Team Leader, Maintenance - Aluminum (A shift)

Job Title: Team Leader, Maintenance - Aluminum (A shift)

Company: AISIN North Carolina

Department: Maintenance

Location: Durham, NC

Position Summary

The Maintenance Team Leader will manage a team of technicians ensuring the timely repair of equipment in such a manner as to minimize downtime and maximize productivity. The Maintenance Team Leader will be an effective communicator - Promoting Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery of objectives as set forth by the Group Leader and management.

Position Responsibilities

The incumbent is expected to perform the following functions that the company has determined are essential to this position:

• Checks on status of machine breakdown at 1 hour of downtime
• Ensures that the whiteboard is up to date at the firm hours of downtime of the specific department and the timeline has been started; Sends out updates on email and Microsoft Teams until breakdown has been completed
• Provides daily reviews of breakdowns and makes necessary corrections; Provides guidance to team members on breakdowns
• Ensures that if a Production Engineer is needed, they are contacted in a timely manner
• Completes assigned MSR's from a breakdown including reviewing timelines and adds all countermeasures to follow-up sheet from MSR
• Schedules team members to rebuild parts from breakdown; Records breakdown calls on log sheet and assigns team member to a breakdown
• Prioritize breakdowns according to the machines effect to production. eg) Bottleneck machines
• Checks KY sheet for team members on a breakdown, including submit parts request for out of stock or non-stocked part, enforce breakdown patrol when there are no breakdowns and download breakdown timelines to network
• PM shift - Ensures all preventative maintenance (PM) parts have been received for the month, creates priority schedules for backlogged PMs and creates, updates, and posts weekend/shutdown schedules for PM activity
• Kaizan / Follow-up - Input and rank all KZN and follow-ups to follow-up sheet; create and update weekend/shutdown schedules for required activity based on priority and submit parts requests for out of stocks
•  Training - Ensures that each team member attends their scheduled training courses, along with providing the correct training plan and materials as required; responsible for completing each team member skill evaluation and that daily 4S sign off sheet is up to date; Ensures all SOP's, 1-point lessons and troubleshooting guides are completed in a timely manner
• Budget - Reviews, approves and edits timecards in ETIME; Submits request to the support group on all obsolete and "zero parts on hand" 
• Reports/Documents - Responsible for creating/reviewing assigned MSR Weekly I-Mark Audits, weekly safety audits, maintenance awareness reports when necessary and monthly updated action plan; Collects EOS for team members, fills out GEMBA sheet, discusses with previous shift team leader to get any turnover or pass downs, checks emails for any information that needs to be shared with team members, inspects shop's 4S condition and make the previous shift aware of any issues and ensures that team members have and are wearing the proper PPE at all times
• Meetings - manages pre shift meeting with team members, runs daily morning meeting, MSR and cross-functional review (when group leader is absent), KY Training and pre and post shutdown meeting

Required Skills and Abilities

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Experience in a fast paced, heavy industrial environment
• Ability to read and interpret maintenance manuals and blueprints
• Demonstrated ability to analyze failures and implement effective corrective solutions
• Effective communication skills to influence all levels of personnel and to create change
• Demonstrated leadership ability to influence safety practices and initiatives
• Active Listening - giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking - talking to others clearly to convey information effectively.
• Coordination - adjusting actions in relation to others' actions and handling multiple tasks at the same time.
• Critical Thinking - using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Coaching: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the quality candidates for hire and promotion
• Brings forward continuous improvement-knowledge for improvements
• Ability to work as a team member with strong time management and record keeping skills
• Ability to develop work schedules and coordinate projects/assignments to meet deadlines
• Strong computer Knowledge-- MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

 Education/Training/Certifications

• Associates degree in a related field and 5+ year of manufacturing maintenance experience in a fast paced, heavy industrial environment

Travel Requirements

• Approximately 0 %
• Must be willing and available to travel to such locations and with such frequency as is necessary and desirable to meet business needs. 

Work Environment Requirements

With reasonable accommodation:

• Must be able to operate a personal computer, telephone, and other office equipment.
• Must perform job duties onsite, when necessary, except those duties that are customarily or by their nature performed offsite (for example, offsite customer visits).
• Must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to work on multiple assignments at once, and complete assignments within deadline and budget (if applicable) with satisfactory quality.
• Must be able to operate as an effective team member.
• Must be committed to a high standard of safety and be willing and able to comply with all safety laws and all company safety policies.

Attendance/Work Hour Requirements

• Must maintain an acceptable attendance record.
• Must be willing and available to work weekends and holidays as necessary and desirable to meet business needs.