Position Overview:
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:

AZ Tolleson

Job Type:

Production Operations

Job Posting Title:

Packaging Team Lead Nights

Job Description:

Shift - 6pm, 6:30am

Rate - $28.70

Shift differential - $1.00

Responsibilities:

Lead 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, and trains. 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 leadership 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 leadership 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.
• 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 and encourages safe work performance
• Exudes a high degree of inter-personal skills and can work well with everyone
• Assure fair and consistent application of policies, procedures, and discipline
• Follows and enforces standards for food safety and food quality production reflected in SQF as well as the regulations of major vendors and governmental agencies such as OSHA, FDA and EPA and assures associates are consistently trained in these standards and comply with all requirements

Qualifications/Education/Experience/Skills:

• At least 3 years of production manufacturing experience preferred, food manufacturing preferred
• Working knowledge of production equipment and systems
• Working knowledge of food safety and food quality standards and regulations such as SQF or BRC and environmental and safety regulations preferred
• Competency in English language (read, write, speak); excellent written, oral, and listening skills.
• Requires basic mathematical skills to be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide combined with analytical skills used to track and trend data and be able to use that data to guide decisions and communications with associates
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional teams
• Ability to effectively present information to top management
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear