Group Leader
Talascend is currently seeking a Group Leader with a leading automotive manufacturer located in in Tonawanda, New York.
Overview
The role involves the effective use of personnel, material, and equipment, as well as training, developing, and evaluating hourly team members. The leader is responsible for meeting production cost schedules while maintaining quality requirements and promoting safe work practices.
Responsibilities
- Participates in the training, developing and evaluating of hourly team members.
- Participates in the development of highly effective teams.
- Leads Global Manufacturing Systems processes and serves as resource supporting launch and pilot activities in assigned areas.
- Meets or exceeds production cost schedule and maintains quality requirements.
- Maintains awareness of quality standards, and communicates department quality goals, and leverages resources to solve quality issues.
- Builds and maintains good working relationships with employees, union and management.
- Understands and consistently administers the National and Local Agreements between General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union.
- Implements and follows systems that prevent reoccurrence of known issues.
- Promotes safe work practices and achieves objectives for ergonomics, health and safety and housekeeping.
- Motivates, trains and develops employees to effectively perform their jobs utilizing standardized methods.
- Ensures team members receive adequate JIT (job instruction training).
- Achieves production schedules and product requirements by applying lean manufacturing/synchronous principles with emphasis on variation reduction, control costs, and achieve productivity improvements.
- Coaches, teaches, counsels and mentors Group Leaders in these responsibilities.
- Candidate needs to be available to work all three shifts and work weekends! Plant is a 24 hour, 7 days a week site. Candidates have the opportunity to work every weekend, be prepared to work a lot of weekends!!!
- 1st 6:30am-3:30pm, 2nd 2:30pm-11:30pm, 3rd 10:30am-7:30am
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Drug Screen may be required.
Pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Talascend also offers a variety of benefits including: health and disability insurance, 401(k), EAP, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, plan requirements, schedule type, and client work site mandates.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.