Production Lead

Production Lead   Trulite is one of North America's largest architectural glass and aluminum fabricators and distributors, with facilities across the country. We are currently seeking a Tempering Production Lead to join our Birmingham, AL team. This is an excellent opportunity to grow with a well-established, industry-leading company.   Location   American Insulated Glass 2700 19th St N Birmingham, AL 35207   What Brought You Here Compensation Range: $20 - $25/hour, depending on experience Quarterly safety bonus opportunities Shift Schedule: 7:00 am – 4:00 pm, OT as needed Benefits starting DAY ONE!  Who You Are   As the Tempering Production Lead, you play a key role in coordinating and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the tempering line. You are responsible for ensuring the efficient, safe, and high-quality production of tempered glass products. A strong leader, you communicate effectively, engage your team and coworkers, and foster a collaborative work environment. You are focused, detail-oriented, and driven to complete tasks accurately and on time.   What You Will Be Doing Lead and support daily operations of the tempering department to meet production schedules and quality standards. Maintain a safety-first work environment, utilizing proactive safety and ensuring all associates adhere to personal protective gear requirements and standard operating procedures. Ensure line cleanliness and organization through the implementation and enforcement of 5S tenets. Audit all stages within glass production processes, ensuring employee and machine adherence to all aspects of conformance quality. Monitor quality of upstream parts and materials from internal and external suppliers. Ascertain that all associates are actively performing and recording checks daily. Meet or exceed on-time delivery expectations through adherence to, and completion of, the daily production schedule. Perform cycle time and standard work audits, making sure associates are adhering to performance and efficiency standards. Ultimately responsible for production throughput and output goals. Develop associates through coaching, mentoring, and cross-training. Responsible for maintaining and executing on the departmental cross-training matrix to attain adequate personnel flexibility and coverage for all workstations. Employ lean tools and methodologies such as waste identification and elimination, plan-do-check-act (PDCA), root cause analysis, etc. Record and report out on all hourly and aggregate daily metrics for safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Responsible for maintaining the frontline management system. Make sure daily operator-level preventative maintenance is being accomplished, and coordinate with maintenance on other equipment needs. Uphold company policies around factors such as attendance and conduct, administering corrective actions when necessary. Initiate and engage in continuous improvement efforts. Leadership Responsibilities:   While this role is not a formal supervisor position, the Tempering Production Lead provides essential floor-level leadership by: Participate in team meetings, safety briefings, and plant-wide initiatives as needed. Contribute to cross-functional teams and improvement projects. Guiding and supporting team members. Assisting in employee training and development. Acting as a liaison between team members and management. Skills You Bring Must be at least 18 years old. 1-2 plus years of prior lead experience  Prior manufacturing experience Prior experience in glass preferred Knowledge of and ability to follow all health, safety, quality, and labor standards applying to your area of responsibility. Must be able to stand, twist, bend, and stoop for long periods of time. Able to read a tape measure and match the correct label with the correct type of glass. Must be able to lift 75 pounds on a regular basis. Must be able to work in a noisy environment. Must be able to work in hot or cold temperatures. Must be able to bend, crouch, kneel, stand, sit, lift, push, and pull repetitively and/or throughout the duration of the shift. Steel-toe boots required (not company-provided). Passing pre-employment requirements such as physical, drug screen, weight lift test, and criminal background check are condition of employment for all positions. Why Trulite   Trulite offers the most comprehensive benefit coverage in the industry. We give our employees immediate access to health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits, as well as provide short/long-term disability coverage to protect them financially if they should incur a non-occupational illness or accident. Stay with us for a year, and your 401 (k) employer match is 100% vested and immediately becomes part of your ever-improving financial plan. This is also true for those who select and contribute to their Health Savings Account. We match on both employee and family coverage to help cover out-of-pocket expenses, and if unused, continues to grow until needed.  The employer match for your HSA, if you choose to participate, is also vested immediately at 100%, improving your financial health.   Trulite bears most of the cost of your benefits. We structured these benefits because we care not only about your physical well-being but your financial health and welfare too. Let us show you why Trulite values you as an employee and how we will help you achieve financial independence. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Created: 2025-08-23