Lead Production 1st Shift

About the company

Welcome to CTI Foods, where quality, service, and people are at the heart of everything we do. We are a leading food manufacturing company, dedicated to providing our customers with the best possible products and our employees with a rewarding career. At CTI, we passionately believe that people are our #1 ingredient. We provide a positive and supportive work environment, opportunities for growth and advancement, and a competitive compensation package. We value our employees' contributions and strive to create a culture of respect, teamwork, and excellence. Whether you're interested in a career in production, quality control, or management, we have a variety of opportunities available. We believe that our success is a result of our focus on quality, service, and people, and we look forward to continuing to serve our customers and employees with excellence. If you're looking for a rewarding career in the food manufacturing industry, look no further than CTI Foods! Join our team and become a part of a company that values quality, service, and people.

About the role

Production Lead will be responsible for overseeing the overall daily production. Production lead should be able to lead a group of people and ensure job task and assignments align with the overall daily production needs. Leads team members to meet daily production targets while meeting people safety and food safety expectations. Identifies problems or bottlenecks in production processes and resolves immediate issues. Partners with Maintenance to resolve issues where needed. Partners with Quality to address issues that are out of specification. Ensures materials, equipment and human resources are available as needed to maintain production schedules. Leads team members to identify, manage, and execute the plant’s process improvement opportunities. 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.

Responsibilities

• Ensure headcount is at budgeted levels
• Owns people safety, food safety, cost execution, meeting the production schedule, and morale of the team
• Monitor production to ensure that food safety, quality, productivity, and cost standards are met
• Provide employee training to ensure that employees are performing job responsibilities effectively
• Enforce plant rules, regulations and procedures
• Evaluate subordinate performance, communicate with employees, and provide coaching for work performance improvement
• Participate in the support of plant and company safety programs, promoting and maintaining a high level of awareness and adherence to defined employee safety requirements such as lock-out/tag-out, personal protective equipment, confined space entry, etc.
• Works with other Leads and gives and seeks support to meet targets
• Promotes, adheres, and is responsible for Food Safety and Quality

Duties and essential job functions

• Has demonstrated the proven ability to lead others in a positive manner to meet quality and production standards
• Has a strong presence on the production floor to support the line and team
• Above average communication skills with