Team Leader

Your Responsibilities

As a Team Leader for the John Deere Harvester Works division located in East Moline, IL you will manage and monitor individual and department performance on safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency and take corrective action including discipline as needed. In addition, you will:

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  Lead employee engagement activities while establishing a positive employee environment through communications, feedback, and overall guidance.
• Ensure that assigned personnel have appropriate training, work instruction, and tooling to successfully execute their jobs.
• Lead safety through regular safety communications, driving engagement in the Continuous Improvement (CI) Safety and ergonomics prompting near miss reporting with a focus on quick, thorough safety corrective actions.
• Monitor Control Plans, troubleshoot workmanship problems, and generally supervise production activities to ensure that manufactured products meet or exceed all established quality requirements.
• Drive department-level support of factory goals regarding 5S implementation, Continuous Improvement, manpower planning, and operating budgets.

Visa Sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

What Skills You Need

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  Willingness to work overtime, weekends, and variable shifts.
• Excellent communicator who thrives on solving problems and working in a team environment.
• Demonstrated experience making sound decisions and being proactive in a high-pressure or time-sensitive environments.
• Ability to conduct crucial conversations, including ability to enforce company policies, practices, procedures and work rules.
• Experience communicating across functions, such as: supply management, engineering, operations, and human resources or labor relations.

What Makes You Stand Out

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  1 or more years of experience with production control systems, preferably within John Deere.
• 1 or more years of experience in a leadership role in an union environment.
• 2 or more years of experience with shop floor manufacturing and incentive pay systems (such as CIPP).
• Cross-functional work experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Material Control, or Supply Management.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing lean manufacturing techniques to drive business improvements.
• Possess a good working knowledge of the appropriate operating and information systems used in Operations (Word, Excel, SAP, SharePoint, PowerBI).

Education Details

Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

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  Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Technology, Operations, Business/Management, or Supply Management or equivalent experience.