Value Stream Leader-Poly/Building 8

Responsibilities

             Provide team leadership and coaching

• Promotes a safe work environment
• Create an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort
• Provide the team with a vision of the project objectives
• Motivate and inspire team members
• Lead by setting a good example (role model) – behavior consistent with words
• Coach and help develop team members; help resolve dysfunctional behavior
• Facilitate problem solving and collaboration
• Strive for team consensus and win-win agreements
• Ensure discussions and decisions lead toward closure
• Maintain healthy group dynamics
• Intervene when necessary to aid the group in resolving issues
• Assure that the team members have necessary education/training to effectively participate on the team
• Encourage creativity, risk-taking, and constant improvement
• Recognize and celebrate team and team member accomplishments and exceptional performance

          Focus the team on the tasks at hand or the internal and external customer requirements

• Coordinate with internal and external customers as necessary
• Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance
• Assure that the team addresses all relevant issues within the specifications and various standards
• Provide necessary business information
• Serve as meeting manager or chairman
• Initiate sub-groups or sub-teams as appropriate to resolve issues and perform tasks in parallel
• Ensure deliverables are prepared to satisfy the project requirements, cost and schedule
• Help keep the team focused and on track

            Coordinate team logistics

• Work with functional managers and the team sponsor to obtain necessary resources to support the team’s requirements
• Obtain and coordinate equipment, and communication lines for team members
• Establish meeting times, places and agendas
• Coordinate the review, presentation and release of design layouts, drawings, analysis and other documentation to team members

             Communicate team status, task accomplishment, and direction

• Provide status reporting of team activities against the program plan or schedule
• Keep the project manager and product committee informed of task accomplishment, issues and status
• Serve as a focal point to communicate and resolve interface and integration issues with other teams
• Escalate issues which cannot be resolved by the team
• Provide guidance to the team based on management direction

             Required Qualifications:

• Microsoft Office Products
• Excellent  verbal and written communication skills
• Flexible to changing priorities
• Proven experience to analyze information effectively and present results through reports, spreadsheets and presentations.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines, organize, multitask and prioritize.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Forklift license or willing to obtain.
• Proficient with Navision.
• Blueprint reading.
• Willing to pursue further training.
• Willing to become an ISO auditor.