Human Active Technology (www.hatcollective.com) is a rapidly growing designer and manufacturer of monitor mounting solutions as well as other ergonomic office products, including height adjustable tables, with a large and varied worldwide customer base. We specialize in custom manufacturing and pride ourselves in creative solutions and superior quality. We’re headquartered in Easton, Pa with offices and showrooms located in California, New York City, Chicago, and Denmark.

Job Summary:

• Provide oversight, coaching, and guidance for your respective work area.
• Ensure your team is working safely to produce product while adhering to quality standards.
• Conduct shift start up meetings to provide good communication and updates to the team on a daily basis.
• Oversee the approval of personnel timecards and time off requests within Paycom.com for your team.
• Guides and assists in developing standard work through documentation or illustrations to improve safety, quality and delivery of product and development of the work group.
• Operate with a continuous improvement mindset aimed at improving safety, quality, output, scrap reduction, etc… Teach, coach, and mentor your team to build their competency
• Lead the production team with a sense of urgency. Identify issues and resolve or escalate them when not understood to other departments (i.e. maintenance, engineering, quality)
• Initiate or assist with initiating quality holds and conducting root cause analysis when quality holds are discovered/initiated.
• Identify process failures to understand root cause and put countermeasures in place to prevent future recurrence.
• Performs Syteline transactions / troubleshooting & generates reports.
• Audits end of shift cleanup to verify associates have prepared the cells for the next shift.
• Maintain KPI’s of your respective work center, report out daily on work cell performance.

The ideal candidate(s) should have at least 2 years in an assembly or manufacturing environment, with excellent written, oral, problem solving and leadership skills and also with the ability to mentor and coach team members

• 2 year degree or equivalent experience in manufacturing environment.
• APIC’s, CPIM or Lean Certified Preferred.
• Basic Manufacturing Processes.
• Minimum 2 years in Supervision or Management.
• Minimum 1 year in Lean (Value Stream Mapping, Cellular Design and Waste Reduction).
• MIS systems, (Syteline, ERP, APS or MRP)
• Leadership skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent planning and organizing skills.
• Excellent soft skills and ability to motivate co-workers and staff.
• Ability to mentor and coach.
• Ability to lead others through change.
• Demonstrates respect for all individuals in all forms of communication.
• Maintains confidentiality as appropriate.
• Good problem solving skills using A3, PDCA, Fishbone diagram, or cause and effect methodologies.