Team Leader Maintenance - Electrical

Title: Team Leader Maintenance - Electrical

               

Location: Pasco, WA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

The Team Leader Maintenance - Electrical role will oversee department safety, personnel, installation, operation, repair, overhaul and general maintenance activities for the Electrical and Sorter Ladre Specialist work groups. Provides supervision of equipment maintenance in assigned areas from the freezing tunnel exit to and including the Auto Truck Loading system. This includes but is not limited to shakers, graders, sorters, conveyors, scales, case weighing, packaging, metal detectors, coders, printers, case settlers, case sealers, robots, tote dumpers, palletizing, and auto truck loading equipment in order to assure the safe, optimal, uninterrupted packaging and shipping of quality potato products within budgeted costs.

Works closely with the Line Structure Team and Planners to properly prioritize planned work that attacks and eliminates deficiencies in a manner that safely improves and sustains equipment reliability to maximize plant production and uptime

Job Description

KEY SUPERVISORY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other projects/duties as assigned or needed.

• Maintains and promotes safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs. Assures employees are holding shift safety huddles, performing safety audits, and participating in plant safety programs. Setting expectations for housekeeping and sanitation in the shop and on the job site and following up to validate compliance.
• Assures a safe work place for all employees by developing and supervising the safe work habits of subordinates.
• Assures compliance with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations, as well as Lamb Weston policies and procedures.
• Interviewing, selecting, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; coaching, rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Assures a favorable labor climate by consistent and fair supervision and application of the labor agreement.
• Assures that team members execute job assignments at a level that at a minimum meets the expectations of their current job classification (3rd, 2nd, 1st, Tech, etc.). Documents coaching of validated deficiencies.
• Analyzes the mechanical and operational deficiencies of Process equipment and systems through personal observations, maintenance programs and Line Team and operator feedback. Utilizes observations and feedback to plan for and take corrective actions to eliminate the root causes of the deficiencies.
• Walks the floor to review work or equipment in action. Review work plan for variances and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop sustainable Reliability Improvement Plan for area of responsibility.
• Maintains a good working relationship with Contractors and Vendors to sustain equipment reliability and keep abreast of equipment obsolescence and new technology. Maintain Vendor contact for sourcing and ordering materials and supplies.
• Provide guidance and management to Contractors and Vendors on site.
• Assures the efficient and reliable day-to-day operation of all designated department equipment and systems by oversight of the maintenance, overhaul and the repair programs.

• Provide guidance and management on required inventory levels for