Zone Team Lead - 1st Shift

J.B. Poindexter & Co.; Riverside, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Morgan Truck Body LLC in Riverside, CA is seeking a manufacturing team supervisor to lead production teams in achieving on-time delivery and quality targets. You will provide objectives, training, and support, while coaching associates to operate safely and efficiently.

Responsibilities include reducing truck hours, coordinating with other departments, and enforcing safety and quality standards. Overtime and rotating shifts may be required due to production needs.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Must be available to work overtime, including Saturdays.
• Must have flexibility to work rotating shifts as necessary.
• Must be able to stand for 8-10 hours and lift up to 35 lbs.
• Supervisory experience preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Provide associates with objectives and standards specifying results to be achieved with tools, training and support.
• Lead productivity initiatives to reduce truck hours and optimize resources.
• Coordinate activities with other departments to meet delivery goals.
• Monitor safety, quality and housekeeping; enforce company policies.
• Participate in on-the-job training and coaching for new and existing team members.

Skills

Leadership

Self-motivation

Teamwork

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Location: Riverside, CA Shift : 1st Shift Make any day a pay day with on demand pay!

The Nuts and Bolts:

Provide associates with objectives and standards specifying results to be achieved. Provide tools, training, and support as needed. Provide a motivating climate supportive of each team member becoming fully competent.

• Must be able to “Demonstrate Leadership Capabilities”
• “Self-starter-self-motivated: Willingness to learn and a strong desire to progress within the Company”
• Work with little or no supervision.
• Display and promote teamwork and effective communication within Production and the company as a whole.
• Deal quickly and effectively with associate issues / concerns.
• Adhere to all legal and company policies and procedures.
• Take an active interest in the training of all new and existing associates assigned within your area of responsibility
• Maintain continual effective communication with associates assigned to area of responsibility.
• Perform performance coaching and counseling as required to ensure associates perform to desired expectations.
• Assist with on the job training of team members.
• Read and interpret written orders and specifications, blueprints, instructions and labels, which may contain hazardous warnings and cautions.
• Provide guidance and assist with on the job training of team members.
• Maintain a clean, orderly, and safe work environment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Specific Job Functions :

PRODUCTIVITY

Effective use and coordination of resources to accomplish specific goals and outputs while maintaining quality and customer satisfaction.

• Control and reduce truck hours.
• Effective and efficient utilization of people and other resources (overtime, equipment, material, etc.)
• Efficiently and effectively plan and execute daily work.
• Coordinate activities with other departments of the plant.
• Achieve truck delivery goals; daily delivery, monthly delivery, and on time delivery.
• Monitor and control inventory levels to ensure appropriate availability and work in process levels.

INNOVATION / INITIATIVE

Creativity in approaches to safety, personnel, productivity, and quality related problems.

• Seek and develop new or improved processes that result in improved productivity and customer satisfaction.
• Seek and develop solutions to problems as appropriate

QUALITY

Demonstrate a commitment to quality and the quality process. Completes assignments in an accurate and thorough manner. Produces work that meets or exceeds standard including satisfying the requirements of internal or external customers.

• Display personal quality attitude and quality leadership / sponsorship.
• Monitor established work procedures / practices; follow specs. Implement changes as required.
• Take an active role in the daily truck audits. Follow up on issues and corrective actions.
• Monitor quality of trucks in process and in rework and communicate actions required / taken.
• Actively pursue defect reductions and positively impact defect measurements.
• Implement and maintain quality improvement efforts. Maintain processes.

SAFETY

Lead by personal example to create and maintain a safe and orderly work environment. Enforces or follows safe work practices.

• Achieve zero lost time injuries and reduce OSHA recordable injuries.
• Assure compliance to safety policies and safe work practices.
• Maintain consistent daily housekeeping of all areas of responsibility.
• Utilize established programs and personal (safety meetings, etc.) to improve safety performance.
• Display personal safety attitude and safety leadership / sponsorship.

Preferred Credentials :

• Must be able to read and or interpret work orders.
• Must be able to read a tape measure.
• High School Diploma or equivalent GED preferred.
• Must be available to work overtime, including Saturdays, if needed.
• Must have the flexibility to work rotating shifts as necessary.
• Must be able to stand for 8 - 10 hours per day and lift up to 35 lbs.
• Must have understanding of quality policies and have minimum or zero defects per unit. Must adhere to the company safety regulations and assist in the training and awareness of safety guidelines to new team members in the department.
• Must actively participate and support Poindexter Production System (PPS); 5’s, Lean, TPM, and other Continuous Improvement Activities.
• Prior supervisory experience preferred but not required.

You Must Be Able to:

• This job operates in a manufacturing plant environment. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk or hear). The team member frequently is required to stand (sometimes for extended periods); walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms, and lift up to 35 pounds. The team member may, at times, sit, bend, stoop, squat, reach overhead, or crawl (may be in confined spaces). The team member is expected to perform repetitive tasks using their hands, and have the ability to climb ladders and/or work in high places.

How We Make an Impact:

Celebrating our 70th year as the largest truck body builder in North America, Morgan Truck Body LLC is proud to produce, deliver, and service quality products. With a foundation built on innovative design and quality construction, Morgan has experienced tremendous growth. In addition to dry freight truck bodies, Morgan specializes in satisfying unique and custom truck body needs, including electric vehicles, mobile service units, and refrigerated products, serving farmers, ranchers, contractors, landscapers, equipment and material haulers, and more!

Our shared values are the foundation upon which Morgan does business:

• Appreciating the people who make our success possible
• Acting with integrity in all we do
• Delivering results for our customers
• Bringing an unbridled passion for our products

Some of Our Total Rewards

We offer big company perks with small company culture:

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid holidays and increasing vacation time with years of service
• Generous Footwear and Eyewear Reimbursement Programs
• Paid Job and Leadership Development training

Morgan Truck Body LLC is a business unit of the J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. family and provides equal employment opportunities to all team members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.