Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

2nd Shift Ops Lead

Nidec Minster Corporation has an immediate opening for a 2nd Shift Ops Lead , whose primary function will be to maintain a safe work environment, provide supervision, and achieve company goals and objectives. This position will require strong organizational, communication and interpersonal skills in supervising a work force within a low volume, high mix manufacturing environment. Knowledge and experience in heavy fabrication, machining and/or mechanical/electrical assembly is desired.

Job Responsibilities:

• Supervise and coordinate the activities of 2nd shift employees, equipment and processes across Nidec Minster's entire 2nd second shift operations.
• Monitor production performance and drive KPI metric results such as Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.
• Ensure 2nd shift employee engagement and accountability are maintained at a high level.
• Collaborate with other departments, such as engineering, quality, logistics, etc. to coordinate production activities and quickly resolve issues that may arise.
• Provide effective communication with personnel from multifunctional groups and at all levels of the Company.
• Ensure customer satisfaction with all internal and external customers is achieved.
• Support operations with strong working knowledge of machinery and equipment capabilities, blueprints, metrology methods, and setup procedures.
• Assist employees with troubleshooting of processes and/or equipment issues and ensure resources are available, escalating issues as needed.
• Drive direct labor utilization and efficiency while effectively controlling indirect labor activities in achieving productivity targets.
• Set job assignments for employees and prioritize work appropriately across multiple functional areas by following production schedules.

• Train and develop employees to enhance their skills and capabilities while providing feedback and performance evaluations.
• Drive a continuous improvement culture by motivating employees to participate in process improvement initiatives and eliminating waste efforts.
• Any other duties, as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma is required.
• 3-5 years supervisory experience working with skilled craftsmen and leading a semi-skilled workforce is required.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities in a manufacturing environment are required.
• Knowledge and experience supervising machinists and/or mechanical & electrical assemblers in a discrete manufacturing environment is strongly desired.
• Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills are required.
• Must be able to multitask in an environment where priorities are fluid.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and manufacturing software systems are desirable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate and/or bachelor's degree in an engineering, business and/or technical discipline is preferred.
• Proven working knowledge and experience supervising employees operating CNC machines, manual mills, lathes, drills, etc. is desired.
• Proven working knowledge and experience supervising employees that build mechanical equipment and have skills such as hydraulics, pneumatics, electronics, blueprints, metrology and/or assembly procedures is desired.
• Working knowledge with Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) or training is preferred.
• Continuous Improvement/ Lean experience, including 6S is preferred.
• The ability to travel both domestically and internationally for short time periods, is preferred.

Based in Minster, Ohio, Nidec Minster Corporation, a subsidiary of Nidec Drive Technology, is a world class supplier of equipment and services for the material forming industry. Nidec Minster presses and material handling equipment are in production in more than 87 countries around the world. A reputation for extreme quality and rugged dependability makes Nidec Minster the obvious choice of leading-edge, productive stampers the world over.

An equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, M/F/D/V

Nidec Minster Corporation will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec Minster Corporation job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Preapproval from the Nidec Minster Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.

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