Production Team Leader I

Watlow

60,000 USD-74,000 USD

United States, Minnesota, Winona

1241 Bundy Boulevard (Show on map)

Oct 03, 2025

Position Summary:

Leads Team Members in the cell(s) on the day-to-day production to ensure people, quality, delivery and cost (PQDC) targets are met to achieve the customer demand and Value Stream goals. Leads improvement efforts using tools and techniques in the Watlow Business System (WBS) serves as the subject matter expert on the operations in the cell(s).

Functional Contribution:

Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Serve as a mentor and role model
Manages planning and operations of area of responsibility
Interprets policies and communicate changes
Applies tools and techniques from experiences and expertise to reach solutions
Reports trends to Senior Leadership
Understand the majority of skills in an area of responsibility.
Understands the business operations
Facilitates, coaches, and mentors others
Solves complex problems
Determines scope, budget, and implementation timeframes of assigned projects
Understands the financial aspects of the business
Ability to organize and simplify data for understanding and action
Makes sound decisions based on evaluation of available information
Manages internal and external two-way communications to promote the best interest of all parties
Develops strong relationships and provides effective communication, prioritization, and alignment
Fosters collaboration
Promotes consensus
Identifies team member development needs and provides career coaching and planning assistance

Skills, Abilities and Mastery (Responsibility Matrix):

Delivery:

Coaching Forward - Create and/or foster a team environment that demonstrates genuine concern for the personal and professional development of all the team members, regularly recognizing the team members
Communication- Communicate effectively with all team members
Team Building Skills- Ensure the Watlow Way is fully deployed
Goal/Metric Deployment - Direct manufacturing operations in accordance with Value Stream Assessment (VSA) plan and strategy deployment.
RCCA (Root Cause Analysis & Corrective Action)/Problem Solving - Solve problems rapidly utilizing the root cause corrective action process and tools
Manage data from Time & Attendance System and effectively manage manpower to meet capacity requirements.
Lead department team members to ensure that people, quality, delivery, cost and growth are continuously being improved on to achieve strategy deployment objectives.
Lead / Participate and support Lean events - Ensure that Continuous Improvement (CI)/Lean techniques are being utilized to sustain daily operational improvement.
Utilize the daily operating system to drive PQDC (People, Quality, Delivery, Cost) performance at the cell level, i.e.
Assure Managing for Daily Improvement (MDI) effectively deployed into production cells
6S - Ensure the development and deployment of a safe and healthy work environment including appropriate training in safety practices.
Follow Standard Operating Process (SOP) Production Team Leader

Business Partner:

Delivering a production plan to VSL to achieve SOFP shipments
Collaborate with Human Resources on team staffing decisions, employee relations * Collaborate with Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) team on safety matters

Center of Expertise (COE)

Bronze Certification
PTL Roadmap

Education, Experience and Certification Requirements:

High school graduate/ GED preferred
Preferred two- year degree or Technical Certificate or related experience (3-5 years)
Leadership training

Diversity & Inclusion

We proactively embrace diversity in all its dimensions across our company and cultivate a culture of inclusion and forward thinking that respects and reflects each team member's individual strengths, views, and experiences. Watlow takes pride in being an inclusive equal opportunity employer and considers for employment qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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