• Plan and schedule personnel in cooperation with the Production Manager (i.e. vacation, temporary workers, overtime work). • Provide production expectations and quality feedback to team members in daily start up meeting. • Monitor daily established production requirements throughout the shift to ensure customer requirements and plant objectives are met while ensuring HSE and 5S policies and standards are followed. • Train and monitor employee performance to ensure operator is certified and operator training matrix is updated and meeting departmental targets. • Compile KPI data and populate end of shift report. Distribute to manager and appropriate operations and support personnel. • Ensure job training and daily job rotations are in place and enforced. • Ensure compliance of the UAW contract, team member handbook, safety guidelines, all rules, programs and procedures that pertain to production team members. • Monitor quality of product throughout the production process. • Participates in Team Leader meetings and Quality initiatives. • Daily review of process and people to identify and implement CI opportunities. • Quality System: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Quality requirements. • Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS): Understand, apply and meet all function-related EHS requirements. • Product Safety: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Product Safety requirements. • Compliance: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Compliance requirements. • Information Security: Understand, apply and meet all function-related IT / Information Security and confidentiality of YFAI information requirements. • Must comply with all company policies and procedures. • Employee must have the ability to work additional hours and / or overtime as needed or assigned to complete job duties on time. • Ability to multitask, interact politely and professionally with customers, suppliers and vendors, and work cooperatively with employees at all levels. • Ability to maintain predictable and regular attendance, arrive to designated location on time, or be at assigned location ready to work for assignment (plant, corporate office, or remote). Required Qualifications • 3-5 Minimum Years of Experience with Production. • 1-3 Minimum Years of Experience within the automotive industry. • 2-3 years of previous experience supervising and leading a team of direct reports. • Must be able and willing to travel and work at customer sites, including industrial manufacturing plants which might require climbing, lifting, or working in confined spaces. • Computer literacy. • Excellent oral communication skills • Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills.