Production Team Lead - Handcrafted Manufacturing

Sola Wood FlowersMonterrey, Nuevo LeónOn-sitePart-timeSenior, 5–8 yearsListed 1 week ago

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About this role

Production Team Lead - Handcrafted Manufacturing (Monterrey)

Somewhere in the US right now, a bride is counting days. Her flowers are made by hand - one stem at a time - on our production floor in Monterrey. Her wedding date does not move. Neither does ours.

We make sola wood flowers: every petal shaped, dyed, and assembled by a person, not a machine. Our Monterrey operation is about 100 people across two flows - repeatable catalog production and one-of-a-kind custom wedding builds. We are growing fast, and we need a Team Lead who can hold quality and pace on a hand-assembly line while developing the people on it.

The job, honestly

You lead a team on the floor. You are the person who makes today's number happen: setting up the shift, balancing the line, unblocking stations, checking first-pass quality, and keeping wedding-dated orders protected no matter what else goes wrong that day.

You also build people. In a year, the best people on your team should be running shifts without you - that is how we measure you, and how you grow here.

We are a 100-person company, not a giant plant. Some weeks that means you help test a packaging change, onboard a hiring class, or chase a supplier issue. If "not my department" is in your vocabulary, you will hate it here. If you want to learn how a whole business runs, you will love it.

How we work

- Data wins arguments. Opinions do not. We track output, quality, and cost per unit daily.

- No work is beneath anyone. If the pallet needs moving, we move the pallet.

- Problems are treasure. Surface a bad number and you get help fixing it; hide one and we have a real problem.

- We run on EOS / Traction with OKRs, and your targets are written down with you before you start.

What you need

- 2+ years leading a team in manufacturing, hand-assembly, kitting, packaging, or fulfillment

- Hands-on experience with line balancing, hourly boards, 5S, kaizen, or similar - done it, not just studied it

- Fluent English, spoken and written - you will be on daily calls with the US team. This one is firm.

- Working comfort in ERP/WMS systems and Excel or Google Sheets

- On-site daily in Monterrey (Finsa Guadalupe)

- References you are happy for us to call

Strongly preferred: made-to-order or handcrafted production (decor, furniture, apparel, promotional goods, maquila assembly). DTC/eCommerce exposure is a plus.

What you get

- A team you own and a visible path to Supervisor and beyond

- Pre-defined targets and a transparent compensation philosophy

- Direct exposure to company leadership in a business scaling toward $100M

- No politics, no busywork, no decks nobody reads

How hiring works

Short intro interview, then a practical deep-dive on how you lead a line. We hire in 8 to 10 days on average. Apply now - you will hear back this week.