Job/Position Summary
The Manufacturing Technical Leader directs the activities of their department personnel. Primary objectives are to improve our processes and eliminate waste so that production schedules are met with yields and efficiencies at or above the targeted levels.
Major Areas of Responsibility
- Direct and maintain the department, to achieve cost, quality, and efficiency targets.
- Ensure equipment and tools are available to execute the production schedule.
- Have a working knowledge of the equipment and process and work closely with support personnel to identify and correct problems.
- Suggest, support, and implement cost and continuous improvement items.
- Daily communications with Planners, Managers and other MTL’s to schedule production to support customer demands.
- Develop improvement plans regarding labor efficiencies. Determine most efficient staffing levels for area of responsibility.
- Have a working knowledge of the union contracts. Assign and monitor work accordingly.
- Assure employees are properly trained and understand job expectations.
- Certify operators to the current revision of the instructional documents and document accordingly. Cross train a sufficient quantity of back-ups for key positions.
- Maintain and comply with all TS and department procedures.
- Assure productivity and cost objectives are met. Maintain employee records as necessary.
- Maintain a safe and clean working environment. Communicate issues to appropriate personnel.
- Issue and update, daily, schedules of productions.
- Discipline, coach, and counsel employees as necessary. Direct contact with UAW &/or IAM.
- Interpret contract and labor relations contract within area of responsibility. Ensure information is disseminated to all employees assigned.
- Work with the Planners to maintain the P&IC/Manufacturing portion of the Sales & Operations Planning database. Establish target levels of finished goods inventory based on customer demand, manufacturing capabilities and inventory turns objectives.
- Implement actions to reduce inventory through kanban quantity reductions, consignment implementations and write off of excess and obsolete inventory to meet planned inventory turns goals.
- Encourage and support improvements in processes or methods of manufacturing. Recommend new methods and processes and stay up to date on latest methods and technologies.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Must have knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, TS16949, labor contracts, and Basic manufacturing techniques & equipment.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor of Science degree in a related technical field or post secondary education
- 3-5 years of related automotive manufacturing experience
- Supervisory experience in an union environment.
Physical Demands
- Ability to work several hours in a production environment
Working Environment
- Standard production environment