Lead at Flextronics International USA, Inc in West Columbia, South Carolina

Job Description:

Job Posting Start Date 10-04-2024 Job Posting End Date 01-01-2025

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Lead  located in USA, SC, Columbia

Reporting to the Production Supervisor the Lead role involves performing inspection and quality check reports.

What a typical day looks like:

• Provide ongoing feedback on performance of individuals through both formal and informal evaluations


• Initiate and participate in process development and cost improvement projects.


• Coordinate people resource requirements for the department.


• Communicate daily plan and any production or customer service issues


• Highlight material shortages, interface with Expediter/Purchasing on any part shortages


• Recognize and monitor bottlenecks.


• Report and alert resources concerning downtime.


• Interface with Test Support/Maintenance on equipment problems.


• Track time for NPI/Pre-production/re-work.


• Communicate with opposite shift to ensure communication flow.


• Update department communication boards.


• Follow quality indicators.  Stop and alert if predefined indicators are below target.


• Primary contact for response to situations where scrap is occurring in any process step.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Demonstrates advanced skills which may be used to conduct on-the-job training and/or lead/guide other employees. Serves as an expert/consultant in manufacturing line skills with other employees.


• Demonstrates broad knowledge of manufacturing line techniques and may improve processes. Applies new technologies/ techniques.


• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees, and supervisors of the organization.


• Demonstrates broad knowledge of manufacturing line techniques and may improve processes. Applies new technologies/ techniques.


• Ability to read, comprehend and interpret complex instructions.


• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.


•  Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.


• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.


• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in various forms.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision


• Life Insurance


• Matching 401K


• PTO


• Tuition Reimbursement


• Employee discounts at local retailers

Job Category

Operations

Relocation: Not eligible

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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