Team Lead

Summary
The SMW team leader role is vital for the continued success of SMW. Each team leader is expected to be a working lead who also serves as the primary resource and contact for his/her area of expertise. The roles and responsibilites in this job description are intended to be guidelines and list essential skills required for team leader success .

Essential Skills & Responsibilities

• Serve as the first point of problem solving with the confidence to know the appropriate level of involvement from others to reach successful resolution—"Solve at the appropriate
• Be a champion of creative solutions from all persons utilizing formal and informal problem solving strategies
• Avoid the "I can't" attitude and trap—be a champion and example for turning "can't" into "this is how we can overcome and succeed"
• Have the ability to "look ahead" and assess upcoming risks and gaps to safe and effective production
• Understand, monitor, and participate in maintaining, gathering, and presenting productivity and utilization metrics
• Understand, monitor, and maintain daily production schedules (DPS)
• Be able to communicate clear and consistent information to all levels of the organization— small group to large audience; shop floor to senior management including: o Work assignments
• Productivity presentations o Tier l, Il, Ill meetings o Kaizen/lmprovement reports o Formal problem solving meetings.
• Possess skill and knowlege to provide meaningful technical guidance to operators.
• Perform/Lead risk assessments before a team performs any non-standard work or tasks using SMW's "First Things First" process
• Actively promote and identify opportunities that improve departmental efficiency and cost

Be a champion, participant, and dailiy observer in Behavior Based Safety and Behavior Based Quality programs

*KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EDUCATION
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. *

• Minimum one year of permanent employment with MPSA-SMW
• Proven record of stable and sustainable performance
• Familiar with product flow and able to review & interpret component and assembly blueprints/drawings as well as bill of material
• Employees with open disciplinary actions are considered ineligible
• Basic computer skills o SAP
• Work orders
• Router management
• BOM/Inventory information
• MS Office
• Outlook
• Power Point
• Word
• Excel
• Area Specific Software
• FANUC Controls
• PLC Controls/Robot Successful candidates will be required to participate in advanced training such as
• 8 Step Problem Solving
• BBS/BBQ

c. OSHA 10 hour

• Conflict Resolution
• Lean/6S
• Leadership
• Human Performance
• Other courses as necessary