**Job Title: Production Lead** **Job Description** As a Production Lead, you will be responsible for assigning daily team duties, ensuring compliance with work instructions and specifications, maintaining material availability for manufacturing processes, and ensuring accuracy of data recorded on production sheets and in the local ERP system. **Responsibilities** + Communicate cross-functionally with other departments to ensure necessary resources (materials and paperwork) are available when needed. + Execute manufacturing priorities as determined by supervision and monitor job activity to ensure adherence to the production schedule. + Communicate and update the team when adjustments to the schedule are required. + Work effectively with individuals of diverse backgrounds and opinions throughout the organization. + Delegate work assignments, matching responsibility to the person, and provide recognition for results. + Focus on solving conflict without blaming, maintain confidentiality, listen to others without interrupting, and remain open-minded. + Prioritize and plan work activities, use time efficiently, and communicate concerns regarding schedule disruptions to the production supervisor. + Meet productivity standards, complete work in a timely manner, strive to increase productivity, and work efficiently. + Execute scheduling plans and production priorities through day-to-day allocation of labor resources. + Provide effective hands-on training for new and existing team members and ensure proper documentation of training. + Interpret and enforce company policies and applicable regulations to workers, escalating repetitive infractions to the production supervisor. + Maintain the cleanliness of the facility and ensure a safe work environment for team members. + Provide feedback to the production supervisor on the performance of production team members. + Monitor the work area for neat appearance and organization of tools, materials, and paperwork (5S). + Ensure accuracy of material transacting of input materials, work in process, scrap, and finished goods to ensure proper inventory count quantities and lot traceability. + Report all labor documentation, assign hourly efficiencies, and monitor all production runs to ensure that work orders are filled out and accounted for properly. + Ensure accurate completion of all production documentation and paperwork, including adherence to good documentation practices (GDP). + Maintain KANBAN quantities for the “Pull” system. + Perform first piece and in-line inspection of material, as needed. + Accurately use measuring equipment such as micrometers and calipers. **Essential Skills** + Production supervision + Safety management + Continuous improvement + Quality inspection + Blueprint reading + Task delegation + Production and quality task performance + Documentation maintenance + Lean manufacturing + Micrometer usage + Caliper usage **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + High School completion or equivalent + Business or technical training or experience desired + Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) + Ability to utilize and navigate ERP systems **Why Work Here?** Join a stable and growing company that is the industry leader in manufacturing wire for the medical device industry. We are expanding operations into another facility and building out more production areas in our current building. This role offers the opportunity for internal growth and career advancement. **Work Environment** You will be working in a medical device manufacturing environment that is climate controlled. **Job Type & Location** This is a Permanent position based out of Rahway, New Jersey. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $41000.00 - $52000.00/yr. In addition to your annual compensation, as a full-time exempt employee, you will be eligible to participate in our complete benefits program, which include: • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Life and long-term disability insurance • 401k plan- company match • Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays Benefit eligibility will begin first of the month following 30 days of employment. 12 paid holidays, medical, dental, vision monthly bonus potential 401k match first 3% at 100% and next 2% at 50%, vested from day one **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Rahway,NJ. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Mar 13, 2025. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.