Manufacturing Operations Team Leader - 3rd shift

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Job Number #169040 - Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

An Operations Team Leader serves as the primary support for the implementation, development and coaching of the Operation Technicians and Operation team in an effective, value driven, performance based environment. This position will also have the responsibility for leading the Operation team to adhere to FP&R practices and principles to achieve key performance indicators, daily performance goals, coordinate activity between shifts and departments and keep the plant informed about Operations performance on a regular basis. The Operation Team Leader will coordinate the activity of Operation and Maintenance team members, gather data, identify daily strategies that will maximize quality and productivity; and facilitate troubleshooting production issues.

 

Core Responsibilities:

 

• Directs and coordinates the activities of Operation Technicians engaged in the production to increase innovation, technical expertise, analysis, and problem solving skills

• Incorporate Factory Performance & Reliability, good manufacturing practices, Visual Workplace, Lean Manufacturing and Reliability engineering in continuous improvement planning and systems.

• Establish and maintain effective Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measurement for the plant, tracking and reporting tools, and establishes corrective action for continuous improvement.

• Plans and establishes work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.

• Confers with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.

• Responsible for time management and data entry into eTime for vacation, PTO, floating holiday, Voluntary Time Off, overtime and attendance.

• Inspects materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.

• Conducts or coordinates Technician training in equipment operations, GMPs, Quality, sanitation, maintenance, productivity or work and safety procedures, or assign employee training to experienced workers.

• Interprets specifications, blueprints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.

• Empower teams by way of training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, appraisals and delegation, to ensure the development of people, skills, teams and organizational capabilities.

• Responsible for temporary employee management including: safety policies, GMPs, equipment training, scheduling, and time card approval process

• Support implementation of Quality Assurance and Food Safety initiatives

• Ensure personnel adhere to Hill’s policies, safety standards, and Good Manufacturing Practices, including Quality Assurance and Food Safety

 

 

Experience:

 

• Bachelor´s degree.

• 2+ years experience in manufacturing  

• 2+ years experience in performance analysis and reporting including Statistical Process Control

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years supervisory experience

• Supervisory experience of production and process equipment, preferably in a processing industry such as food, chemicals or pharmaceuticals 

• Food Related Production Experience

• Knowledge of SAP systems

 

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $67,600.00 - $93,000.00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for