Team Leader Production

About the role

Lamb Weston is a leading manufacturer in the industry, inspiring and bringing people together with foods they love and trust. As a Team Leader Production, you will develop future leaders, help your production team reach target goals, manage day-to-day operations, and identify areas of improvement in the manufacturing process.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for managing and ensuring the safety of your production team members, attaining production and quality goals, and overseeing areas of improvement throughout the production process. Additional responsibilities may include:

• Monitoring production to ensure that quality, productivity, and cost standards are maintained
• Providing team member training to ensure that teams are performing job responsibilities effectively and safely
• Assisting with the supervision of sanitation operations as necessary to promote and maintain a clean and food safe environment
• Enforcing plant rules, regulations, and procedures
• Evaluating team member performance and providing guidance for performance improvement
• Participating 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

Requirements

The following qualifications are required:

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree, minimum 4-years of relevant industry/work experience, or supervisory/management experience
• High School diploma/GED 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
• Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Preferred qualifications include:

• 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
• Working knowledge of plant equipment and safety
• Previous experience in a food-processing environment

Work Environment

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.

• Regularly required to stand, walk, and sit
• Regularly required to use your hands to handle, feel, reach
• Regularly required to taste and smell
• Regularly required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• 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

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 moderate.

Benefits

Our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive, including:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
• Paid Time Off
• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
• Family-Friendly Employee events
• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Pay

A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is $71,410.00 - $107,110.00. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience, and expertise.