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Magna International

MP&L Team Lead

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Hybrid
Ethridge, TN
Mid level
Hybrid
Ethridge, TN
Mid level
This role involves team development, coordinating material handling using Kanban, ensuring FIFO compliance, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
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What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.
Job Responsibilities:
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITIONS:
  • Develop Team Members through coaching and mentoring.

  • Possess a sense of urgency, accountability, and be able to work with limited supervision.

  • Interact closely with Production, Engineering and Quality to effectively plan and execute Kanban requirements to support Plant requirements.

  • Coordinates and implements effective material handling techniques to assure material availability while achieving defined Kanban levels.

  • Establish and maintain effective communications with all departments.

  • Assure that materials pulled are in accordance with FIFO methods

  • Assist with continuous improvement projects as assigned.

  • Assure that 5S activities are conducted daily and necessary communication is in place for the handling of special projects or situations.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
  • General understanding of computers and handheld RF equipment.

  • Ability to work as part of a team and lead.

  • Flexibility in working overtime when needed, and supplying coverage to other shifts.

  • Attention to detail and quality a must.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
General factory environment with occasional expectations of the employee functional job description. Some of the physical demands of this position include sitting for prolonged periods of time, walking up and down staircases, occasional lifting, and occasional stooping and bending. Able to address and resolve ambiguity; prioritize, multi-task and work independently.
EQUIPMENT / TOOLS USED:
Some of the equipment and tools used are sit down fork lift, tugger, carts, walkies, RF Scanners
KNOWLEDGE:
  • Basic understanding of material flow operations

  • Understanding of mobile equipment inspection and operations

EDUCATION:
  • High School Diploma or General Education Diploma

WORK EXPERIENCE:
High Experience working with mobile equipment, FIFO, PFEP, and other Lean or continuous improvements concepts and practices are highly desired.
Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Worker Type:
Regular / Permanent
Group:
Cosma International

Top Skills

Fifo
Kanban
Mobile Equipment
Rf Scanners

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