Metco - Production Team Lead Ii - Paint & Load

Primary Responsibilities:

• Possess the skills to professionally conduct the duties below.
• Implementing process improvement initiatives as needed.
• Hold themselves and team members accountable to the goals of Sonoco and Metco Plant.
• Hold themselves and team members accountable to health and safety regulations/procedures.
• Follow all Human Resource guidelines while fulfilling duties.
• Conduct two documented Safety Audits per week.
• Performing production tasks for all operations with the ability to set-up and perform basic equipment maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Possesses the ability to train individuals on all tasks in their area of responsibility.
• Hold themselves and team members accountable for proper housekeeping standards.
• Inspecting materials, final products, and machinery for defects.
• Hold themselves and team members accountable to the quality processes.
• Managing the production of two paint houses in accordance with the Production Schedule, Scheduled Trucks, Customer Needs, and Raw Materials.
• Ensures all paint equipment, exhaust fans, wash station, dryer, and refurbishment equipment are maintained in operating condition and coordinates with maintenance needed actions.
• Ensures proper management of waste stream from area of responsibility.
• Managing the refurbishment steel reel process based on Customer Needs, Shipping Schedule, Available Personnel, and Machine Availability.
• Manage the loading of Finished Good trucks. Ensuring the correct product is loaded on the truck. Providing the Office Assistant with the correct documentation for invoicing the customer.
• Manage Paint and Consumable inventory based on Production Schedule. Provide Paint and Consumable order to Office Assistant for input into Coupa.
• Manages finished goods and refurbish reel inventory storage on yard as well as yard organization and yard working condition.
• Ensure the proper stencils are provided to the crew as needed according to the Production Schedule.
• Perform as the backup for stencil creation.
• Perform Monthly Physical Inventory counts of Finished Goods. Is responsible for ensuring the counts match perpetual inventory in plant ERP system.
• Perform inventory count of refurbished reels as needed.
• Conduct assigned Safety Audits per week. One must be an LCE audit.
• Willing and able to learn the Do Safety Differently process and apply it to their daily activities.
• Willing and able to complete all assigned training to include, if identified as a candidate, Leadership Training.
• Able to lead team members with professionalism, listening skills, confidentiality, controlled emotions, problem solving, openness, precise oral communication, and precise written communication.
• Delegate job tasks to the appropriate individuals with the training and skill set.
• Objectively evaluate performance and coach individuals when improvement is needed.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to work with Site Leader and follow direction in accordance with Plant goals.
• Other Duties as Assigned.

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