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Team Leader - Closeout/Blast/Paint

Southern Company

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Location
Randleman, NC
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Team Leader oversees personnel and products in assigned work centers, managing training, quality, safety, and continuous improvement. The role monitors shop orders and operations against routing, schedule, and labor-hour targets, reports status to the Production Supervisor, and reviews quality data and work instructions to support corrective actions. The position also coordinates production planning, equipment service, documentation, and team safety.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Mechanical Drawing InterpretationElectrical Drawing InterpretationOrganizationTime ManagementProject SchedulingProduction Workflow ManagementWork PrioritizationTeam DevelopmentManufacturing ERP Competency

Qualifications

High School Diploma or Equivalent1 Year Manufacturing Experience

Full job description

Description

Summary:

The Team Leader lead will be responsible for the personnel and product in their work center(s). They will handle personnel training, quality, safety, and continuous improvement initiatives in their area. Product and personnel status will be measured and reported on to the Production Supervisor. Team Leads are responsible to monitor and manage the completion of shop orders and operations as determined by the part number routing, ensuring operations are complete on time and at or under the allotted labor hours. They actively manage the safety culture, implement refined policies, and ensure their cells are in safe working order. They also review quality data to ensure that manufacturing quality is improving and that the MoM and work instructions are updated to reflect corrective actions.

Minimum Qualifications: (Education, Experience, Knowledge, and Skills):

  • High School Diploma, GED, or Equivalent.

  • 1 year of manufacturing experience.

  • Ability to understand and interpret mechanical and electrical drawings is required.

  • Must have organization and time management skills; this position requires the management of multiple critical tasks concurrently.

  • Ability to efficiently plan and meet project schedule deadlines, while maintaining contingency plans to preserve committed timeline.

  • Must possess an advanced understanding of workflows in production and prioritize work.

  • Capable of recognizing individual strengths and developmental needs within the team; constructs training to encourage proficiency and overall employee productivity within the cell.

  • Possess an advanced competency using ERPs in a manufacturing environment.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Team leaders will be responsible for as many as 15 operators and all shop orders within their department’s work centers.

  • Maintains accurate service records, constructs p reventative maintenance plans, schedules equipment services, while mitigating unnecessary interruptions to production schedules.

  • Accurately maintain compliance of all required documentation and production reporting.

  • Must be the steward of quality: observe machine operation, technician output, identify defects, and deviations from standards. Utilize discrepancy data obtained to troubleshoot and conduct a root cause analysis; provide solutions and training to mitigate noncompliance.

  • Sets the pace of work within cell utilizing IFS routings and data to determine if expectations are met.

  • Review part number routings before beginning work, reporting issues to Production Supervisor.

  • Accurately reports schedule – on time/late/ahead of schedule.

  • Utilize forecast planning to mitigate parts shortages and ensure timely notification is sent to material handlers, preventing interruptions in production.

  • Responsible for keeping manufacturing traveler and Bus BoM/Kanban usage updated and filling in appropriate location upon job completion.

  • Accurately maintain and review worked/hours allocated to jobs, ensure reporting is precise, while preparing for contingency planning to mitigate excessive O&M expenditures.

  • Responsible for team safety and improvement of initiatives.

  • Process change request from ECOs on SO within cell.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

This position will require standing, stooping, bending, and limited lifting of up to 50lbs.

Exposure to weather, extreme heat or cold, noise intensity level, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, wet and/or humid, vibration, proximity to moving mechanical parts.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the position. All employees may have other duties assigned at any time.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.Operating Company: PowerSecure

How this job compares

Set against the 1,883 open Production Supervisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • North Carolina median$76–109K/yr23 salary ranges
  • US median$26–30/hr164 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 91 open Production Supervisor jobs in North Carolina and 1,883 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in North Carolina
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Production Supervisor postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 1,276 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 862 of the 1,883 open Production Supervisor jobs (46%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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