Team Leader, Production (Full-Time | Multiple Locations)

Title: Team Leader, Production (Full-Time | Multiple Locations)

               

Location: Twin Falls, ID

               

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 Production opportunity develops future leaders here at Lamb Weston. This is a supervisor role where you will help your production team reach target goals, manage day-to-day operations, and will be responsible for identifying areas of improvement in the manufacturing process.

Our Team Leaders not only receive extensive leadership and functional training, but they are also quickly and frequently promoted throughout Lamb Weston.

When you choose a career with us, every day is Fry-day!

Job Description

Leadership

In the Team Leader Production (TLP) role, you are responsible for managing and ensuring the safety of your production team members, between 15-50 people per shift, and for attaining production and quality goals.

Problem Solving

Oversee areas of improvement throughout the production process. Team Leaders ensure schedules and goals are met through guiding production resources, materials, processes, and equipment.

Process Improvement

Support continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost, and customer service. They are responsible for managing and owning various functions of the business and for creating an engaged and team oriented work environment in order to improve business results.

Additional responsibilities may include:

• Monitor production to ensure that quality, productivity, and cost standards are maintained

• Provide team member training to ensure that teams are performing job responsibilities effectively and safely

• Assist with the supervision of sanitation operations as necessary to promote and maintain a clean and food safe environment

• Enforce plant rules, regulations and procedures

• Evaluate team member performance and provide guidance for performance improvement

• Participate in the support of plant and company safety programs by promoting and maintaining a high-level of awareness and adherence to defined employee safety requirements: lock-out/tag-out, personal protective equipment, confined space entry, etc.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelors or Associates degree, minimum 4-years of relevant industry/work experience, or supervisory/management experience is required

• High School diploma/GED required

Required:

• Demonstrated supervisory or leadership experience

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving and organizational skills

• A self-motivated individual that is able to multi-task and lead others

• Must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Preferred:

• Ability to work various shifts (i.e.. Weekdays, weekends, day, swing, grave) based on the scheduling needs of the production site

• Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment is a plus

• Working knowledge of plant equipment and safety is a plus

• Previous experience in a food-processing is a plus

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