Manufacturing Production Lead! Competitive benefits, upward mobility, and a well-established team!

Job Summary: Express Employment Professionals in Bellingham has partnered with a manufacturing company in Burlington hiring a production lead! This company offers competitive benefits, takes pride in their work, and upward mobility! In this role, you will handle operating production lines to ensure safety and efficiency, supervising operators, demonstrating leadership and ensuring compliance within company departments, loading raw materials into machines as needed, and more. The right person for this role would be someone who has a strong attention to detail, effective communication, and leadership skills, and manufacturing experience.

Job Duties & Responsibilities include:
-Ensure all operations staff are following and executing all operations and equipment safely.
-Escalate any safety concern to your Shift Supervisor upon observation.
-Oversee and provide constant training and technical help to all operation staff ensuring they are following all work instructions and best practices.
-Report any defective/non-conforming product or behavior to your Shift Supervisor at once upon observation.
-Perform quality control as required by the work instructions and as instructed by the production and quality leaders and staff.
-Ensure traceability of the product and its components through proper use of the Data Collection System, ensuring that the system is always active and functional.
-Check and ensure the minimum stock of raw materials in production necessary to fulfill the production schedule, refilling and ordering as needed.
-Solve first level of maintenance issues ” on production equipment in collaboration with the Maintenance Technician and following all procedures.
-Work with the Maintenance Technician to resolve maintenance problems at a higher level.
-Meet with the Lead Hands and Shift Supervisors of the previous and subsequent shifts, transferring information about problems and solutions implemented during their shift.
-Inform the Shift Supervisor about issues about production, quality, process, and/or organization of personnel or resources upon observation.
-Propose to the Shift Supervisor improvements to all procedures and processes.
-Minimize the risk of accidents and quality issues.
-Maximize the technical knowledge and the engagement of the operations staff, the uptime of the equipment, and the quality of the finished product.
-Maximize the traceability of the product.
-Achieve the production goals and improvements outlined by the Shift Supervisor
-Build the spirit of cooperation.
-Complete other tasks as directed.
Benefits Available to Eligible Express Associates:
-Paid Time Off (vacation, sick, and holiday)
-Pay increases every 3 months for the 1st year of employment
-401(k) Retirement Plan
-Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Plans
-Health Savings Account option
-Supplemental/Voluntary Insurance Plans
-Employee Assistance Program
-Tuition Reimbursement Program
-Employee Recognition Programs
-Employee Purchase Program

Pay: $20.50-$26/HR, depending on shift, increases every three months for the 1st year.

Position Type: Evaluation
Location: Burlington, WA
Shift: 6:00 am-6:00 pm OR 6:00 pm to 6:00 am
Express offers a $200 referral bonus for any successful referral! Ask us for more details!

We take walk-in interviews Monday-Friday, or you can call or text us at 360.734.2457 for an immediate phone interview or come in to see us! We are open from 7:00 AM-5:00 PM.
For confidential consideration, we offer several ways to apply:
-Call or text our office at 360-734-2457 for an immediate phone interview.
-Complete an online application on our website: