Industrial Sewing Team Lead

COMPANY SUMMARY

HexArmor® is a leader in developing some of the most advanced PPE solutions for your hands, eyes, and body. At HexArmor®, we believe safety is not a luxury – it’s a necessity. Since day one, we have worked together with our customers to deliver innovative and effective PPE solutions to keep workers safe, and we have done so, breaking new ground in cut, puncture, needle, and abrasion resistance, all without sacrificing dexterity.

JOB SUMMARY

The Industrial Sewing Team Lead oversees a team of sewing machine operators, ensuring efficient and high-quality production of sewn products. This role involves coordinating daily operations, training team members, and maintaining a safe and productive work environment. Additionally, the Team Lead operates machinery to guide products or product parts under machine needles and presser foot pedals, proficiently using several types of sewing machines to construct complete products. Familiarity with seam and stitch types is essential, along with the ability to train supervisors and peers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan and Organize Tasks: Ensure all team members have a clearly defined next task, especially when they are close to finishing current work.
• Train new operators on sewing techniques, machine operation, and safety protocols, ensuring all team members meet quality standards.
• Monitor workflow, adjust schedules to optimize efficiency, and report performance metrics and quality issues to management.
• Inspect finished products for quality and adherence to specifications; address any quality issues with the team and implement corrective actions.
• Serve as backup operator for custom product orders.
• Promote a safe working environment by enforcing safety policies and practices; conduct regular safety training sessions.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and collaborate with management to implement best practices, create standard operating procedures (SOPs) for processes in place.
• Proficiently perform a combination of multiple medium sewing steps or difficult sewing step with 80% or higher proficiency (10 or more) in two or more product lines, with the ability to set up a new product line.
• Operate heavy duty sewing equipment single or double needle surging, union special, basic & complicated automated and/or bar tacking machines to perform sewing steps to join, reinforce or decorate material or articles, such as labels, Velcro, and webbing.

QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or equivalent; additional training in sewing or textile production preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience in industrial sewing, required
• 1 year(s) in a supervisory or leadership role, preferred.
• Bilingual (Spanish), preferred.
• Proficient in operating various types of industrial sewing machines; knowledge of fabric types and sewing techniques.
• Strong leadership and team-building skills, with the ability to motivate and develop team members.

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages and volume.
• Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing in all units of measure.
• Must be able to use a tape measure to measure products pieces.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

** Employment offers are contingent upon an E-Verify check and the successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen.