Meat Packaging Leader

About the role

Are you a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced production environment? We are looking for a Meat Packaging Leader to help drive safety, quality, productivity, and team engagement within our packaging operations. If you're ready to make an impact and be part of a company committed to Do Good, Be Great, and Scale Excellence, we'd love to hear from you. Summary Of Position The Packager I Lead is a hands-on position reporting to the Meat Production Supervisor who is responsible for helping ensure work is completed safely, accurately, on-time, and on-budget. This position leads by example, maintaining a positive, team-member-empowered environment where beneficial changes to departmental operations, safety, and process are understood and embraced. Assisting with multi-departmental communication (to HR, other Ops leaders and Sales) is necessary to address pain-points and contribute to solutions.

Responsibilities

• Successfully complete Packager Utility, Packager and Packager I training.
• Use Leader Standard Work (LSW) for daily, weekly, monthly tasks.
• Assist with ensuring the execution of processes resulting in producing finished goods safely, accurately, and on-time to both internal and external customers.
• Embrace a data driven approach to allocating resources and completing tasks.
• Assist with communicating weekly grinding department schedule and daily assignments.
• Be a daily mentor to production team members by encouraging good behaviors and coaching underperforming behaviors following Fortune’s mission/vision/values.
• Attend (and lead in place of Production Supervisor) production room huddles to communicate and discuss safety, quality, productivity expectations (KPI’s), and general current events with production staff.
• Actively participate in weekly “check-ins” with the Meat Production Supervisor to clearly communicate pain-points/success stories regarding KPI’s, staffing, team member performance, interdepartmental/company concerns and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Help create a safe working environment and supporting facility safety initiatives: Understand and assist with ensuring the facility HACCP plan is followed daily.
• Assist with the creation and training of Job Instructions (JI) and Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
• Assist (and sometimes lead) employee and food safety corrective action investigations.
• Assist the Meat Production Supervisor communication effort for the department: Daily communication with other meat room leaders; Sales/Warehouse staff concerning product outs, shorts/allocations and other customer satisfaction considerations; Purchasing concerning raw material issues; HR regarding timeclock and general personnel discussions; Maintenance/Sanitation ensuring the smooth operation of production room equipment.
• Collaborate with room leaders embracing training opportunities.
• Participate in inventory control activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 1 plus years of foodservice production experience.
• Good communication skills in English (written and verbal).
• Ability to calculate basic math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
• Basic understanding and ability to use MS Office Suite.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operation and maintenance instructions and supervising instructions.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to work flexible and/or extended hours, when needed.
• Previous machine operating experience.
• Previous kitchen experience preferred.

Schedule

Night Shift Sunday-Thursday 10:00pm-6:30am (end times may vary slightly based upon business needs)