Lead Hand

REPORTS TO: Foreman

SUMMARY:

A lead hand is required to promote a stable, harmonious, and profitable relationship with employees while operating the department efficiently and safely while continuously striving for improvement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate hand tools and power tools.
• Evaluate employees, equipment, and building techniques n a continuous effort to improve production.
• Train employees in as many different jobs as practical within your department.
• Co-operate and plan with other lead hands and foreman to ensure the production moves as efficiently as possible.
• Attend morning meeting to share and coordinate resources and personnel with other departments, to ensure forward progress of production.
• Always exercise appropriate authority, including disciplining and/or positive feedback to employees.
• Be available to employees within your department to answer questions, problem-solve, and consider initiatives.
• Take concerns and/or issues that you cannot resolve to the attention of the foreman.
• Ensure work done in your department is done correctly and safely.
• Inform foreman of need for additional/less production staff.
• Assist foreman in deciding approval of overtime and personal time off.
• Assist in employee reviews/evaluations.
• Attend lead hand meetings as required.
• Participate in meetings relating to projects in plant(s) as required.
• Check production orders periodically for specially ordered items and availability. Check with shipping and receiving for ETA on item(s).
• Shipping and receiving lead hand will initiate request for particular materials.
• Keep appropriate shop floor paperwork up to date. (Drawing Packages, Construction Details, QAI Check Sheets & Check Lists, Project Boards, etc.)
• Responsible for implementing SOPs on the shop floor and utilizing SOP Change Request as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• General building principles and tool knowledge.
• Keep the organization’s mission, vision, and values at the forefront of decision making.
• Blueprint literate.
• Able to interact positively with production staff and management.
• Monitor and check work to meet quality standards.
• Comfortably delegates of ideas or solutions on the factory floor (influencer).
• Able to reset priorities as required.
• Leadership ability.
• Teamwork.
• First Aid Training.
• Grandeur Forklift training/license.
• Electrical experience is necessary.

WORK CONDITIONS:

• Physical ability to lift up to 50lb.
• Able to operate air and power tools.
• Able to walk and stand for extended periods of time.
• Overtime as required.
• Able to travel for production safety seminars, meetings etc. if required.
• Work on production line if required.