Lead Quality Technician at Jabil Inc. in Mebane, North Carolina

Job Description:

At Jabil, we empower the brands who empower the world – it’s our reason for being and the guiding force that’s driving us to become the most technologically advanced manufacturing solutions provider on the planet.  Whether we’re serving one of the world’s biggest and best known brands or the coolest tech startups, our resolve never wavers. We share common desires with these brands: to make the world a better, safer and cleaner place.

• Lead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of the operations shift team (including key support department team members) to meet targets for product quality, customer delivery and cost whilst ensuring a safe and cGMP compliant work environment at all times.


• Deploy, promote and lead the use of lean tools within the team to drive continuous improvement and process reliability.


• Lead the team in achieving a compliant culture with respect to EHS, cGMP, inventory control and Quality System requirements.


• Promote Jabil’s values and behaviors. 


• Lead shift daily operations meetings reviewing production data, machines running status, escalations and corrective action to ensure shift targets are achieved.


• Ensure regular communication with team through visual management systems.


• Coordinate operator training in order to perform assigned tasks across production cells.


• Responsible for ensuring the immediate team is trained in their roles and to support the development of standard work, documentation, training, and WI activities where appropriate.


• Create a high performing flexible team which achieves excellent results through coaching / mentoring & effective performance management.


• Plan all people, material and machine resources to support weekly production schedules.


• Ensure all injection molding, tool and assembly changeover activities are completed as scheduled along with appropriate line clearance procedures to meet cGMP compliance.


• Ensure that batches are manufactured within the validated set up at all times and the quality team are provided with samples for outgoing testing throughout the batch.


• Lead area 5S program to ensure that housekeeping, cGMP and safety issues are resolved in a timely and systematic manner thus meeting all company safety, environmental and quality initiatives.


• Facilitate, and ensure where appropriate, that equipment and area cleaning, preventative maintenance, calibration schedules, inventory controls and bar-coding systems are adhered to as per cGMP requirements.


• Implement company policies.


• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Oversee production processes and team members


• Adjust manufacturing results for manufacturing in-process


• Work as shift team leader


• Ensure that high quality manufacturing standards are maintained


• Provide work direction for team members in a production environment


• Coordinate training for team members


• Facilitate training for team members


• Coordinating daily manufacturing floor activities


• Appraise performance of team members


• Develop team members through cross training


• Provide leadership role for all team members within production cell


• Assign work to meet daily manufacturing requirements


• Verify that the team members are following standard work


• Prepare the production floor for daily production


• Function as a manufacturing lead for packaging


• Identifying training needs for team members


• Oversee daily workload of evening production team members


• Assigning work-direction to team members


• Ensure that team meets daily and monthly production goals


• Assist in training manufacturing process to other associates

Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.