
• Conduct planning of jobs and troubleshoot shop floor issues.
• Evaluate skill level and performance of personnel.

Skills

Machining skills

Leadership skills

Problem-solving

Team management

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Trade School / Vocational School education

Job description

Major Tool & Machine (MTM) takes great pride in the talented people that come to work here. We offer market leading pay, benefits, optional 4/10 work schedule, quarterly bonus potential and a culture focused on employee engagement.

Our work is essential to the world as we provide CNC machining, manual and robotic welding, engineering, program management, inspection, assembly and cleanroom services on a large scale projects to our customers in the Space, Defense, Energy, Nuclear, and Commercial Industries.

Whether you are looking for a place to put your current strong skills to work in a more challenging, purpose filled environment, or you ultimately want long term professional growth and advancement opportunities, this could be the place for you.

Position Title: B20 Assembly Team Leader

Position Summary: Responsible for leading manufacturing personnel to safely machine and fabricate quality parts on time within the estimated hours. Serves as a technical resource for the team. Ensures that the team objectives are met, including project, cost, quality and safety related factors.

Reports To: Operational Department Manager

Personnel: Manufacturing personnel assigned to team

Accountabilities: To lead a team to produce quality parts, on time, at the processed hours. Performance will be judged by work center efficiencies, indirect of direct and non-conformances. To lead the team to maintain their area, according to 6S and Lean Manufacturing standards. Play an integral part in the hiring, training and development of team members. Must also ensure team members are held accountable to performance expectations, and initiate appropriate performance feedback and discipline according to company policy.

Authorities: Determine how jobs routed to work centers will be setup and processed. Assign personnel to appropriate tasks based on skill set. Arrange necessary overtime schedules.

Duties:

• Conduct planning of jobs
• Attend Production Control meetings as scheduled
• Attend pre-release planning meetings
• Trouble‑shoot shop floor issues
• Coordinate programming preparation with the programmer (machining teams only)
• Review and approve each CNC program edit request submitted. (machining teams only)
• Review Priority Dispatch Lists (PDLs) and assign personnel to support the plan. Attend job release meetings to advise engineer and gain advance information about upcoming jobs.
• Provide daily email carryover to off‑shift supervisors and workcenters. Carryover shall dictate what each workcenter is expected to work on as well as provide crucial information obtained during that shift. (Machining TL's only)
• Determine if overtime is needed to support the plan, get overtime approval from department manager
• Advise and assist personnel with technical support. Conduct regular team meetings.
• Evaluate skill level and performance of personnel.
• Investigate any anomalies‑ Non‑Conformances (NC's), job overruns, accidents, incidents, define and implement appropriate corrective actions.
• Provide any support to team members to help them do their job - material, supplies, instructions, etc.
• Review and approve each team member's charged labor to ensure the time charged to jobs is being reported accurately.

Job Qualification Requirements

Educational Experience: Minimum requirement of High School Diploma or GED; with additional Trade School / Vocational School education, some college education or relevant job experience not less than three years in either machining or fabrication.

Experience: Must be highly competent in the trade responsible for leading. Five years minimum manufacturing experience. Previous supervisory experience is desired, but not required.

Physical Demands:

• stand, walk, push, pull, reach overhead, and bend to floor
• exert 20 or 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or
• exert 10 or 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or
• exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Certification Required: Not applicable

Visual Acuity: Near acuity and accommodation are required for reading machine dial gauges, blueprints, and precision measuring instruments used in the inspection of parts and machinery.

Hearing Ability: Ability to monitor machine sounds to identify and diagnose changes in order to take appropriate action. Ability to communicate with employees.

Working Conditions:

• High noise levels from machinery
• Physical hazards from moving equipment and production components
• Breathing fumes, dust and mist
• Skin exposure to oils and cutting fluids
• Welding flashes

Attendance is an essential job function.

Employees will operate in compliance of all recognized standards that Major Tool adheres to (such as AS9100, ISO 9000), including all supporting policies and procedures.

About Major Tool

Major Tool & Machine (MTM) was founded in 1946, starting with only four employees to support the commercialization of the jet engine following World War II. Today, MTM is a contract manufacturer in Indianapolis, Indiana with a 600,000+ sq ft. manufacturing facility, 400+ skilled employees, best‑in‑industry business and quality systems, and project management expertise. Located for easy access on the east side of downtown Indianapolis, we are short commute away from most any place in the counties surrounding Indianapolis. Major Tool is a Precinmac company, a portfolio of businesses across the US and Canada that provide similar machining, fabrication and other manufacturing services to customers who provide critical services in turn in their various industries. Our Precinmac values are Trust, Gratitude, Action, Excellence and Growth, with a commitment to live these out daily in our workplaces.

Benefits

Excellent Benefits including three health insurance plan options – with a base plan option requiring ZERO employee paid premium. Dental and vision plans have very reasonable employee premiums. Participants in our health insurance have the onsite clinic available at no additional charge for medical services. All employees can access the mental health services provided in the clinic, For HDHP health insurance options, we contribute to your health savings account (HSA) and offer other flexible spending account (FSA) options. We support your retirement goals with a 401k company match. In addition to work schedule options we provide immediate Paid Time Off (PTO) availability and 10 paid Holidays, Along with in house training programs, we offer educational assistance for coursework that will support your career growth at Major Tool, We care about the health of our employees and provide a tobacco free facility, onsite fitness center and wellness events, short and long term disability and life insurance coverage fully paid.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.