Production Team Lead

Leads team members to identify, manage, and execute the plants process improvement opportunities. Manages production staff to attain production and quality goals. Identifies problems or bottlenecks in production processes and resolves issues. Ensures production resources including materials, equipment and human resources are available as needed to maintain production schedules. Supports continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost and customer service. Responsible for managing and owning various functions of the business and creating an engaged and team oriented work force in order to improve business results. Preferred 3 years related experience.

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

MO Excelsior Springs

Job Type:

Production Group

Job Posting Title:

Production Team Lead

Job Description:

Schedule: 2-2-3 Schedule

Hours: 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 a.m.

Work Location: 1000 Italian Way, Excelsior Springs, MO 64024

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with match, STD/LTD/AD&D/Life, HSA, FSA, EAP, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Identity and Fraud Protection Plan, Legal, and Critical Illness.

Salary, based on experience and other qualifications: $31.55 per hour, plus $1.00 shift differential.

Responsibilities: 

Supervises all production operations, conduct of food safety, and quality procedures of the plant to assure a safe, efficient, productive and positive work environment for the assigned shift.  This person consistently directs, coaches, trains and gives performance feedback to the associates on the line. All procedures and practices used are grounded in standards, regulations and laws addressing occupational safety (OSHA) and food safety and food quality (FDA) in addition to environmental safety (EPA) in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). 

  

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provide shift-focused supervision to the production associates  

• Communicate routinely with a professional manner with associates to assure that all understand the day’s production schedule, key issues, and challenges  

• Provide supervision to the production of products during their shift assuring the implementation and monitoring of good manufacturing practices, quality and safety standards, QA monitoring and continuous improvement  

• Participate in overseeing maintenance, sanitation, equipment, and organization on each shift for the plant  

• Identifies problems or bottlenecks in production processes and resolves issues  

• Assure daily documentation, analysis and trending of data regarding production, waste, maintenance issues, safety issues, employee issues and any other incidents.  Assure the implementation of all identified food quality and food safety standards, laws, good manufacturing practices, training and continuous improvement  

• Ensures production resources including materials, equipment, and people resources are available as needed to maintain production schedules.  

•  Identify and document the skills, performance opportunities, learning needs, time and attendance of each production associate and teaches routinely  

• Assure all associates are consistently trained in all required standards and expectations, including temporary employees  

• Keep work environment clean, safe and positive  

• Manage production performance against plant goals in safety, quality, CPS, cost, customer service and culture  

• Manage and supervise all OSHA compliance training for production employees, including temporary employees  

• Work with the management team to develop safe work practices and implement them for effective safety that result in zero recordable and lost time accidents