** Production Group Leader - MC
- Military veterans preferred
2025-09-16 DWYER INSTRUMENTS, LLC
Other
/yr
employee
contract
Michigan City Indiana 46360 United States
Description:
Production Group Leader Grade 6
The Production Group Leader located in our Global Headquarters reports to our Plant Supervisor and is responsible for leading assigned group with the objective of achieving production goals including on-time completion of orders, completion of orders within targeted cycle time, making effective job assignments as allowed by the training matrix, and minimizing and accurately recording scrap and process fall out.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Regularly reviews released manufacturing orders and oversees their timely initiation into the manufacturing process identifying and resolving or reporting shortages blocking order processing.
Make job assignments to assigned employees to maintain efficient flow of orders through the assembly process.
Assist supervisor in identifying and resolving quality, parts, equipment, capacity, and employee performance problems, and executing the RMA process.
Perform assembly, calibration, and test operations in the manufacture of subassemblies and finished product from verbal or written instruction including BOMs, routings, work instructions, assembly drawings and samples. Assembly work may involve soldering.
Determine material, tool, and equipment requirements from manufacturing orders, assembly drawings and/or work instructions.
Perform assigned duties in a safe and expeditious manner in accordance with established labor standards, quality standards, and yields.
Troubleshoot routine production problems involving component part/assembly quality and tool/equipment failures.
Communicate production problems, within the scope of their assignments that would affect either the timely delivery or the expected quality of their work, to the Production Supervisor (or assigned leader).
May use a variety of power and hand tools such as screw drivers, torque wrenches, epoxy dispensers, riveters, hammers, soldering & de-soldering equipment, etc .
Use simple electrical or mechanical test devices to assure proper operation of parts or assemblies.
Accurately reports time & attendance, labor allocation and production information.
Maintain an effective dialogue with all employees to foster good employee morale.
