Plant Lead - PlayCore Southern Fulfillment Center

Summary

The 3rd Shift Lead plays a key role in supporting nightly operations by coordinating team activities by leading and directing shop floor activities, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards, and maintaining effective communication across departments. This position emphasizes leadership and guidance rather than direct supervision, fostering a collaborative environment to achieve production goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Promotes the Company's mission and values-based culture through providing an excellent product
• Safety: Assist in monitoring safety practices and ensure compliance with company policies.
• Support quality control efforts by identifying and reporting issues promptly.
• Productivity: Ensure all hot jobs are identified and work is complete.
• Conduct beginning of shift meeting and communication information to employees.
• Identify inventory discrepancies and report any shortages.
• Help maintain accurate documentation of shift activities and production metrics.
• Coordinate workflow and provide guidance to team members to maintain efficiency.
• Promote teamwork and a positive work environment throughout the shift.
• Communicate effectively with supervisors and other leads to relay updates and resolve issues.
• Must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Software
• Frequently walk, stand, climb up and climb down stairs, and use hands and fingers
• Other duties may be assigned by Manager or Supervisor.

Competencies

• Analytical Decision-Making
• Communication
• Learning & Development
• Planning & Organizing
• Professionalism & Integrity
• Risk-Taking/Creative Thinking
• Teamwork & Relationship-Building
• Results Orientation
• Managing Others

Education and/or Experience

• Ability to assist in training operators and fill in where needed.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Must have the ability to write routine reports and correspondence as well as be able to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Reasoning Ability

• Must have the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Computer Skills

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should be to have basic computer skills.

Other Skills

• Must be able to read and interrupt blueprints
• Must have ability to pass and operate forklift

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will frequently walk and sit; ascending or descending stairs using feet and legs with hands and arms may be used for balance, use hands and fingers, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or listen.
• The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually manufacturing environment where PPE is required that includes steel toed shoes, safety glasses and maybe ear plugs.