Welding Team Lead - 2nd Shift

Kinney Manufacturing, LLC; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinney Manufacturing, LLC is seeking a Team Lead to guide production teams in Lincoln, NE. The role focuses on coaching, safety, quality control, and meeting the production schedule through effective resource planning.

You will coordinate with Area Lead, Production Manager and Safety/Quality personnel to ensure efficient operations, proper material flow, and accurate time logging. This position emphasizes teamwork and hands-on production responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Six months to one year related experience or training.

Responsibilities

• Safety & Environment: ensure team compliance with safety rules and training.
• Quality: ensure quality output, flag issues, escalate when needed.
• Delivery: meet production schedule and coordinate materials with Area Lead.
• Productivity: balance workforce and communicate overtime needs.
• Preventive Maintenance: own PM on area equipment and coordinate repairs.
• Assigns jobs to team based on training and capacity to meet schedule.
• Ensure parts are tagged and tracked in the system.
• Log hours for all team members in the department.
• Stage materials and set clear time expectations.
• Collaborate with other Team Leads and handle ongoing production tasks.

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching

Safety compliance

Quality focus

Production planning

Job description

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

A Team Lead serves as the primary resource for all production team members within their respective production team. Responsibilities include maintaining and enhancing operations by coaching, instructing and coordinating production activities with the Area Lead, the Production Manager & Production Coordinator, and Safety and Quality personnel to reach desired metrics.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Safety & Environment: Ensures team participation and compliance with safety and environmental rules and training.
• Quality: Ensures quality output from team members, flags quality issues, resolves quality issues immediately. If it is not possible to immediately resolve the issue, quarantines the order and escalates the issue to the Area Lead or to the Quality Team.
• Delivery: Ensures production schedule is being met. Works with Area Lead to request materials, tools, information or additional resourced when needed to meet schedule requirements.
• Productivity: Reviewed resources that are available and needed to meet production schedule and works with Area Lead to balance workforce across the plant. Reviews needs and communicates wit the team regarding overtime.
• Ensures equipment is in proper working order. Owns Preventive Maintenance on area equipment and requests work orders from Maintenance personnel when required for repairs.
• Assigns jobs to team members based on team member's training and ability, while meeting the needs of the production schedule and ensuring material flow across departments.
• Responsible to ensure that all parts are tagged properly when in their department and when leaving the department.
• Responsible for all jobs being completed and parts claimed in the computer system with time required and any rework or scrap.
• Responsible for ensuring that hours are logged in the computer systems for all team members working in the department.
• Stage required job materials.
• Set clear time expectations.
• Work with other Team Leads.
• Working production jobs.

QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be substituted for the expected levels of education and experience required.

Education and/or Experience:

• Six months to one year related experience and/or training.

Communication Skills:

• Must be able to read, write and comprehend the English language.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

Other Skills:

• Corrected vision and dexterous use of both hands.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• This is strenuous work requiring good corrected vision, balance, standing continuously for periods of up to 5 hours, and repetitive stooping, kneeling, reaching, pinching and lifting.

Our Culture and Our Beliefs

Kinney Manufacturing strives to keep things simple. Some parts we produce have critical tolerance and very precise applications, but they are still a metal part. Based on this, we always need to keep our activities in perspective. We expect our team members to come to work each day with the expectation of working safely, making good quality parts and being productive. We then want our team members to go home and enjoy their time away from Kinney Manufacturing with their family and friends.

Kinney Manufacturing's commitment is to provide our customers, suppliers and team members with the information and/or materials to accomplish their activities efficiently and without drama. We want to communicate information clearly and only once, and then we all can have the expectation that the work will be completed.

We want to treat everyone that interacts with Kinney Manufacturing fairly and how we would want to be treated in return. Living by this simple concept should make it obvious how to solve problems and help others.

We believe that the key to maintaining and growing a successful business is to answer the phone when people call and deliver product on-time. Quality parts and a competitive price have become a requirement to be in business these days, and it is only with great customer service that our business will thrive.