Lead (Maintenance)

Job Posting Start Date 04-03-2025 Job Posting End Date 05-30-2025

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.

Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose -- to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Lead located in Austin, TX.

Reporting to the Operations Supervisor the Lead will be responsible for providing leadership and direction to groups of non-exempt employees.

Work Shift: 6am- 6 pm Thu, Fri, Sat every other Wed

What a typical day looks like:

• Provide ongoing feedback on performance of individuals through both formal and informal evaluations.

• Initiate and participate in process development and cost improvement projects.

• Coordinate people resource requirements for the department.

• Assist in department budget planning and manage department expenses.

• Communicate daily plan and any production or customer service issues

• Highlight material shortages, interface with Expediter/Purchasing on any part shortages

• Recognize and monitor bottlenecks.

• Report and alert resources concerning downtime.

• Interface with Test Support/Maintenance on equipment problems.

• Track time for NPI/Pre-production/re-work.

• Communicate with opposite shift to ensure communication flow.

• Update department communication boards.

• Follow quality indicators.  Stop and alert if predefined indicators are below target.

• Primary contact for response to situations where scrap is occurring in any process step.

Education / Experience

Typically requires an Associate's Degree, vocational or technical training, or equivalent experience.  Typically requires 2 years of related experience.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

Has awareness of Flex technologies/ techniques.  Demonstrates functional and/or process knowledge and participates in process.  Requires high level of competency related to function.  Demonstrates advanced technical skills. Ability to read and comprehend and interpret moderately complex instructions. Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Decision Making / Discretion.

 

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Job Category

Operations

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process. Please email accessibility@flex.com and we'll discuss your specific situation and next steps (NOTE: this email does not accept or consider resumes or applications. This is only for disability assistance. To be considered for a position at Flex, you must complete the application process first).