Job Purpose:
As a lead team member, you will be responsible for leading and managing a group of team members, ensuring that they are productive and efficient, and helping them to achieve their full potential. Overall, being a lead team member requires a strong mix of leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. Some of the key responsibilities you have to your team are to set clear goals and expectations, provide feedback and support, be a good communicator, handle difficult situations, and lead by example.
Required Soft Skills:
- Practices and demonstrates Anchor’s Foundational Values
- Understands and is growing in knowledge of the Anchor Leader Mindset
- Set the standard for reliability and attendance.
- Positive/professional communication, both verbal and with appropriate body language.
- Exercises effective listening skills.
- Demonstrates good emotional control.
- Gives and receives criticism appropriately.
- Supports and shares Anchor’s purpose statement with each team member.
- Must understand and strive to meet their responsibility to achieve Anchor’s True North Goals.
Required Hard Skills:
- Create a safety culture and respond to any team member’s concerns. (Safety)
- Engage team members to achieve daily quality targets (Quality)
- Engage team members to achieve daily schedule attainment (Delivery)
- Engage team members to achieve weekly/monthly productivity goal. (Productivity)
- Must have a strong ability to read and interpret engineering specifications (specs).
- Ability to multitask in a complex work environment.
- Ability to handle a complex workflow, identify and resolve production issues, while maneuvering through custom specs.
- Ability to evaluate operations and make suggestions for improvements.
- Perform in-line repairs promptly.
- Immediately report any unplanned PTO including “late in” and “leave early” to VSL.
- Responds and coaches team members on reported in-line quality issues or policy infractions and reports issue to VSL if written warnings are required.
- Populate the Tier 1 board daily, (all metrics).
- Conduct Tier 1 board meeting every morning at shift start up.
- Announce all company communication to all team members in Tier 1 board meeting.
- Report Tier 1 metrics to VSL during Tier 2 meeting.
- After coaching team members on breaches of standard process with no correction achieved, inform VSL of any ongoing issues not followed; (red card, std. work, welder hit tracking, 5S, TPM documents, etc.)
- Report all machine down time on the Anchor Main Gateway & add to Tier 1 Board.
- Works with planning to evaluate and make decisions related to customer delivery promises. Escalate to VSL if needed.
- Must have good time management skills to be able to schedule work properly to ensure on time delivery.
Education/Experience:
High School Graduate or GED required. Must have at least 1 year of production experience with Anchor products.
Travel Requirements: None.