Team Lead (Boardman, OR)

Production Lead

Come join the Tillamook Team where our philosophy is “Do Right By Every Bite.”  As an independent farmer-owned cooperative, we have been guided by good, honest values since 1909. We believe in putting quality over profit, natural over artificial, and that hard work can never be outsmarted. We’re taking a stand for real food, because everyone deserves better.

We invite members of all diverse communities to join our workforce. At Tillamook, we believe that inclusion and diversity are central to our cultural strategy. In order to achieve our growth ambition and compete and win in the marketplace, we believe we make better decisions and build stronger teams when we invite and rely on diverse perspectives, thoughts, backgrounds and cultures into our work and to fuel our innovation and growth. To us this means creating a climate of inclusion where all employees feel valued and a sense of belonging.  We believe this will make us a better consumer brand and employer.

About you:

What does real food mean to you? Is your favorite dish a cheesy casserole? Perhaps a decadent and indulgent ice cream? Either way, your identification with food is important to us. People who fit well here at Tillamook have a commitment to quality in everything they do. Our team members understand our vision, contribute to our mission, thrive on innovative thinking, hard work and good, honest values.

About us: 

Our team members understand our vision, contribute to our mission, thrive on innovative thinking, hard work and good, honest values. We live by these shared values: We are Good Stewards, We believe in Uncompromising Quality, We work as One Team, We Play to Win, and We Genuinely Care for each other.  

What you will do:

The Production Lead is responsible for keeping the production and milk receiving areas in a safe, sanitary and efficient work order.

Here’s a day in the life: 

• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying Complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Dairy Science – Understands the components of milk, starter bacteria, and other ingredients, and the processing of making dairy products to a specification
• Statistical Process Control – Understands basic statistics and their application in understanding a process and how it is responding to correction
• Physics – Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships
• Systems Evaluation – Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system
• Judgment and decision Making – Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
• Innovation – Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems
• Equipment maintenance – Performing basic routine maintenance on equipment and determine when other maintenance is need
• Mechanical – Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance
• Critical Thinking – Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Troubleshooting – Determining causes of operating errors deciding what to do about it
• Operation and Control – Controlling oper