Team Lead- Production

Company / Location Information

A.O. Smith is a global leader applying innovative technologies and energy-efficient solutions to products manufactured and marketed worldwide. The company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of residential and commercial water heating equipment and boilers, as well as a manufacturer of water treatment products for residential and light commercial applications. A. O. Smith is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with approximately 12,000 employees at operations in the United States, Canada, China, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Primary Function

Directs and coordinates shipping, inventory control, quality control and other warehouse processes according to established operating procedures by performing the following duties personally or through subordinates.

Responsibilities

• Support our company values & principles and promote them in everyday work activities.
• Instruct assigned teams on safety and emergency procedures and ensure daily accountability of those procedures.
• Supports team supervisor and performs duties when absent.
• Provides encouragement to team members, including communication of team goals and identifying areas of needed training and skills checks.
• Provide daily work assignments to staff and work with managers and other supervisors to coordinate personnel and resources as necessary to complete all work scheduled for department.
• Understand quality procedures and requirements and ensuring daily accountability by the operators, within the manufacturing areas of responsibility.
• Coordinate, provide, document, and execute employee training and cross-training to ensure safety and work procedures are followed and meet quality requirements.
• Update and communicate plant functional manufacturing metrics using assigned Gemba board and facilitate daily team meeting.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you work closely with cross functional areas. 
• Continue to grow lean knowledge and use the tools to identify and assist with continuous improvement, including 5S and 8-Step Problem Solving methods to determine root cause of problems and implement corrective actions to proactively avoid repeat issues.

• Assist with the development, revision and enforcement of inventory management procedures and metrics including record keeping and SAP transactions, work instructions, ISO/quality procedures, CTPAT, and inventory warehouse and storage location accuracies.
• Assign available manpower to workstations based on cross training matrix.
• Monitor material movements in the inventory control system (SAP) and perform investigation and root cause analysis for inventory discrepancies.
• Oversee the receipt of purchased goods, verifying counts and quality, and coordination of material movements as it relates to put away, scrap removal and receiving.
• Inspect outbound freight for damages and to prevent damage from arriving to customer.
• Visually monitor inventory levels and communicate low levels to TM Planners, Load Planners, on site leadership, and make inventory adjustments when needed.
• Maintain a “tour ready” clean and safe work area.
• Help to attract and retain qualified and motivated workforce while fostering new ideas for improvements from other members of the team.

• Other responsibilities may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications

• • Minimum of three years of professionally related experience.
  • In-depth understanding of AOS values and metrics.
  • Ability to multi-task and strong time management skills.
  • Demonstrate strong safety, productivity, performance, attendance, and adherence to company policies, procedures, and leadership standard work.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to ensure stable operations of the assigned functional areas.
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
  • Ability to work with others collaboratively to include cross functional teams and internal teams.
  • Ability to motivate others to meet production demands/schedule.
  • Ability to communicate effectively through oral and written communication to include writing routine reports and updating metrics.
  • Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages and conversions and apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, bills of materials, drawings, and procedure manuals.
  • Must be proficient with MS Office (i.e., Word, Excel) and operational systems/software (i.e., SAP, drawing portal)
  • Demonstrated working knowledge of SAP.
  • Lean manufacturing and/or continuous improvement experience.
  • Experience with operating fork trucks
  • Ability to manage operators to maximize safety, quality, efficiency, and output.
  • Willingness to report disciplinary issues to Supervisor as required.
  • Willingness to learn new tasks, cross-train, rotate and work as a part of a team.
  • Ability to serve as a back-up for other team members to cover absenteeism, vacations, and mandatory rotations of responsibility.
  • Ability to demonstrate strong investigative skills in SAP and inventory locations within the plant.
  • Willingness to work overtime as required depending on business need.
  
   

Education

Physical Requirements

We Offer

Competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits plans which include medical and dental insurance, company-sponsored life insurance, retirement security savings plan, short- and long-term disability programs and tuition assistance.

ADA Statement & EEO Statement

In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.