Manufacturing Team Leader

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), headquartered in Sterling Heights, Michigan, is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. GDLS provides a full spectrum of land and amphibious combat systems, subsystems, and components worldwide. The company designs and builds armored vehicles and subsystems for the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and international customers, and is the defense industry's largest supplier of armored military vehicles.Description of Work: *Lead, train, coach, and develop personnel to ensure capabilities to meet performance requirements for production and delivery including: quality assurance disciplines and techniques, manufacturing processes, configuration control, maintenance of IPE/OPE, to ensure continuous improvement in processes and products. *Work as an integrated member of the team to perform material handling, maintenance sub-assembly, assembly, system integration and testing operations to assure completion of required production requirements. * Create an atomsphere that fosters quality and continuous improvement within the work unit. * Qualify team personnel to perform work requirements. * Determine team requirements and intiate action to assure the team acquires required resources. * Interface with internal and external departments, customers, and suppliers. * Identify performance measurements, establish goals and targets, and assist in the development of direct and indirect budgets. Participate as a key member of the ISO 9002 process team. * Act as a leader for all producibility, design form manufacturing and activities related to ensuring smooth, effcient and transparent transition for new products from design to production. * Assist in the performance of project, program and product management tasks. * Assist in coordinating new program build planning, integration and start up activities to include proposal preparation. * Analyze and assist in the preparation of process and quality assurance requirements to include tooling, fixturing, and work instructions. *Perform first echelon supervisory functions for the team including assignment of work, timecard approval, work scheduling, material ordering, and performance repporting. * Assist in preparing Engineering Change Proposals (ECP's) to resolve problems as a result of production problems, engineering problem reports, or material problem reports. Job Requirements: * Bachelor Degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical/Industrial Engineering or related technical discipline prefered. * Six to nine years of related experience in manufacting environment. * Must be proficient on personal computers and thorough knowledge of computer software within the MSOffice Suite (Word, Excel, etc.) and interfacing applications, including word processing, and spreadsheet construction. *Occasional extended work schedules and travel may be necessary. * Must have good written and verbal communication skills. * Must have good interpersonal skills. * Must have good problem solving capabilities. * Must be able to obtain security clearance.Required Education: BASubmit Your Resume Online NowGeneral Dynamics Land Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer Job Title:   Manufacturing Team Leader Location:   Anniston Job Category:   Manufacturing/Production/Operations Requisition Number:   ANN-LE-08-7294 Career Level:   Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)