Team Lead - Grinding (Manufacturing)
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Location: Timken, American Roller Bearing, Morganton, NC.
Job Type: Full-Time.
Shift: DayShift
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
What We Offer:
- Competitive pay.
- Comprehensive benefits packages, including medical, dental and vision coverage.
- Benefits start on first day of employment.
- 401 (k) retirement savings plan.
- 9 paid holidays per year plus vacation.
- Paid parental leave at one year of service.
- Employee discounts on products and services.
- Education expense reimbursement at one year of service.
- Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
Position Summary:
The Team Leader will oversee and coordinate daily operations within the Grind Department, ensuring efficiency, quality, and safety standards are met. This role requires strong leadership abilities, technical, expertise in manufacturing processes, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
Job Responsibilities:
- Receives instructions and directions from the Supervisor and/or Manager.
- Lead a team of production employees, providing guidance, coaching, and training to ensure employees perform at their best.
- Plan and organize roller production schedule and resources to meet customer demand and production targets.
- Ensures daily production standards are met by interaction with operators and review performance every hour. Maintaining whiteboard.
- To effectively perform the 5C process. Escalates help chain to next level management for production, quality, and safety triggers through means of radio communication.
- Promotes a culture of teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement (learning).
- To effectively work with manufacturing vendors for grinding supplies, including obtaining quotes.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, safety guidelines, quality assurance standards and other regulatory requirements.
- In the absence of the department manager, team leader plays a crucial role in ensuring continuity, efficiency, and effective management within the department.
- To effectively use SYSPRO for creating routes, making shop travelers, and assembling grinding job packets involves understanding the software's functionalities and applying them effectively.
- Monitor waste tank levels and maintaining hydraulic fluids are critical tasks in a manufacturing environment, especially in operations involving grinding.
- Operating equipment when time permits is a proactive approach to enhance production flow.
- Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned.
All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
The Timken Company, a global technology leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion, designs a growing portfolio of next-generation products for diverse industries. For more than 125 years, Timken has used its specialized expertise to innovate and create customer-centric solutions that increase reliability and efficiency. The company posted $4.6 billion in sales in 2024 and employs more than 19,000 people globally, operating from 45 countries. Timken has been recognized among America's Most Responsible Companies and America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity by Newsweek, the World's Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere and America's Most Innovative Companies by Fortune.
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