The Team Leader uses leadership, planning, and organizational skills to efficiently allocate people and resources to accomplish daily, weekly, and monthly operational goals established by plant management.  The Team Leader has a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo and actively engages their team in continuous improvement efforts.  Key to the role is demonstrating the commitment to safety, quality, and people development within their department.  The Team Leader is accountable for the operational results of their teams by focusing on shop floor execution to exceed the department’s performance metrics and objectives.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Understand, comply with, and support all agency regulatory standards as well as BAC specific policies that govern environmental, health, safety, quality, financial, and people practices


• Eliminate hazards and proactively act upon recommendations identified through behavior-based safety observations to maintain a safe working environment


• Act as Emergency Coordinator for Emergency Response such as in the event of a hazardous spill, fire, explosion, or natural disaster


• Demonstrate effective daily communication with the team to ensure all employees are informed and committed to the department’s immediate goals and vision using meetings, one on ones, and positive coaching sessions


• Lead and/or support projects as assigned related to new products, continuous improvement, quality, safety, or cost reduction


• Collaborate with peers and internal customers locally and globally to foster sharing of best practices and continuous improvement


• Ensure that team members understand how their work relates to the plant’s strategic goals and BAC’s mission


• Develop all team members with particular emphasis placed on Station Leaders and high performers


• Execute daily and weekly departmental productivity goals to meet monthly sales targets and on-time customer delivery


• Establish objectives for the team that are aligned with BAC’s execution strategy and evaluate team members on performance


• Initiate the efficient allocation and management of labor to ensure high quality and productivity through effectively using the collective skills of the team


• Drive awareness and enforcement of policies and procedures indicative of an equitable and well-run professional organization

The Team Leader reports to the Plant Manager or Operations Manager.  Additionally, they provide support for functional processes, projects and initiatives sponsored by EHS, Quality, Human Resources, Engineering, Maintenance and Supply Chain.  May participate in or lead cross functional teams representing multiple BAC business locations.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Three to five years of experience leading effective teams in a fast paced, and preferably a manufacturing environment


• Analytical thinking demonstrated by the ability to solve problems using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach.


• Demonstrated ability to delegate tasks and motivate teams to achieve shared goals


• Project management skills including, setting a vision, establishing and driving timelines, and division of responsibility to balance skills and workload


• Keen evaluator of talent and effective developer of high performing team members


• Effective oral communication skills including giving presentations that provide clear direction along with one-on-one interactions with team members that are tailored to the individual.


• Effective written communication skills including the ability to produce professional documents, emails, and presentations that are concise, persuasive, and informative


• Strong Microsoft Office skills including charting, graphing, and analysis functions in Excel, effective use of Word to create documentation and shared resources, and the generation of compelling communications in PowerPoint


• Demonstrated knowledge and use of continuous improvement tools and processes


• Possess the business acumen to run a department as a cost and profit center continually seeking opportunities to improve output and reduce expenses


• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Administration, or equivalent level of experience

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.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.  While performing this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk up to 80% of the time.   This position requires occasional lifting to 50 pounds and travel up to 10% of the time.  Exposures include elevated noise levels associated with a manufacturing environment, fluctuations in temperature ambient conditions as well as intermittent exposure to the weather in and about the yard and dock areas.  Occasional weekend work is typical, and availability is expected for any of the three operating shifts.