Team Leader

Job Overview

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive hourly pay and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and fun workplace environment. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Team Leader to join our team located in Jacksonville, IL. 

Responsibilities

Your Role: 

The Team Leader provides overall coordination of daily operations to ensure safe, efficient operations at standard output rates. Makes daily decisions to meet department objectives; focuses on resource allocation, staffing and conflict resolution.  Functions as communication link between management, R2 (where applicable) and the work team; coaches and counsels team members; focuses team on key activities and assignments.  Provides follow up on team activities and assignments; communicates and coordinates with other teams and support resources; address team members’ operator capabilities.

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

• Team Leaders are responsible for the leadership and development of associates to achieve departmental and plant objectives.
• Team Leaders will involve associates assigned to other work duties for effective and efficient operation of the work team.
• Team Leaders will have overall responsibility for the performance of the group and will hold associates accountable for their area of responsibility.
• Team Leaders will be responsible for coaching/counseling of associates as needed.
• The Team Leader will be responsible for daily operations. Responsibilities include coordinating daily activities of the group to meet operational targets; coordinating associate vacation, overtime and temporary labor to meet staffing objectives; Time and Attendance; SAP, and all other administrative needs.
• Team leaders ensure that team members are following the Standard Work Procedures.
• Team Leaders lead by example and follow all safety rules and procedures.  Support all safety efforts in meeting safety goals and maintaining a safe work environment. Encourage and enforce that work team members adhere to safe work practices/procedures, and plant/department safety rules.  Report all accidents and near misses.  Support safety coordinator efforts in meeting safety goals and maintaining a safe work environment.  Support TAZA sampling and action planning to ensure goals are met. 
• Team Leaders must make decisions regarding quality decisions with input from OSSA’s, R2’s, Supervisor and/or Unit Manager.  Also responsible for making decisions to hold unresolved quality issues for further analysis. Team Leaders must ensure all associates in their area of responsibility are following the department Quality Plant.
• Team Leaders direct team efforts to achieve production specific and plant wide goals.  Ensure downtime is minimized through effective management of available material and labor resources, as well as setting maintenance priorities.  Coordinate with other team members to achieve maximum department productivity. Oversee the training of operators in their area of responsibility and assist the Supervisor with Temp to Hire and Pay for Skill programs.
• Team Leaders can make emergency changes to the production schedule and to staffing levels (such as calling in technical resources) to balance customer and plant demands.  They must communicate changes to all affected groups.
• Team Leaders are responsible for providing coaching and counseling.  Team Leaders will also have responsibility for documenting behavioral or policy infractions and, if necessary, sending employees home pending additional investigation. All corrective actions will be coordinated with the Supervisor, Unit Manager, and Human Resources.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 35 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 32 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus; particularly while using a computer.  Frequent typing is required.

You will love it here if…

• You put safety first, always
• You listen, learn, and evolve