Lead at Flextronics International USA, Inc in Salt Lake City, Utah

Job Description:

Job Posting Start Date 10-10-2024 Job Posting End Date 12-09-2024

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 Salt Lake City, UT.

Reporting to the Production Supervisor, the Lead role involves being responsible for providing leadership and direction to groups of non-exempt employees.

What a typical day looks like:

• Provide feedback to supervisors about employees’ performance through formal and informal meetings.


• Coordinate people resource requirements for the department.


• Communicate priority tasks to team daily and lead efforts towards production goals.


• Highlight and investigate material shortages or discrepancies.


• Help alert other departments about planned and unplanned downtime.


• Avoid downtime due to material shortages by ensuring that lines are supplied with sufficient materials.


• Update “pass down” and “down time” communication reports to ensure communication flow with opposite shift.


• Follow quality indicators and help alert others if predefined indicators fall below the target.


• Organize employees’ at assigned workstations and rearrange assignments when necessary.


• Identify cause of mass failures and make the necessary adjustments to overcome errors.


• Recognize, monitor, and overcome bottlenecks.


• Motivate and mentor individual employees and small groups of employees.


• Monitor employees’ performance and communicate to trainers what additional training is needed.


• Have the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform all job requirements in area of responsibility.


• Be a leader in promoting compliance with 5S+1 and quality assurance practices.


• Be supervisors first point of contact and be able to fill in for supervisor when necessary.


• Ensure that accepted reasonable accommodations are met for employees in area of responsibility.

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

• Successful completion of company required training.


• Must have 1 year of manufacturing experience at Flex or equivalent experience.


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


• Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret complex instructions.


• Must have knowledge of some Microsoft office applications such as excel, word, and power point.


• Ability to speak and understand English.


• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables.


• 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

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process. Please email accessibility@flex.com and we'll discuss your specific situation and next steps (NOTE: this email does not accept or consider resumes or applications. This is only for disability assistance. To be considered for a position at Flex, you must complete the application process first).

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