Production Lead

The Production Lead coordinates the day-to-day production process to ensure customer orders are completed accurately, efficiently, and on schedule. This is a highly hands-on role that works alongside the production team while maintaining the production schedule and board, coordinating priorities, and ensuring jobs move through the process to completion.

The Production Lead provides technical and hands-on support to the production team, helps resolve issues that may impact production, and works with the Production Manager and other departments to keep customer commitments on track.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Production Planning & Coordination

• Maintain the daily production schedule and production board based on customer requirements, due dates, and available resources.
• Coordinate the flow of work from order receipt through completion.
• Monitor job progress and follow up on outstanding work to keep production on schedule.
• Identify delays, material shortages, or technical issues and take action to keep work moving.
• Coordinate with Production, Engineering, Customer Service, Sales, and Warehouse as needed to resolve issues.
• Manage multiple jobs and adjust priorities as business needs change.
• Drive production jobs and projects through completion.

Hands-On Production

• Work alongside production associates and remain actively involved in daily production activities.
• Assemble hydraulic hoses, filters, and other fluid power products according to specifications and work instructions.
• Perform cutting, crimping, assembly, testing, and inspection activities.
• Read and interpret drawings, specifications, work orders, and assembly instructions.
• Troubleshoot production and assembly issues and provide hands-on support when needed.
• Verify completed work for accuracy, quality, and customer requirements.

Production Process, Safety & Quality

• Monitor the production process to ensure work is completed efficiently, accurately, and according to established procedures.
• Ensure production associates have the tools, materials, information, and support needed to complete their work.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflow, productivity, quality, and turnaround time.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe production environment.
• Follow and reinforce safety policies, proper PPE use, and established quality procedures.
• Address safety, quality, and production concerns and communicate significant issues to the Production Manager.

Team Support & Communication

• Serve as a day-to-day technical and process resource for production associates.
• Provide hands-on training and guidance on assembly processes, equipment, quality, and standard work.
• Communicate production priorities, schedule changes, and job requirements clearly.
• Provide the Production Manager with updates on production progress, issues, and resource needs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.