Team Leader Production

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.

Responsibilities

• Manage and ensure the safety of your production team members (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 by 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, creating an engaged and team-oriented work environment to improve business results.
• Monitor production to ensure quality, productivity, and cost standards are maintained.
• Provide team member training to ensure teams perform 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 (e.g., lock-out/tag-out, personal protective equipment, confined space entry).

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.
• Ability 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 (e.g., weekdays, weekends, day, swing, grave) based on production site scheduling needs.
• Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of plant equipment and safety.
• Previous experience in food processing.

Physical Demands

• 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 lift and/or move up to 25 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and 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 or 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

• 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

A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is $71,410.00 – $107,110.00. Actual compensation may be higher or lower based on job duties, experience, expertise, and work location.