Team Leader Production

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world. A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

About the Role

The Team Leader Production opportunity develops future leaders here at Lamb Weston. This is a supervisor role where you will help your production team reach target goals, manage day-to-day operations, and will be responsible for identifying areas of improvement in the manufacturing process. Our Team Leaders not only receive extensive leadership and functional training, but they are also quickly and frequently promoted throughout Lamb Weston. When you choose a career with us, every day is Fry-day!

Responsibilities

• Manage and ensure the safety of your production team members, between 15-50 people per shift, and attain production and quality goals.
• Oversee areas of improvement throughout the production process, ensuring schedules and goals are met through guiding production resources, materials, processes, and equipment.
• Support continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
• Manage and own various functions of the business and create an engaged and team-oriented work environment to improve business results.
• Monitor production to ensure that quality, productivity, and cost standards are maintained.
• Provide team member training to ensure teams are performing job responsibilities effectively and safely.
• Assist with the supervision of sanitation operations to promote and maintain a clean and food-safe environment.
• Enforce plant rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Evaluate team member performance and provide guidance for performance improvement.
• Participate 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: lock-out/tag-out, personal protective equipment, confined space entry, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Associate degree, minimum 4 years of relevant industry/work experience, or supervisory/management experience is required.
• High School diploma/GED required.
• Demonstrated supervisory or leadership experience.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• A self-motivated individual who is able to multi-task and lead others.
• Must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 is a plus.
• Working knowledge of plant equipment and safety is a plus.
• Previous experience in food-processing is a plus.

Physical Demands

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 hands to handle, feel, and 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 include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Frequently exposed to extreme cold, extreme heat, and vibration.
• 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

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• 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.

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Pay

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. 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. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect the local cost of labor.

Pay Rate or Range: $71,410.00 - $107,110.00