Assembly Lead - Technician

Job Number: 9787

External Description:

About Carrier:

Carrier, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure the safe transport of food, life-saving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.

Key Responsibilities:    

• Monitor, assist, and improve all aspects of Safety, Quality, Productivity, Delivery, and Cost.     
• Ensure Safety throughout the department.
• Eliminate, prevent, countermeasure all quality issues.
• Meet and exceed the daily productivity issues.
• Initiate improvement actions to reduce the department spending.
• Play a key role in all other departmental metrics.
• Encourage good attendance and to be an attendance role model by being at work each working day and always being on time.
• Drive employees to get excited about work and use reinforcing feedback methods in order to encourage good work habits.
• Explain why and impress upon the team a sense of urgency to reach the team goals and to get things done.
• The Lead Tech will have thorough knowledge of all of the departmental operations and the ability to demonstrate process proficiency. The Team Lead will be able to provide immediate process or assembly back up for any absenteeism.
• The Lead Tech will meet with his/her cross-shift counterparts on a daily basis at the start and the end of the shift.  The Team Lead coordinates daily work assignments and will hold weekly stand up meetings to in order to review the previous weeks' metric results and to receive any CI suggestions or concerns.
• Effective Communications--The Lead will communicate daily with other shifts and Team Lead counterparts regarding Quality, Workload capacity, Safety, Staffing problems, CI issues, and machine or component problems.
• Solve problems on an ongoing basis
• Coordinate Quality control activities, initiate and implement Work Standards, specifications and characteristics of the department processes to ensure that quality is built into each of the production processes.
• Encourage the use of CI Tools and methods that will properly solve problems.
• The Lead Tech will provide new employee orientation and new employee introductions.
• The Lead Tech will communicate with all of the team members on a daily basis.
• The Lead Tech will search for constant improvement and seek out to eliminate waste.
• The Lead Tech coordinates on-the-job-training. Lead must be multifunctional workers with the ability to perform all of the operations cross functionally in the department.
• The Lead Tech and team members will ensure that equipment and machines are always in safe and good working condition.

Required Qualifications:

• High school diploma required
• 2+ years of assembly or warehouse experience
• 1+ year length of service with Carrier
• 1+ year of experience using Microsoft Office suite

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Willing to work overtime as needed
• Knowledgeable of multiple lines, a plus
• Work history includes teamwork, versatility and flexibility
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate teams
• Proven problem-solving experiences
• Ability to work well with others as well as independently
• Strong decision-making skills, and proven leadership skills
• Demonstrates a collaborative communication style
• Drives for results
• Makes decisions, solves issues
• Promotes and champion change
• Pursues personal development

Benefits:

Employees are eligible for benefits, including:

• Health Care benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; wellness incentives
• Retirement benefits
• Time Off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty; military leave; purchased vacation 
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability 
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment 
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Healthcare Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account 
• Tuition Assistance 

To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here: Work With Us | Carrier Corporate  The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.  

Pay Range:

The hourly rate for this position is between $24.00 - $48.00 per hour.  Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate.

Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days from Job Posting Date. 

Job Posting Date: 02/25/26

Job Number: 30200068

Community / Marketing Title: Assembly Lead - Technician

Location_formattedLocationLong: North Carolina, US