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Manufacturing Team Lead (KHMS)

Kraft Heinz
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Jun 2026

About the role

Job Description

Benefits & Compensation Overview:

  • Hourly Rate: $32.11

  • Union position

  • Reports into Production Department Process Owner

  • Medical, Dental, & Vision

  • (HRA) Health Reimbursement Account or (HSA) Health Savings Account

  • Additional perks:  Pet Insurance, (EAP) Employee Assistance Program, Supplemental life insurance, etc.

Work Schedule:

May work overtime as required, including weekends and holidays.

  • Third shift – 9:30AM-6:00AM

  • Shift premium - $2.00

Plant Overview:

  • Over 300 employees

  • Holland Plant has been around since 1897

  • Products produced: sweet relish, Grey Poupon mustard, yellow mustard, vinegar, pickle variations, BBQ sauce

  • Union Facility – Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU)

Responsibilities & Duties:

  • Provide leadership in operations assessing, coaching, or teaching team members on area processes, procedures, or work instructions

  • Act as a SME, providing guidance to ensure their process areas are not constrained due to the lack of capability or knowledge

  • Facilitates communication and collaboration between operations and support departments

  • Collaborates with operators and support functions to develop and execute plans to win each shift

Essential Responsibilities

  • Leadership in Operations

  • Develops strong coaching skills to provide effective feedback for plant team members in area of expertise

  • Provides mentorship and guidance for operator development and training

  • Provide guidance for operator troubleshooting

  • SME

  • Champions, leads, and executes equipment, reliability, or process improvement projects

  • Provides process specific guidance and expertise to production and support teams

  • Leads production team to develop and execute a plan to win the shift

  • Facilitates Communication

  • Reports out at relevant meetings KPI’s

  • Updates relevant KPIs and metrics to ensure effective and efficient communication of process areas activities and outcomes

  • Partners with site leadership teams to ensure key stakeholders are aware of critical equipment or process failures

  • Win the Shift

  • Facilitates the line loss analysis (waste elimination and yield improvement) and line throughput improvement plans (Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) current/future state)

  • Analyze daily and shift line data to identify and prioritize loss elimination opportunities

  • Spends time on the floor to gather information on stops, centerlines and changeovers over the past 24 hours

  • Investigates initial root cause of top stops utilizing KHMS tools

  • Develop plan for the shift for ownership areas

  • Lead level 1 meetings

  • Participate in level 2 and Daily Production Meeting (DPM)

  • Discuss top stops, root causes and establish countermeasures in a plan to win the shift

  • Manage DMS completion and compliance and develop action plan for any outages

Additional Responsibilities

  • Accountable for meeting KHMS requirements as outlined in Digital Coach Works with Process Owner, CI Lead and Maintenance Lead to address losses

  • Ensure all safety and quality guidelines are being followed Maintain legible, neat and accurate records and reports Works with TRIO to identify improvement projects for process area

  • Drives breakthrough results in planned and unplanned downtime reduction Leads/supports RCFA process as assigned

  • Support DMS training and coaching Coaches, trains, and develops team by serving as process area coach and resource Actively participates in KHMS structured processes and DPM according to standard

  • Serve as leader or participant on assigned teams and support team decisions as needed Create and/or track OEE performance reports for assigned area

  • Request support from leadership and support groups to remove barriers Organize planned stops

  • Conduct coaching in ownership areas for root cause analysis of process failures and/or break downs and defect handing process

  • May be required to work in different business units and other shifts to expand business knowledge

  • Utilize the SAP system for entering notifications and tracking production requirements

  • Execute daily skills using email, word processing and spreadsheet managemen

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