Lasting Team Lead

**Job Description** | Job Title: Lasting/Sole Leather Department Lead | Department Name: Manufacturing | Effective Date: 7/16/2026 | | --- | --- | --- | | Reports to (title): Manager, Manufacturing | # of Direct Reports: 15-30 | # Indirect Reports: 0 | | Individual Contributor: Yes XX No | Full Time/Part Time: Full time | # Hours Per Week: 40-55 | | Average Work Schedule: Monday – Friday 6:00 – 4:30; Saturdays When Required | Location: El Paso, TX | **Job Summary:** The Lasting/Sole Leather Department Lead, leads the team in achieving specific goals and objectives aligned with business targets including culture, safety, quality, cost, and delivery. Works collaborate with your peers to instill across the site a positive culture aligned to Lucchese values, consistent policy administration, and a safe work environment. **Scope of job:** The Lasting/Sole Leather Department Lead will lead people and drive production results through ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. The Cutting Department Lead ensures peak performance is maintained for each employee on all lines and meets performance targets including limiting downtime. This position is responsible for overseeing department employees, processes, and procedures of the production area and is accountable for team culture, productivity, quality, employee safety and efficiency of operations. **Duties/Responsibilities:** • Set goals and objectives for department. - Delegate tasks and make sure deadlines are met. • Foster a collaborative environment by focusing on solutions and working constructively with other departments. • Gain a thorough understanding of issues within own department. • Prioritize resolving department issues effectively. • Demonstrate respect for employees, work with other supervisors, leaders and departments. • Collaborate on problem solving and process improvement initiatives. • Ensure processes are not changed without proper authorization and hold team accountable to adhering to standard processes. • Develop, work, and provide a detailed list of department operations; communicate to team, and cross functionally progress. • Must understand department operations to ensure proper process and quality standards, communicate and close gaps with team. • Spend most of time focusing on walking production line throughout day, providing coaching, updates, coaching, and training. - Constantly improve line performance by giving feedback and training to team, goal attainment. - Ensure operator training is completed and sustained for all bootmakers and operators as needed. - Understand and know the short-term as well as long-range goals and targets for production and how they tie to the daily/weekly/monthly production plan. Communicate this to the team to drive engagement for goal attainment. - Continual monitoring and updating of Standard Operating Procedures as needed. - Plan and execute effective line startups, ensure cleaning on all equipment is maintained, plan new product runs effectively. - Ensure daily shut-down procedures are communicated and completed. - Lead meetings with employees at the end/beginning of a shift (debrief) communicating needed information for the business flow. Provide praise and recognition for jobs well done and provide support for areas needing improvement. - Generate ideas to improve efficiency on the lines or relevant topics. - Communicate clearly with the team what is expected and monitor performance and address deficiencies through coaching and positive motivation and/or formal disciplinary action, if required. - Reinforcing all company policies, Standard Operating Procedures, and safety rules and procedures. Advise management of discrepancies. - Develop and maintain a strong teamwork environment. - Perform other duties as assigned. **Required Skills/Abilities:** - Ability to lead team(s) of people to ensure production goals, quality, and safety metrics are met. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Prefered bi…