Results-driven Team Lead with over four years in high-volume manufacturing, including over three years in leadership. Led material handling teams, supported new product launches, and managed inventory while ensuring material flow and collaboration with cross-functional departments. Skilled in navigating changing priorities, solving operational challenges, and fostering a culture of safety and continuous improvement.
-Ensured production lines remained supplied with materials while maintaining warehouse inventory levels and working with externals to prevent any part shortages.
-Assigned daily work responsibilities and coordinated associates' schedules, including staggering breaks and lunches to ensure uninterrupted material delivery.
-Investigated and resolved inventory inaccuracies, overlapping production line delivery priorities, order exceptions, variance issues, and part shortages.
-Performed bi-hourly WIP counts to identify production risks and proactively prevent any line downs.
-Communicated with Production and PC managers to develop action plans and respond to any changes in production priorities.
-Worked closely with material handlers to understand concerns, provide coaching, support and remove obstacles to help them succeed in their roles.
-Collaborate daily with production, stamping, process, Npi, Mrb, and other cross-functional teams to support production objectives.
-Perform sos counts of in-house parts to production and stamping team to ensure no part risks.
-Coordinate daily with production and PC management to communicate team assignments and identify the primary POC for material handling support within each area.
-Review system demand for repack requirements, prioritize work based on production needs and assign repack activities to material handlers.
-Provide operational support to other team leads across multiple shops as needed while working to maintain production continuity throughout all shops.