Team Leader

Position Summary:

The Team Leader is responsible for the coordination and direction of the day-to-day processing activities of their assigned team.  This position provides direction and guidance with operational processes and ensures that safety, production, and quality compliance and procedures are sustained.  Accountable for effective communications between management and team to maximize operations.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Understands the plant’s equipment and participates in troubleshooting resolutions to minimize equipment and plant downtime, materials loss and spills. Reviews daily schedule and discusses with Operations Supervisor plans to prioritize daily work schedule to meet customer requirements. 

2. Responsible for understanding the plant’s daily scheduling.  Engages team members with goals to support the production numbers, and within the budget guidelines.

3. Demonstrates the OSC values and safety practices.  Ensures the safety of employees working on the team through adherence to plant safety requirements, programs, and G.M.P. practices.  Coaches team members when unsafe practices/behaviors are recognized.  Must be able to become forklift ‘train the trainer.’

4. In Operations Supervisor’s absence:  Conduct incident reporting for injuries as well as aiding in setting up ITS Remote Rehab if needed.

5. Provides leadership to team employee relations and policies.  Explains and mentors' operational knowledge, SOP & SSOP of plant’s product flow. 

6. Solicits opinions of co-workers on effectiveness of the Receiving Stations department operation and implements viable recommendation(s).

7. Representative and point of contact for quality compliance.   Adheres and educates team members on OSC’s quality operating guidelines (i.e. HACCP, SSOP’s, Safe Food Handling, GMP’s, and good housekeeping practices. Helps conduct monthly GMP audits.

8. Reviews and signs off on paperwork daily.

9. May performs SAP shipping, receiving and production activities. 

10. Track freezer inventory and reconcile discrepancies.   

11. Supports night shift operations during Harvest and HVF productions runs.   

Decision-Making Authority/Accountability Level:

This position requires follow-through directions issued by management in regard to production, quality and safety issues in line with management’s established guidelines on priorities, methods, and procedures.  Ability to work out minor performance problems with team members involved; refers problems involving more serious performance issues to manager for handling. 

Minimum Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Requirements:

Effective organizational, planning and leadership skills, and business acumen; and possess reading, writing, math and communication skills.    Good interpersonal skills associated with the need to work constructively in a team environment, arrive both timely, and consistently at work; assume responsibility and work shifts as required. Proficient computer skills and ability to manually operate equipment and troubleshoot.  Must be able to acquire OSC forklift certification.  Must be willing to work night shifts as needed. 

Necessary Activities:

Computer use required at least   15% of time.

Telephone use required at least   5% of time.

Physical and Environmental Requirements:

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.   Inability to meet one or more of these specifications will not automatically disqualify a candidate from the position; however, upon request for reasonable accommodation, the company may be able to adjust or excuse one of these requirements, depending on the requirement, essential functions to which it relates and the proposed accommodations.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, handle, or feel and reach; push and pull with hands, arms.  The employee is occasionally required to walk, crouch and knee, crawl or climb.  The employee must occasionally lift up to 50 lbs.  Specific vision abilities of this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical/electrical parts and pressurized equipment, and extr