Team Lead

Minimum Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required
• At least 2 years of manufacturing leadership required
• Strong organizational skills

Additional Skills and Experience

• Experience in a food manufacturing environment desired

Responsibilities

• Coordinate staffing and overtime activities on shift for the team and upcoming shifts
• Manage the day ensuring team has clear shift plans at least 24 hours prior to the new shift
• Follow through on shift plans to ensure key work tasks are accomplished before the end of shift
• Serve as a resource to flow work where needed
• Be responsible and accountable for all team results (Safety, Quality, Sanitation, Delivery, Reliability, Overtime, Training, etc.)
• Ensure the team is achieving desired short-term goals and maintain team scorecards for all areas of responsibility
• Ensure the team operates based on established documented SOPs and manufacturing standards
• Be qualified on key job functions, including machine operations and sanitation of line equipment
• Communicate activities and issues across department boundaries
• Work with business partners to resolve issues such as production accounting, quality/reliability concerns, production planning, and schedule changes
• Seek out and use department and plant resources on Operational Excellence systems, such as PM, FI, or AM
• Coach team members on root cause analysis tools to resolve operational and technical problems
• Resolve interpersonal conflicts between teams and individuals
• Facilitate goal setting and train groups on effective communication
• Use accountability models to improve individual performance
• Ensure each individual has a clear training plan and is making satisfactory progress toward that plan
• Coach team members on performance
• Assess team results weekly and monthly
• Develop plans to improve outages and work directly with Supervisors and Area Leaders to improve results
• Develop savings projects to improve department losses and work with key resources to drive improvements
• Coach team members to reduce losses
• Serve as a resource on business information systems such as Proficy, EAM, and IMS
• Provide effective feedback and develop work plans that drive the business and build individual skills
• Lead effective team meetings
• Ensure key information is discussed and address/resolve team conflicts in a group setting

Work Environment

This job operates in a manufacturing environment. The noise level in the work environment and manufacturing sites can be loud.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear
• Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms
• Occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• May require use of equipment requiring certification before use

About the Company

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.