General Information:

General Repair & Maintenance Trades Management includes skilled trades workers who construct, maintain, and repair facilities systems, buildings, and equipment including: Carpentry, plumbing, electrical, heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC), welding, and mechanical repair & maintenance. Machining repair & maintenance trades (i.e., tool & die making, mold making, metal part making, etc.). Computer Numeric Control (CNC) Programming. Heavy Equipment Operators A Team Leader (M1) supervises para-professional employees. Responsibilities typically include: Setting day-to-day operational objectives for team. Problems faced may be difficult but typically are not complex. Ensures policies, practices and procedures are understood and followed by direct reports, customers and stakeholders.

• Monitors, assists and leads maintenance employees in continuous improvement regarding Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Inventory through the ITM deployment requirements.

• It is the role of the maintenance supervisor to monitor, assist with and improve all performance aspects of Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Inventory goals, through creating an engaged workforce and a culture of sustainability.
• Continuously promotes, coaches, participates and leads in Continuous Improvement activities.
• Leads and actively participates in Tier 2/3 meetings, including effective shift handovers.
• The incumbent will manage overall shift performance:
  • Safety - Audits and ensures compliance to applicable HSE systems.
  • Quality - Monitor and drives actions to improve yields.
  • Delivery - Work with production control to ensure on-time order delivery to customers.
  • Cost - Manages headcount (crewing) needs. Implements corrective actions to deviations from standards.
  • Inventory - Drive and maintain accurate inventories.
• It is the role of the supervisor to:
  • Coach shift employees to encourage good and positive work habits
  • Create developmental plans (training) for shift employees.
  • Develops a cross trained workforce plan, based on business requirements.
  • Ensures training systems are effective and in compliance with expected documentation.
  • Create a culture of employee understanding and adherence to applicable HSE and ITM requirements
• Ensures all HSE and ITM systems are continuously sustained and improved, such as:
  • Cell Risk Assessment Employee Development Plans
  • RPS - Rapid Problem Solving Tiered Accountability Meetings
  • Standardized Work Layered Audits
  • Leadership Standardized Work 5S
• Act as liaison to third party providers to ensure compliance to stated contract terms including but not limited to service level agreements, local and state codes, regulations, Hitachi Energy directives.
• Supervise third party providers to ensure they are compliant with OSHA, Hitachi Energy directives and Hitachi Energy safety culture.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
• Lives the 5 Hitachi Energy Value Pairs. For this particular job, special emphasis is placed on:
• SAFETY AND INTEGRITY - Conducts oneself and team to the highest standards. Ensures actions and behaviors do not compromise one's health or wellbeing or jeopardize one's career or the reputation of the company.
• OWNERSHIP AND PERFORMANCE - Gets results through a disciplined Leadership Standardized Work, Accountability and Ownership. Effective Communicator - Engages personnel through effective written and verbal communication
• INNOVATION AND SPEED - Champions Change; Leads and manages change through the use of Change Management.
• COLLABORATION AND TRUST - Make people better; Consistently coaches to develop employees. Leadership Impact - Gets engagement through visibility - spending time with people on the floor and ensuring that we are all on the same page. Foster's Teamwork and Diversity - Creates an open and constructive team environment.
• CUSTOMER FOCUS & QUALITY - Ensures the customer is the center of all our activities. Ensures delivery meets the utmost quality standard. Removes waste from areas of responsibility to ensure all activities are value added for our customer. Works consistently for continuous improvement and lean activities.

• Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of professional supervisory experience in manufacturing environments or Bachelor's Degree and 2-3 years of experience in a role with close interactions with Operations; OR Associate's degree and 4 years of professional supervisory experience in manufacturing environments; OR High School Diploma (or GED) and 6 years of lead and or maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Candidate must be willing to work alternate shifts as their home shift. Flexibility for other shifts as needed. Some weekend coverage.
• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Leadership experience in a transformer manufacturing environment
• Transformer manufacturing experience
• Previous Supervisor experience
• Knowledge in MS Office, including Power Point
• Exposure to ERP and Workforce Management software applications (e.g. SAP, etc.)
• Flexibility with shift assignments
• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
• Experience with timekeeping systems