Shadow Group Leader-Internship

Our Client, a Automotive Manufacturing company, is looking for a Shadow Group Leader-Internship for their Bowling Green, KY/Hybrid location.
 
Responsibilities:

• Develops and maintains a system for managing office routine
• Assists in planning, conducting and evaluating projects
• Monitors programs and projects
• Frequent contact with others outside the work group
• Maintains technical expertise and procedural knowledge
• Keeps supervision advised of work in process
• Assumes operational assignments as a working member
• Assists in the coordination of special or unusual projects
• Shadow a Group Leader to learn day-to-day leadership activities within the Paint and Body Shops
• Support safety initiatives, including observing job hazard analyses, participating in safety walks, and reinforcing safe work behaviors
• Assist with quality call response, learning how to identify issues, contain defects, and support root cause and corrective actions
• Observe and support throughput management, including monitoring production flow, addressing constraints, and escalating issues appropriately
• Learn manpower management, including staffing adjustments, task assignments, job rotations, and coordination with maintenance and support teams
• Attend shift meetings, production reviews, and team huddles to understand escalation paths and decision-making expectations
• Assist with basic data tracking and reporting related to safety, quality, delivery, and productivity
• Progressively take on increased responsibility, with the expectation of eventually running the production line independently under defined standard work and leadership expectations
• Support continuous improvement activities and standard work adherence within assigned areas
• Demonstrate professionalism, accountability, and teamwork while interacting with hourly operators, skilled trades, engineers, and salaried leadership
• Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects Business Group – 2 departments (paint and body), the team consists of supervisors and group leaders and they manage a team of hourly people, this person will be responsible for managing throughput, safety, quality through these areas, they will train with one of the group leaders or a current hourly employee, they have some projects coming up and want these contractors to help run a group while other people are running these projects, these contractors will not actually be helping with the projects
• These openings are both in the paint department
• Managing the day-to-day quality and throughput issues
• Team structure – ranges from 6-30 people 

• No preference on what degree area they are obtaining
• Experience with excel, outlook, Microsoft office
• They will get a lot of training on the job
• Worked on cars and problem solved, find the true root cause of the issue
• Soft skills – people skills, work with a variety of people, good communicator
• Problem solving skills
• People skills
• Experience with excel, outlook, Microsoft office

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities

 
ICONMA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive considerationfor employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law.