Team Leader, Production (Full-Time | Multiple Locations)

Job Description

Leadership

In the Team Leader Production (TLP) role, you are responsible for managing and ensuring the safety of your production team members, between 15-50 people per shift, and for attaining production and quality goals.

Problem Solving

Oversee areas of improvement throughout the production process. Team Leaders ensure schedules and goals are met through guiding production resources, materials, processes, and equipment.

Process Improvement

Support continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost, and customer service. They are responsible for managing and owning various functions of the business and for creating an engaged and team oriented work environment in order to improve business results.

Additional responsibilities may include :

Monitor production to ensure that quality, productivity, and cost standards are maintained

Provide team member training to ensure that teams are performing job responsibilities effectively and safely

Assist with the supervision of sanitation operations as necessary to promote and maintain a clean and food safe environment

Enforce plant rules, regulations and procedures

Evaluate team member performance and provide guidance for performance improvement

Participate in the support of plant and company safety programs by promoting and maintaining a high-level of awareness and adherence to defined employee safety requirements : lock-out / tag-out, personal protective equipment, confined space entry, etc.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Education :

Bachelors or Associates degree, minimum 4-years of relevant industry / work experience, or supervisory / management experience is required

High School diploma / GED required

Required :

Demonstrated supervisory or leadership experience

Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving and organizational skills

A self-motivated individual that is able to multi-task and lead others

Must be able to regularly lift and / or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and / or move up to 50 pounds

Preferred :

Ability to work various shifts (i.e.. Weekdays, weekends, day, swing, grave) based on the scheduling needs of the production site

Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment is a plus

Working knowledge of plant equipment and safety is a plus

Previous experience in a food-processing is a plus

The physical and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

You may be regularly required to stand, walk, and sit

You may be regularly required to use your hands to handle, feel, reach

You may be regularly required to taste and smell

You may be regulary required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl

You must be able to regularly lift and / or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and / or move up to 50 pounds

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

​ Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, team leaders are regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts

Team members in the plant are frequently exposed to extreme cold; extreme heat and vibration

Team members are occasionally exposed to wet and / or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate