Team Leader Jobs

Overview

Who We Are:

Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle and building products industries. We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation, and premium products to all of our customers.

Why We are Different:

At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are. We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members’ unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

What You will Get:

• Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
• Fair and competitive compensation.
• Career development and mentoring and opportunities to grow.
• A unique, inclusive and supportive company culture.
• Holiday, personal and vacation days.

Summary/Objective

Responsible for operations at the plant to ensure production lines produce a product that meets customer quality and delivery requirements. Directly oversees all personnel in assigned area. Observes, promotes and ensures compliance of all rules and policies maintained by the company (safety, continuous improvement, leadership, core values). This position is primarily responsible for fabricating, repairing and troubleshooting tooling or fixturing to support manufacturing operations.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Performs welding and heat treating as needed.
• Ensure product is produced and delivered on time. Ensure assigned lines receive materials on time.
• Ensures that parts and tooling are in accordance with instructions, prints, and work orders.
• Troubleshoot and minimize downtime issues on line as they arise.
• Set up and operates machine tools, lathes, and grinders.
• Assembly, maintenance, and troubleshooting, new and repair tooling.
• Work from blueprints and sketches to create or modify tools, dies, and jigs.
• Fabricates and repairs machine tools using machining operations and measuring instruments.
• Complete and submit organizational paperwork to include days off requests, employee evaluations, corrective actions, and various reports and checklists.
• Participates in any disciplinary actions.
• Ensure compliance of all divisional and plant safety policies and procedures.
• Responsible for ensuring LCI quality standards are followed for assigned production lines.
• Participates in Bi-Annual team member reviews and evaluations.

Competencies

• Must comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.
• Must be able to focus on retention of employees.
• Must demonstrate clear verbal and written communication skills (English).
• Must be able to work with minimum supervision.
• Must understand appropriate equipment including repair tooling and devices, arc and MIG welders, band saws, acetylene torches, tape measures, etc.
• Must be able to work as a part of a team to achieve the company’s overall goals.
• Ability to define problems and draw valid conclusions
• Must be able to prioritize and easily adapt to changes through the day.
• Must have trouble shooting skills
• Must be able to ensure that good housekeeping habits are maintained throughout the shop.
• Must possess successful problem solving skills.
• Must demonstrate understanding and execution of machine operation and repair techniques.
• Must be able to read blueprints
• Must be able to meet production goals and time deadlines for company projects.
• Must be able to exhibit tact and diplomacy and maintain professional relationships with supervisors, fellow employees, customers, etc.
• Must be able to read and process written communication including, but not limited to, work orders, frame prints, measurements, and schedules.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Must be able to work under physically and mentally stressful situations.
• Must be able to operate various Lift Trucks in all elements as necessary.

Supervisory Responsibility

Supervision of 1-6 employees

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires 98% standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing ladders. The employee may have to lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time salary position, and hours/days of work are decided by production schedules and your reporting manager.

Travel

Travel to local plants.

Required Education And Experience

• Critical thinking skills.
• Must have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and convert in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Basic knowledge of inventory and manufacturing software; AX, and understand the Mobile Device and scanner.
• Problem solving skills.
• Proven leadership experience in a similar industry.
• Basic computer knowledge.
• High school diploma or equivalent

Preferred Education And Experience

• Quality Assurance experience.
• 1+ years of manufacturing experience.
• 1-3 Months related experience as a team lead preferred
• Strong organization and time management skills preferred.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications preferred.
• Lean 5S certification preferred.
• Welding Operations experience.
• Public speaking ability preferred.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Flexible to schedule changes.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

Must be able to pass EVerify.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Pay Group : AAP/EEO Statement

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law. This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters. All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert’s strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member. Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members. Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership. Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.