**Position** : PRODUCTION LEAD - NIGHT SHIFT - LINE 2

**Location** : Schulenburg, Texas

**Requisition ID:** : 25737

**General Purpose:**

Assists Shift Supervisor in managing a production shift.

**Job Duties and Responsibilities:**

Ensures operators perform their daily assigned jobs by providing them with the tools needed to succeed (i.e. verbal direction, manufacturing instructions, batch sheets, job aids, schedules, etc.)

Ensures operators are properly aligned with the days production needs and requirements.

Promotes safety, efficiency and goal attainment.

Assists Shift Supervisor to monitor line efficiency throughout shift and reports on successes or opportunities through daily shift reports.

Meets customer expectations on quality and delivery of goods.

Follows all DFA GMPs and work in a manner consistent with all corporate, regulatory quality, and sanitation requirements.

Follows all safety regulations.

Handles cleaning chemicals in a safe manner utilizing safety equipment such as gloves, eyewear, etc.

Serves as backup for relief operators when required.

Performs required plant inspections and oversees Master Sanitation.

Promotes teamwork and assists in problem solving.

Trains new Operators as required.

Communicates with the QA department and the Shift Supervisors on a regular basis to ensure that products needed for customers are being produced and meet DFA standards.

Covers shift during Shift Supervisors absence.

Other duties and tasks may be included when necessary.

Ability to function in a team based structure and positively contributes to those efforts

**Shift Schedule Monday - Friday 8pm - 4am or 6pm - 4pm - Based on Product Demand**

High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent Experience

**_Knowledge, Skills and Abilities_**

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.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Must be proficient and knowledgeable in a minimum of twelve (12) jobs in the process, pack-off, retort area and with all Process Control Points.

Understanding of AIB, FDA, GMP, HACCP, Thermal Processing and Sanitation/CIP

Excellent oral & written communication

Demonstrate leadership skills

Adaptability to quick schedule changes

Possess basic computer skills.

Must be able to attain a Forklift Operator License within 30 days of hiring.

Must be able to obtain Better Processing School Certificate