Production Lead NV 3rd Shift

Responsibilities

• Produce the largest amount of quality product possible while complying with all production and safety guidelines.
• Operate and maintain cup line equipment, including washouts, CIPs, product changeovers, and package changeovers.
• Oversee a team and work closely with the Packaging Team Lead.
• Identify, communicate, and resolve quality issues.
• Lead courageously under the directive of the Team Leader.
• Maintain quality standards.
• Assist team members in adhering to General Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), safety rules, and plant rules.
• Oversee the process of receiving product from the processing department, packaging it, and sending it to the Warehouse as quality, shippable, finished product.
• Ensure compliance with corporate standards for food safety, food safety culture, quality, and facility cleanliness.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Food Safety Responsibilities

• Produce product free of contamination.
• Follow all Ken’s Foods SQF, Security, and GMP policies.
• Report any suspicious activities in or around the plant.
• Continuously inspect the work area for potential product contamination issues.

Skills

Language Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of Team Members.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Mental Alertness Requirements

• Work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Perform tasks involving high levels of cognitive function and judgment.
• Not mentally or physically impaired from any cause that can adversely affect the ability to safely and competently perform the duties of the position.
• Take prompt and appropriate responses to operating conditions.
• Work in an unfatigued state.
• Accurately gauge lengths of time and distance.
• Quickly store and recall instructions in short-term memory.
• Concentrate effectively.
• Cope with sudden changes in surrounding and/or emergency situations and/or alarms.
• Demonstrate a caring, committed, and concerned attitude about safety.

Work Environment

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

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and risk of electrical shock.
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.