Position Description

Job Summary

Why work for us?

At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home.

What's the job?

Consistent with CertainTeed Gypsum Vision, Mission, Values and Objectives, the Shift Leader provides the leadership for employees to implement corporate continuous improvement program, CertainWay / World Class Manufacturing (WCM), throughout the site.

• Coaches and mentors Technicians by influencing behaviors to execute and meet assigned responsibilities that directly improve individual, team and plant performance.
• Identifies inefficiencies or gaps and utilizes facilitation skills to develop systems and processes to streamline where necessary utilizing WCM / Lean tools, to drive a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ability to facilitate team members in executing team meetings where each team member has ownership of a KPI to track and discuss daily.
• Pillar champion responsible for sustaining a clean, organized plant using 5s techniques as well as executing of Autonomous and Professional Maintenance sustaining actions.
• Develops and audits compliance reports to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Supports various training initiatives and business needs in alignment and coordination with other pillar leaders. Collaborates with process and area engineer to review Enhanced Work Orders (EWO) to ensure that necessary training is communicated and executed properly.
• Provides production teams with a holistic view of the plant and helps negotiate conflicting priorities within and between teams.
• Is a conduit of communication between production teams and plant management. Works to facilitate the teams to develop action plans to address issues and present solutions back to plant management and key stakeholders, as necessary.
• Provides an accident-free worksite while maintaining status as the preferred supplier of quality products and service with a goal of world class yield, availability, and reliability.
• Continuously evaluates workplace for safety concerns and ensures behavioral safety initiatives are performed to goal levels.
• Assures good housekeeping practices following 5S systems, enforces plant rules and safety regulations, counsel's employees and supports VMVO and WCM initiatives.

• Bachelors Degree
• Experience in high performance teams of self-directed teams in a production environment
• Previous work experience in lean principles of WCM.
• Ability to be an outstanding coach and leader, with succession planning and employee development skills.
• Active Interest and success in people development and training system.

• Two (2) years of post-high school education.
• Five (5) years of manufacturing/industrial/technical experience, or a minimum of four (4) years of military experience, or two (2) years of experience teaching, leading or coaching.
• Flexible, open-minded team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving capabilities to work effectively in corporate, manufacturing and team environments.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).