Job Description
Job Description
The Team Leader is responsible for demonstrating leadership skills within their assigned area. This person also works to ensure all daily production goals are accomplished.
Schedule is Sunday through Wednesday (1st Shift)
Essential Duties and Accountabilities
- Responsible for assisting with daily production goals and ensuring department production is complete timely and effectively.
- Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
- Sets up production and any equipment necessary on a daily basis.
- Works closely with Mini-Company President/Production Supervisor to assist and ensure employees follow company policies and health and safety guidelines.
- Interprets specifications and job orders to workers and assigns duties.
- Diligently attends to details and pursues quality in accomplishing tasks.
- Responsible for working according to the company’s safety and quality standards.
- Maintains a safe and clean work area.
- Performs other related duties as required and or as assigned.
Competencies
Cognition: Processes thoughts and experiences effectively from decision making to innovative thinking, analysis, judgments and problem solving. This includes examining information to draw conclusions, developing creative ideas and perspectives, making informed decisions considering all of the facts, goals, constraints and risks associated and resolving difficult challenges.
Communication: Communicates clearly with others avoiding ambiguity in all aspects of communication from speaking to writing, listening, and reading. This includes expressing ideas and facts orally and in writing, understanding and learning from what others say and grasping the meaning of written information.
Interaction with Others: Communicating and reacting with co-workers appropriately to maintain a professional environment. This includes encouraging others and furthering Company objectives, building constructive working relationships consisting of acceptance and respect, promoting cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and embracing a work environment that appreciates diversity.
Personal Effectiveness: Incorporating all personal resources to achieve work objectives the most efficiently from accountability to adaptability, customer and safety focus and continual learning. This includes taking responsibility for actions, quality and timeliness of work, adjusting to changing business needs, conditions and work responsibilities, maintaining customer satisfaction with the products offered by the company, adhering to all workplace standards, regulations and practices and showing an ongoing commitment to self-improve.
Management: Structures and directs others to ensure Company goals are met from coaching, leading, organizing and self-managing. This includes supporting all co-workers growth by giving feedback, instruction and encouragement in order for them to better succeed. This also includes promoting Company objectives and demonstrating the way to achieve them, coordinating ideas, prioritizing tasks by importance and deadline, keeping a quick pace without sacrificing quality, maintaining composure in stressful situations and tactfully handling challenges or tense interpersonal situations.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or its equivalent.
- Experience in sewing and knowledge on operating on industrial sewing machines.
- Able to understand basic work and safety instructions in English.
- Ability to use metric tape; read and understand metric system.
- Must be authorized to work in the USA.
- Basic computer knowledge in Word and Excel.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
- Requires sitting or standing for a prolonged period of time.
- Requires bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 50 lbs. unassisted.