Production Lead

General Production Lead – Direct Hire | Superior Skilled Trades
📍 Location: Hartland, WI
💰 Pay Range: $19-$24
🕒 Shift: Second Shift, Monday–Friday, 2:00 PM–10:00 PM]

Company Overview
Superior Skilled Trades is partnered with a third-generation, family-owned sheet metal fabrication and contract manufacturing business. The company specializes in precision sheet metal fabrication, offering services such as laser cutting, punching, forming, bending, machining, welding, and value-added finishing. They emphasize quality control and precision throughout production and invest in state-of-the-art technology to deliver complex parts on time and to specification.

Position Overview
This is a Direct Hire Opportunity. As a Working General Production Lead, you will oversee daily operations in the Shakeout department, delegating, training, and monitoring employees as they remove laser-cut or turret-punched components by hand. You will ensure work is performed safely, efficiently, and according to company standards while serving as a subject matter expert and providing guidance to team members. This role is ideal for candidates with prior production or fabrication experience who have strong organizational and leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe work environment and uphold departmental housekeeping standards.

• Coordinate daily operations and workflow within the department.

• Consult with Production Manager on production schedules and assignments.

• Identify and report quality issues, providing solutions when possible.

• Serve as the department’s subject matter expert and facilitate employee training.

• Complete and maintain required documentation and production records.

• Provide input for process improvements and help overcome departmental challenges.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• 6–12 months of related production or manufacturing experience preferred, or a combination of education and experience.

• Strong organizational skills and prior experience in manufacturing-based material handling.

• Ability to read, comprehend, and communicate instructions effectively.

• Ability to apply common sense judgment to routine problems and standardized situations.

• Experience as a Lead Material Handler or in a similar production/fabrication environment is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance

• Life and AD&D insurance

• 10 paid holidays

• Tuition reimbursement

• 401(k) with company match

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand for long periods and perform repetitive tasks.

• Regularly lift up to 50 lbs; occasionally lift over 100 lbs.

• Frequent use of hands to handle materials and operate tools.

• Visual ability to perform close-range and detailed inspection work.

• Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, or climb as needed.