Role summary
The Manufacturing Team Leader works within production operators and the BIW team to achieve aligned results. Responsible for leading and coordinating a team of operators within BIW automated cells, ensuring safe operations, strict quality compliance, and stable production flow. The role drives throughput performance by eliminating losses, enforcing standard work, and enabling rapid response to abnormalities while fostering a zero-defect and zero-incident culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead and enforce all EHS regulations, robotic cell safety standards, and safe work practices
- Ensure no bypass of safety systems including light curtains, scanners, interlocks, and guarding
- Conduct pre-shift safety audits and verify workstation readiness
- Lead safety talks and reinforce safety behaviors
- Ensure proper use of PPE and ergonomic practices
- Investigate and report incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions, applying corrective actions
- Empower team members to follow stop-call-wait principle for unsafe conditions
- Manage team performance to achieve production targets aligned with takt time
- Monitor and improve OEE drivers: Availability, Performance, and Quality
- Balance workloads across stations to avoid bottlenecks, starvation, or blocking
- Ensure proper execution of standard work at each station
- Monitor real-time production flow using Andon systems and dashboards
- Lead recovery plans during downtime and coordinate with Maintenance and Engineering
- Support and oversee changeovers ensuring minimal impact on production
- Ensure adherence to control plans, work instructions, and quality alerts
- Verify operators are performing in-process inspections correctly
- Lead containment actions for defects through segregation, traceability, and escalation
- Drive first-time quality and reduce rework and scrap
- Participate in QRQC and root cause analysis
- Ensure compliance with traceability standards including part labels, lot control, and sequencing
- Lead, coach, and develop production team members
- Conduct daily briefings on Safety, People, Environment, Quality, Delivery, and Cost
- Assign tasks and ensure proper station coverage
- Monitor attendance, performance, and discipline within the team
- Identify training needs and ensure skill certification using matrix-based training
- Foster a team-oriented, accountable, and quality-focused culture
- Support new team members onboarding and qualifications
- Lead first-level troubleshooting of production issues
- Apply structured problem-solving methods including 5 Why and Fishbone analysis
- Identify and eliminate chronic losses and inefficiencies
- Drive Kaizen activities and continuous improvement actions
- Collaborate with Maintenance, Quality, and Engineering for sustainable solutions
- Ensure implementation and follow-up of corrective actions
- Act as the first point of escalation for Andon calls and line abnormalities
- Ensure clear communication between shifts
- Communicate production status, issues, and action plans to management
- Coordinate with support functions including Maintenance, Quality, and Logistics
- Maintain proper reporting of downtime, defects, and performance
- Ensure implementation and sustainment of 5S standards
- Maintain cleanliness and organization of the work environment
Education · Experience · Type
Full-timeOn-site · KAECSalary not stated