Team Leader - Production

The Team Leader – Production is responsible for ensuring that daily production targets are achieved through effective supervision of operations by managing team performance, ensuring that all machinery and equipment are in proper working order, and minimizing downtime.

Job Specification

Production & Manpower Management

q  Supervise and effectively utilize approved manpower to achieve production targets of:

• 1,000 x 20lb cylinders/hour
• 45 x 100lb cylinders/hour

q  Assign daily tasks to Technicians, verify the quality of work, and assist in operations as needed, especially in the absence of the Senior Team Leader – Production.

q  Monitor attendance by ensuring staff sign in/out and verify straight time and overtime hours.

Quality Control & Compliance

q  Assist the Senior Team Leader – Production with quality checks in the 20lb and 100lb cylinder production areas, including:

• Verifying tare weight input at the carousel.
• Ensuring correct fill weights on all cylinders.
• Confirming proper tightness testing procedures.
• Ensuring all seals are correctly placed.
• Ensuring all cylinders leave the plant with correct specifications and checking all 100lb cylinders for leaks or other defects.

q  Support computer scale personnel in adjusting filling machines to ensure accurate operations.

Bulk Operations & Cylinder Logistics

q  Ensure all Bulk Peddling Trucks are:

• Offloaded correctly with volume verified by the Plant Technician.
• Loaded via in-line meter with quantities verified and signed by the Plant Technician.

q  Check-in and check-out of Trailers and Tank Wagons:

• Incoming: Verify quantity of cylinders against Delivery Note (DN) and log into Covestone.
• Outgoing: Ensure trailers are loaded per Sales Department request, prepare DNs, and log data into Covestone.

Trailer & Cylinder Management

q  Inspect all cylinder transport trailers for:

• Functioning locking mechanisms.
• Compliance of floorboards with safety standards.

q  Ensure all cylinders are:

• Properly stacked and stored in designated areas.
• Always accounted for to maintain inventory accuracy.

q  Verify the number of painted cylinders and prepare documentation for contractor payments.

q  Ensure vehicles carry maximum allowable cylinder stock, in accordance with company policy, including painted cylinders.

Plant Maintenance & Safety

q  Ensures that Job Safety Analysis (JSA) form is completed daily when required and that employees sign to confirm their understanding of all identified risks, hazards, and the corresponding preventive measures.

q  Ensure continuous and proper operation of all plant equipment, reporting any issues to the Senior Team Leader – Production.

q  Always maintain cleanliness and orderliness of the plant to minimize risks and prevent accidents.

q  Promote and enforce strict adherence to Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) standards.

q  In the absence of the Senior Team Leader – Production, liaise with the Sales Department and the Sales Team Leader (Maloney) regarding daily stock requirements.

Person Specificationn

q  Possession of a Mechanical/Electrical Engineering Technician’s Diploma or equivalent

q  A minimum of three (3) C.X.C./G.C.E subjects including Mathematics and English

q  A certificate in Supervisory Management will be an asset

q  A minimum of Two (2) years’ experience supervising in a manufacturing environment