Production Team Leader (2nd Shift)

About Aspen

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We love what we do! At Aspen Surgical we live our values of Customer Focus, Integrity, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovative Spirit every day. This caring dedication creates and builds exceptional products that drive the industry standard making a real and lasting impact on people’s lives around the world. We strive to be the best, while providing the tools, resources, and support needed to set our team members up for success.

Purpose of the Role:

The Purpose of the job is to help support the production floor and the operators to be successful at their job every day.  Remove roadblocks and obstacles that prevent Operators from meeting their daily production goals by standardizing work content and being available to support. 

In This Position, You Will Have the Opportunity to:

• Build cross functional relationships and assist with employee engagement activities
• Follow up with all team members in proper time frames
  • Ensures team production team has materials, tools, and resources to attain targets

• Solve conflicts when they occur and document them. Escalate to supervisor for support
• Inspect raw material, assembles, packages, and inspects products to ensure product meets quality criteria
• Working on production lines as required

• Help ensure Production Metrics are met daily and hold employees accountable for:

• • Scrap
  • Productivity
  • Quality
  • Safety

• Utilizes IFS and helps follow priorities in the dispatch list as daily and weekly scheduled
• Creates roster to staff lines and ensures employees are cross trained

• Assist in training new operators in production and that trainers are properly documenting training

• Work with planner when material shortage occurs to reschedule run when necessary

• Assist in managing hourly production labor
  • Assist with developing short term and long-term employee counts
  • Ensure employees and work environment are in a safe state at all times
  • Help manage machine downtime by allocation of labor to other areas
• Support Production Assistants in managing IFS transactions and data collecting such as quality checks and changeovers
• Verify final counts on paperwork are correct
• Verify line clearances are complete and correct
• Identify and communicate to QA nonconforming product
• Assist in closing shop orders to keep product releasing
• Help investigate safety incidents within 24 hours when required
• Participate in corrective action and complaint investigation meetings as needed.
• Participate in continuous improvement events as requested
• Gives feedback on performance reviews for production employees
• Assist with corrective action write ups as appropriate within a timely manner
• Assist with shift and area communication meetings as needed for:
  • Shift transition meetings daily priorities
  • Employee events
  • Continuous improvement events
  • Quality alerts
  • Safety alerts

What You Need to Succeed in This Position

• High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)
• One to three months related experience and/or training

• Strong leadership skills; able to motivate and create engaged teams
• Professional, respectful, fair, and consistent
• Display developed interpersonal skills: leadership, team orientation, ability to communicate at all levels
• Able to lead team in problem solving root cause analysis and implement effective corrective actions 
• Must be detail oriented and have strong drive and a sense of urgency to resolve issues
• Must be flexible and adaptable to make effective decisions and maintain effectiveness under changing circumstances and priorities
• Excellent computer skills including but not limited to Microsoft Office Suite and ERP systems
• Demonstrated mathematical skills to work with concepts such as probability, statistical inference, and geometry. Able to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations
• Strong planning and organizational skills  
• Maintain 5S standards on a daily basis
• Overtime and weekend work frequently required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

NOTE:  The inability to perform any of the following physical requirements does not preclude an applicant from consideration unless, following an individualized analysis, it is determined that the physical requirement is an essential job function and the applicant is unable to perform such function with or without reasonable accommodation

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms
• Frequently required to stand, sit, and talk or hear
• Must be able to frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 80 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer- and celebrate our employees' differences, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Diversity makes us better.