Founded in 1910,KONEis a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable.  Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as aninnovation and sustainabilityleader with repeatedrecognitions byForbes,Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.   

Factory Team Leader supports the Supervisor in leading, guiding, and mentoring of team members. He/she is in responsible for leading the production operators and technicians assuring safe, high quality, complete-on-time delivery of KONE components. He/she acts as the first interface between workers and the Supervisor 

Job Duties

Lead production operatives:

• Studies production schedules and estimates work hour requirements for completion of job assignments. 

• Drives safety, productivity and quality in production with supervisor. 

• Interpret specifications, blueprints, and job orders to workers and assigns duties. 

• Maintains production records. 

• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shop, department, or work crew. 

• Allocates operatives to work stations in cooperation with production supervisor .

• Trains operatives to new tasks .

• Works closely with the supervisor to drive a culture of continuous improvement .

Performance Measures:

• Volume per shift productivity and efficiency .

• Optimize direct working hours - reducing indirect hours with the best use of the resources .

• Reducing lost time in production  .

• Daily communication to the people (Targets, Quality, IIFR etc) .

• Complete on Time .

• Rework/production scraps reduction .

• Safety and environmental measures .

• Ideas and suggestions in his area.

Hiring Requirements

• Knowledge and experience of manufacturing/operational process .

• Solid experience in production processes and in managing and leading people in standard or special production.  

• Good knowledge about the processes in component installation for a better understanding of the customer and quality needs.  

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities .

• High school degree. 

• Basic English knowledge. 

• Computer skills – MS Office and SAP is a plus .