Production Team Lead-Evening Shift

This is a critical position associated with the successful operation of our operations/manufacturing department encompassing the cleanroom and warehouse areas. The Production Team Lead will report directly into the Production Supervisor. This person will be required to fill in for the Production Supervisor when needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Monitor ergonomic & safe work practices for all employees in the area in line with our EH&S Systems.
• Report any injury or near misses in the cleanroom to the supervisor/ health & safety officer immediately.
• Scheduling of production jobs being released from the MVP system - ensuring that there are components available before starting the work order.
• Ensure that any product schedule, shift efficiency and quality targets are met and provide the supervisor with timely feedback on discrepancies displaying urgency when required.
• Liaise with the supervisor on any discrepancies with BOMs, drawings and MVP errors in a timely fashion.
• Ensure chemical presses are maintained and actions from audits implemented.
• Monitor employee's progress during probation and provide feedback to the production supervisor.
• Must continuously monitor new and existing employees to ensure standard work techniques are being adhered to in order to complete the work safely.
• Ensure all cleaning logs and documents are completed daily and that all cleaning tasks are carried out by the team.
• Provide support to all employees to ensure compliance with work procedures.
• Motivate employees and maintain good morale in the department.
• Ensure MVP and inventory is kept up to date, investigating and highlighting any components that should be available to use but cannot be located. Feedback any findings or errors found with the team to avoid this issue happening again.
• Be observant and ensure defects are reported and highlighted to the team.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and report to the supervisor.
• Work on lean/ CI projects identified by the supervisor.
• Co-ordinate with all departments in an effective and professional manner.
• Maintain employee relations to the standards required by Meissner, including a variety of job-related tasks, which may not be specific to this positions profile.
• Facilitate shift change over activities.

Qualifications, Education and/or Experience

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.

• Coach & mentor new / less experienced employees
• Team player
• Dedicated worker
• Actively complies with all rules and regulations set down by Meissner
• Ability to organize and judge priorities and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Quality focused
• Works well off own initiative

Physical Demands

SUPS production is performed in an ISO Class 7 cleanroom environment. Powder free gloves, face masks, hairnets, cleanroom suits("bunny suits") and shoe covers must be worn. Shorts, loose or baggy clothing is not permitted. Makeup, hair styling products, soiled, fuzzy or frayed clothing must not be worn into the cleanroom. Because smokers continue to shed thousands of smoke particles even hours after smoking a cigarette and these particles will damage our products, only nonsmokers are permitted to enter or work in the cleanroom. As a result, the successful candidate must be a nonsmoker.

Meissner is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.