Description

Objective:Develop hourly employees by providing leadership, direction, and support to assure completion of the production schedule while maintaining adherence to safety, quality, and cost considerations. Facilitate all areas of people management such as corrective actions, attendance, PTO, and other plant policies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Leads the activities of the assigned area to meet key performance production goals and objectives.
• Manage resource requirements for assigned areas to ensure efficient production methods

• Develop hourly employees to take ownership of key measures such as yields, safety, and quality
• Lead and support process improvement activities with informal and formal teams

• Understand production SOPs to develop training capability, as well as implementing best practices
• Learn and understand daily production reports to observe trends in the production cycle
• Participate in shelf-life optimization studies to qualify lines for new products and/or improved shelf life.
• Perform line activities such as theoretical yield, run rate analysis, dryer charge weight, spill points, and/or establishing line bottlenecks

Qualifications

Skills Required:

• Must have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate through in written and verbal form.
• Be a productive team member in both formal and informal settings
• Drives for results in a fast-paced environment and develop direct reports to focus on the results and not the effort.

• Strives to exceed the needs of external and internal team members, while fostering the development of the entire team.
• Communicates intentions, ideas, and feelings openly and allows others to do the same while modeling our mission, vision, and values.

• Ability to work weekends and extended hours.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Software

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum high school or GED

Desired Qualifications:

• Prefer Associate degree or higher level of education
• Equivalent experience may be considered in exchange for education