Team Lead (Ti Welder) - Day Shift - Ogden, UT

Primary Function:  A Team Lead, in addition to performing normal duties in respective job classification, participates in directing and supervising department operations while ensuring throughput, productivity, cycle time and quality goals are met.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:            

• Employee Relations
  • Employee Reviews:
    • Assist in employee development and advancement through the grade system
• Employee Accountability
  • Ensure hard starts / hard stops at break time, lunch time, and shift change.
  • Ensure personnel adhere and work to procedures as required.
  • Ensure employees are in compliance with company policy.
  • Participate in hiring, scheduling, directing and developing employees.
  • Participate in disciplinary action up to and including termination when necessary.
• Employee Training
  • Responsible for providing on the job training for employees.
  • Instill safe work behaviors in employees in team. Train in use of PPE and safe work practices.  Identify and report on unsafe conditions in a timely manner.
  • Participate in safety meetings.
• Planning
  • Prioritize and assign work to meet daily goals:
    • Throughput
    • ESH Productivity
    • VC/ESH
  • Plans efficiently around key activities in assigned work department.
  • Effectively utilizes employee skill sets to complete work tasks efficiently.
  • Meet internal/external customer requirements to deliver product on time and within specification.
  • Proactively cooperate between departments and share resources when needed to meet plant goals and objectives.
•  Process Control
  • Ensure employees are updating process control (SPC) charts.
  • Responsible for the preventative maintenance of machines within department.
• Process Improvement
  • Supports initiatives to reduce scrap and rework and actively supports continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Maintain lean practices within department.
•  Other Duties:
  • Reports in a timely manner all issues having a negative impact on productivity such as absenteeism, unacceptable work behaviors and performance.
  • Reports in a timely manner any issue that has an adverse impact on meeting production, quality, or safety requirements.
  • Responsible for calibration of instruments within department.
  • Actively supports all management policies, programs, and procedures.
  • Performs other duties of greater or lesser complexity as required by the position or assigned by supervision.
  • Job duties may include limited management of employees managing hazardous waste. Comprehensive hazardous waste training will be required annually for those Team Leaders engaged in hazardous waste management activities.

Minimum Job Requirements:         

• Ability to work in a production environment.
• Understand and adopt lean manufacturing principles.
• Ability to motivate co-workers.
• Previous manufacturing experience.
• Able to read and comprehend English.
• High School Diploma or GED.
• Able to multi-task under pressure.
• Good organizational skills.
• Detail oriented.
• Ability to prioritize.
• Team player.
• Willing to continuously learn.
• Able to trust his/her own judgment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Positive attitude.
• Safety conscious.
• Computer skills. (Microsoft Word, Excel, Internet, etc.)

 Desired Competencies:     

• 2-year degree in business or related technical field highly preferred.
• 2-4 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Basic understanding of Six Sigma principles

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills.

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.