**DESCRIPTION** We are looking for a Talented Team Leader to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Inc. facility in Plainfield, IN. **Job Summary:** Coordinates the activities of a group of employees in order to meet established production specifications and schedules including volume, cost, wastage targets and quality standards. **In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:** • **Enhancing Safety:** By stopping work and reporting any major injury hazards immediately, you’ll help maintain a safe working environment. • **Promoting Health:** Reporting any work-related injuries, illnesses, incidents, or hazards will contribute to a healthier workplace. • **Ensuring Compliance:** Adhering to HSE standards, policies, and procedures ensures that the workplace meets all safety and environmental requirements. • **Upholding Quality:** Following standard work, process documentation, and quality procedures like SPC and poka-yoke will ensure high-quality outputs. • **Supporting Delivery:** Monitoring team performance and coordinating tasks will help meet work specifications, schedules, and quality standards. • **Facilitating Communication:** Effectively communicating with team members and support teams will ensure smooth operations and quick resolution of issues. • **Fostering Continuous Improvement:** Participating in training and development, and coaching less experienced team members, will drive ongoing improvements. • **Encouraging Teamwork:** Actively engaging in ways to improve quality, safety, processes, and material flow will enhance overall team performance. **RESPONSIBILITIES** **To be successful in this role you will need the following:** • **Collaborate Effectively:** Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with others to achieve shared goals. • **Communicate Clearly:** Develop and deliver communications that are tailored to the needs of different audiences, ensuring clarity and understanding. • **Make Quality Decisions:** Make timely and well-informed decisions that help move the organization forward. • **Drive Results:** Consistently achieve results, even when faced with challenging circumstances. • **Ensure Accountability:** Hold yourself and others accountable to meet commitments and deliver on promises. • **Instill Trust:** Gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity. • **Manage Complexity:** Navigate and make sense of complex and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems effectively. • **Handle Conflict:** Manage conflict situations effectively, minimizing disruptions and maintaining a positive work environment. • **Champion Health and Safety:** Model proactive health and safety behaviors, identify and report hazards, and participate in actions to improve workplace safety. • **Apply Manufacturing Knowledge:** Implement changes in processes, equipment, and applications to meet functional needs and drive continuous improvement. • **Value Differences:** Appreciate and leverage the diverse perspectives and cultures within the organization to enhance collaboration and innovation. **Education, Licenses, Certifications:** • High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations. • This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations. **Experience:** • Requires significant relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through education, training or on-the-job experience. **QUALIFICATIONS** **Overview:** Works with the Production Facilitator to ensure that production is run with the highest standards of quality, safety, and efficiency in order to maintain customer demands. **Job Responsibilities:** **•** Train all team members on the safety and quality procedures and standards, and standardized work procedures. • Train new team members on existing and new process changes as necessary and maintain training log. • Carry out daily checks to ensure the equipment and machines are in safe working order, and operators are performing work in an ergonomically safe manner. • Take corrective action on all unsafe work conditions, including advising on how to improve ergonomically unsafe conditions. • Practice and adhere to all safety requirements. Ensure that all team members and visitors know and follow the safety rules and procedures while in the area. • Perform daily safety walks and checks in your area, including PPE checks for employees, ensure team members perform standardized work, and review equipment racks. • Clearly understand the operation and safety hazards of each piece of equipment in your area • Complete and forward all close call and incident reports to EHS Manager within 24 hours. • Communicate all safety problems and concerns with the team. • Determine the workplace organizational standards and ensure that 5S is being followed by the team per posted work assignments. • Communicate quality alerts, concerns, and issues to team and develop short- and long-term corrective actions using 8D process. • Assist in ensuring compliance to ISO 9001 and communicate responsibilities to team members • Complete first and last piece check lists each day. • Assist quality department in the development of work instructions for all processes within the team. Post and communicate changes as necessary. • After a problem has occurred (safety, quality and production), perform a root cause analysis to prevent future problems using appropriate corrective action process (8D, Internal Audit and lean manufacturing). • Create visual items concerned with quality standards. • Personally verify that a defect listed as “repaired” by a team member was properly repaired and implement short-term and long-term corrective actions for this issue. • Lead continuous improvement activities to continue to eliminate waste. Support the process and productivity improvements. Chart and communicate improvements to the team. • Encourage team member suggestions on improving safety, quality and production within the team, and keep them informed on the status of their suggestions. • Know and be able to measure all quality standards which relate to the team process. • Maintain APS and hour-by-hour boards and keep all information on the board fully updated, including post quality tracking charts and sheets, audit and maintain safety board and flexibility charts. • Respond to Andon calls before production is stopped. Make repairs while production is running as much as possible. • Allocate manpower according to the situation and team member skills. Cover for absenteeism where needed within the team, group, or department. • Perform equipment, forklift, machine and tooling checks for shift start-up, and when necessary, report any abnormalities to the Facilitator. • Identify and support all throughput improvement opportunities; and maximize the value-added cycle time on jobs. • Know the goals of crib material spend and manpower and establish a baseline to control the costs through waste elimination. • Ensure job rotation among team members are fair and balanced • Ability to operate a computer fluidly • Ability to investigate and troubleshoot discrepancies • May perform other duties as assigned • Above average math skills preferred • Two (2) or more years in a team lead or supervisor function, three (3) or more years preferred • One (1) or more years in a manufacturing environment., three (3) or more years heavy duty manufacturing environment preferred The Plainfield facility has the right to deem a person qualified for a position if that person has had one or more years of experience in the position or similar position. **Job** Manufacturing **Organization** Cummins Inc. **Role Category** On-site **Job Type** Shop **ReqID** 2410856 **Relocation Package** Yes **Cummins and E-Verify** At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates the right to work using E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Visit http://EEOC.gov to know your rights on workplace discrimination.