Assembly Team Leader - 1st Shift

Join AriensCo as an Assembly Team Leader, leading and inspiring a team in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role focuses on continuous improvement, ensuring adherence to standard work, and meeting daily production goals. Responsibilities include training new employees, problem-solving, and effective communication. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of lean principles, 6S, and waste elimination, contributing to safety, quality, productivity, and delivery.

Must Have

• Lead area team members and ensure adherence to standard work.
• Create, maintain, audit, and improve standard work processes.
• Ensure team members' cycle time is at or below takt time, assisting on the line if needed.
• Train new employees, transfers, and facilitate cross-training.
• Fill in for absent team members to maintain production.
• Perform root cause problem solving for production issues.
• Demonstrate good understanding of waste elimination, continuous improvement, safety, quality, productivity, and delivery.
• Properly fill out production control charts and understand the production control board.
• Effectively communicate with team members, supervisors, and other personnel.
• Possess a High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Clear understanding of Standard work, time observations, takt time, bar charts, and spaghetti diagrams.
• Proven understanding of 5 Key measures (policy deployment measures).
• Possess training and communication skills.
• Understanding of Lean and 6S principles.
• Basic computer skills.
• Trained in TWI.
• Ability to become torque certified.
• Ability to utilize the Ariens Company Standardized Problem Solving Process.

Good to Have

• Past leadership experience preferred
• Additional education in lean, leadership, or manufacturing preferred

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance effective first day of employment
• Onsite health clinic with Bellin Health
• Life Insurance
• 401(k) and profit-sharing plans
• Bonus Programs
• Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
• Paid vacation, holidays and leave programs
• Flexible spending account (FSA) plan
• Voluntary wellness program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Gym discount membership program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Safety shoes and safety prescription glasses reimbursement
• Apprenticeship opportunities
• Cross-training and job rotation opportunities
• Career paths
• Ongoing development through the Ariens Academy
• Kaizen Events - continuous improvement
• Ability to win products
• Daycare facility in Brillion, WI

Job Description:

Join Our Team as an Assembly Team Leader!

Are you ready to lead, inspire, and drive results? We're looking for a motivated Assembly Team Leader who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and is passionate about continuous improvement.

Pay: Starts at $26/hour

Schedule & Shift: Monday - Thursday (4 days x 10 hours), 4:30AM – 2:30PM

THE DAY TO DAY...

• Lead area team members
• Adherence to to standard work
• Create, maintain, audit, and improve standard work
• Ensuring team members cycle time is at or below takt time, includes helping on the line if needed to meet daily production goals
• Training new employees, transfers, and cross training
• Filling in for team members on vacation or absent
• Root cause problem solving issues that prevent the cell from meeting daily production goals
• Good understanding of waste elimination, continuous improvement, safety, quality, productivity, and delivery. Ability to identify waste and eliminate it
• Properly filling out production control charts and good understanding of the production control board and its function
• Ability to effectively communicate to team members, supervisors and other Ariens Company personnel

THE QUALIFICATIONS...

• Minimum High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required
• Clear understanding of Standard work, time observations, takt time, takt vs. actual, bar charts, standard work combination sheets, spaghetti diagrams
• Proven understanding of 5 Key measures (policy deployment measures)
• Training and communication skills
• Understanding of Lean and 6S
• Basic computer skills
• Trained in TWI
• Become torque certified (training will be provided)
• Understands and has the ability to utilize the Ariens Company Standardized Problem Solving Process
• Past leadership experience preferred
• Additional education in lean, leadership, or manufacturing preferred