Company Overview
When you feel connected to your work, you feel more engaged. At Haworth, you can pursue a career that offers you ample opportunity to build your portfolio and expand your skillset in an exciting and inclusive environment. Join a company that values innovation, inspiration, and you!
HAWORTH is a global leader in office furniture and architectural interiors. As a valued member of our team, you can make your mark on the world and reach your full potential within a culture of connectivity.
Why Haworth? Find out more here!
Here at Haworth, our members enjoy benefits from their first day of employment including:
- 4 weeks paid time off and an option to purchase an additional week
- Priority Health Insurance
- Newly renovated on-site gym open 24 hours
- 401k Benefit - If you contribute 6% of your annual salary, Haworth will contribute up to 7%
- Annual bonus programs
- Company provided Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability & Life Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement program
- 8 hours of paid volunteer time off
- Zero waste to landfill company which provides personal on-site recycling drop-off
Job Overview
We are currently looking for a Team Leader - 2nd Shift to join our team in Holland, MI at our steel plant. The schedule is 2:45pm-10:45pm, Monday-Friday.
As a Team Lead You Will
Leads team to attain goals in Safety, Quality, Schedule, Cost, Culture, and Environment by providing effective coaching and training to distribution/production team members. Organizes and performs full range of complex duties in fast-paced environment that requires thorough understanding of functions within work cell, as well as policies and procedures. Works with supervisor and other team leaders to manage and prioritize staffing assignments to ensure customer demand and production schedule are met.
Essential Functions
- Prepares production floor for daily production; monitors and adjusts production based on inventory and planned machine downtime, ensuring work center is sufficiently staffed to meet production demands.
- Monitors and predicts flow to ensure work center is able to respond efficiently to production changes.
- Observes, maintains, coordinates, and completes standard work to improve work processes and ensures members are trained to perform standard work.
- Monitors and predicts flow to ensure work center is able to respond efficiently to production changes.
- Updates production metrics and facilitates regular team communications; maintains Team Boards.
- Works with supervisor to develop annual plans for goal attainment and facilitate cascading of goals and objectives to production team members.
- Motivates members to enhance production quality and, at same time, maintain production requirements.
- Performs other duties within scope as assigned.
- Must be able to perform all essential job function with/without accommodation.
- Ability to effectively use office automation, communication, software, and tools used in Haworth office environment.
Ideally, You Have Also Demonstrated The Following
- Strong interpersonal skills to relate with all members of team.
- Ability to analyze and solve problems and use metrics to predict performance.
- Ability to collaboratively work with others.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Must be safety “champion”.
- Ability to be flexible and willing to adapt in dynamic environment.
- Ability to give direction to team members.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, blueprints, and/or quality document.
Required Qualifications
- Highschool Diploma or equivalent.
- Three years experience working in a team-based manufacturing environment.
- Ability to work comfortably when exposed to noise, dust, fumes, dirt, solvent, glue, grease, oil, paint, heat, and/or vibrations
- Ability to work overtime, weekends and holidays as needed.
- Ability to perform the position with or without reasonable accommodations (If you have questions please contact the Haworth Medical Center - 616-393-1131)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in SAP
- Bilingual
