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Join the Piper Products Team – Fabrication Team Lead

Piper Products, a CFS Brands company, is looking for an experienced and motivated Fabrication Team Lead to join our manufacturing team in Wausau, Wisconsin!

As part of CFS Brands, Piper Products is part of a growing organization that provides innovative products and solutions to customers across the foodservice, healthcare, and other commercial markets.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a hands-on manufacturing environment while also providing day-to-day leadership and support to a team. The Fabrication Team Lead will help coordinate daily production activities, support and train team members, promote a safe and positive work environment, and help ensure quality and production expectations are met.

If you have fabrication or manufacturing experience, strong leadership skills, and enjoy helping a team succeed, we’d love to hear from you!

Come grow your career with Piper Products and CFS Brands!

Shift:  1st Shift, Monday - Friday, 5:00 am - 1:30 pm, plus overtime                               

 Essential Functions | Accountabilities | Performance Measures

• Assures that all personnel have their work assigned, scheduled, and rotated on a regular basis.
• Responsible for adequately explaining all the necessary phases of any assembly operations so that each person has a clear understanding of what must be done, how to do it, and what must be done next.
• Assures that all operations are performed in an efficient and expeditious manner for maximum effectiveness. Sets up additional assignments and workstations before Assembler is moved.
• Responsible for training and directing all personnel to produce profitably and to perform all the tasks required with thorough knowledge of assembly operations.
• Ensures intercommunication of information pertinent to production, operations, plant, and employee protection and welfare.
• Responsible for maintaining records of production, tests, and/or other operations as required.
• Responsible for proper scanning, getting the correct POCR to match label on finished goods or work in process, then making sure pallets are moved to the proper location for shipment to the correct Distribution Center.
• Responsible for evaluating personnel under his/her direction for the purpose of preparing reviews, action notices, disciplinary notices, change of status, etc.
• Responsible for all supplies, materials, hardware, etc., and the necessary inventory required, and that all these are properly stored and accounted for. Assure that all hardware at workstations is stored neatly and not mixed (bolts, screws, etc)
• Responsible for consistently inspecting all parts as they are produced and assembled to ensure a high-quality product consistent with company standards and maintain a logbook on all problems encountered to establish a history for problem areas.
• Accepts all work assignments and is responsible for their scheduled completion. Accurate feedback is essential (verbal and written)
• Utilizes department personnel to ensure and maintain a neat, clean, and orderly working department daily. The 55 standards are met daily.
• Responsible for obtaining the assistance of appropriate members of management as soon as conditions indicate the need for corrective action, and any undesirable condition or for knowledge or ability beyond his/her own. Failure to act accordingly may result in costly waste or damage.
• Work with feeder departments to ensure product flow to the line.
• Utilize the department scheduling board.
• Ability to solve practical problems on the floor.

 Travel Required:  None

Work Environment:   Manufacturing

Physical Demands:

• Wear safety attire and protective gear on a daily basis.

• Usually work indoors. This site may not be temperature controlled.
• Often exposed to loud sounds and distracting noise levels.
• Are exposed to hazardous equipment on a weekly basis.
• May be exposed to contaminants.
• May share workspace with others
• The physical and work environment demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand. 
• The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. 
• The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.