Production Team Leader

Want to join a team where you can demonstrate your leadership and help drive new growth? TASK & RESPONSIBILITIES Provides team leadership and coaching. Leads by example. Strictly follows all safety procedures and uses all required personal protective equipment. Trains and develop associates on safety, quality, equipment, and sanitation operations. Knowledgeable of both applicable policies and procedures, as well as state and federal laws, as they apply to assigned team tasks; monitors associate tasks and activities to ensure compliance Facilitate problem solving and collaboration between associates on assigned shift, as well as shift to shift and with support personnel Creates an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort Completes associate accountability tasks such as corrective actions, time approval, and associate evaluations. Focuses the team on the task at hand, ensuring shift goals are achieved and positioning plant for future success. Maintains thorough knowledge of all production and sanitation processes. Can operate all pieces of equipment and back up all operators. Gives direction, and redirects work as required, to align activities and behaviors towards goal attainment. Must be able to follow, as well as give, direction. Intervenes, when necessary, to support timely completion and uninterrupted flow of operations. Assigns non-urgent tasks when free time is available (pump rebuilds, sanitation, etc.); follows up with associates to ensure tasks are completed on time and to standard. Provides necessary business information required for shift success (order attainment needs, unload needs, upcoming shut down information, etc.) Coordinates team logistics. Works with plant leadership team and on-shift support personnel to obtain necessary resources to support the team's requirements. Submits maintenance work requests. Coordinates meeting times, places and agendas. Obtains the tools required for team members to safely complete assigned tasks. Participate in and lead improvement initiatives. Ensure team members are scheduled to attend improvement initiatives, which may be scheduled during off cycle days. Communicates team status, accomplishment and direction. Leads pre shift meetings. Participate in daily direction setting meetings with management and team associates. Provides status reporting of team accomplishments against key performance targets. Serves as the focal point to communicate and resolve issues with other teams or support personnel. Escalates issues that cannot be resolved by the team. Provides guidance to the team based on management direction. Maintains proper and accurate documentation. Completes and submits documentation in a timely fashion (ex. Production reports, safety reports). Ensure team members have completed documentation accurately and to standard. Recognizes and celebrates team and team member accomplishments and exceptional performance via formal and informal recognition methods. All Other duties as assigned. Taking care of business starts with taking care of our associates! EEO Employer: M/F/Vets/Disabled IsoNova joined Symrise in 2019, a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food. Its sales of € 3.8 billion in the 2021 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented by more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the United States and Latin America. Symrise works with its clients to develop new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an integral part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process. Symrise Pet Food (https://petfood.symrise.com/nam-en/), the pet food division of Symrise, is the global leader of high value solutions improving pets’ well-being and owners’ satisfaction. Symrise Pet Food partners with pet food manufacturers to offer complete solutions covering three essential aspects of pet food: partner with pet food manufacturers to offer complete solutions covering 3 essential aspects of pet food: pet food palatability, pet nutrition and pet food protection. We are hiring for the pet nutrition business line of Symrise Pet Food, that offers chicken ingredients, egg ingredients and health ingredients, that bring nutritional and/or functional benefits to pet food. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program which includes a 401k plan offering an employer match of $2 for every $1 an employee contributes for the first 3%. IsoNova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Find your job on one of our 13 pet nutrition sites in the USA! Symrise – always inspiring more…

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