Team Lead - Can Making - 2nd shift

SUMMARY: This position is responsible for the day-to-day requirements of operating the can making lines. This position is also responsible for food safety and quality procedures in order to maintain a safe and quality product. Duties include complete set up and managing of production lines including all line adjustments, change over management, manpower utilization, production efficiencies, quality standards, managing waste on line and identifying and communicating potential bottlenecks and savings opportunities. Flexibility to meet changing demands in an operational team oriented environment is a necessity. Bi-lingual in Spanish and English strongly preferred.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other appropriate duties may be assigned as required.

• Partner with Quality Assurance, executing and supporting all Quality programs that ensure the production of Safe, Quality Foods.
• Lead employee daily activities to ensure safe and efficient operations and product quality.
• Ensure that all required paperwork and documentation is processed in compliance with regulatory, company and customer requirements. Provide training and support as needed.
• Partner with the maintenance department to ensure that all mechanical issues are handled timely.
• Coordinate shift activities including production schedule, employee assignments, training and cross training.
• Lead regular team meetings covering safety training and topics, production scorecard, identified issues, root cause identification, action plans and completion activities.
• Maintain an organized, clean and safe work area. Adhere to company policies concerning GMP’s.
• Responsible for strict observance and compliance with all standard safety practices, safety guidelines and all Company policies and guidelines. Main proper safety conditions of equipment and of Company assets.
• Proficient in standard sanitation procedures of equipment.
• Able to work shift and/or overtime plus weekends as required.
• Able to meet all attendance requirements based on Company’s Attendance Policy.
• Effectively cooperate with direct supervision as well as maintain professional and cooperative relationships across all lines of the company.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and/or Experience:

• A high school diploma or its equivalent is required.
• 1 to 2 years’ experience in food manufacturing preferred, but not required.
• Previous leadership experience a plus.

Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrated, proactive approach to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Excellent communication skills necessary to interact with other employees, mechanics and leadership.
• Dependability and reliability.
• Ability to use a calculator to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Must be able to accurately record results.
• Computer knowledge helpful.
• Ability to read, understand and comply with work directions, training manuals, safety rules, Standard Operating Procedures and Good Manufacturing Processes.
• Able to accurately complete appropriate paperwork for the duties of the position.

SECONDARY SUPPORT: In the event of an absence, this position will be backfilled by a member of the team who has been trained to cover this position.

RELATIONSHIPS: Maintain a strong working relationship with peers, Maintenance, Quality Assurance and Leadership.

ENGLISH PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS:

SPEAKING: Verbally interacts to coordinate tasks with others one-on-one and with one or more people, face to face or on the phone; often with authority figures, in academic/workplace contexts. Explains how to carry out a process, procedure, method or technique.

LISTENING: Must possess adequate listening/interpreting skills to satisfy most academic and work-related expectations for competent communication. Can follow extensive, multi-step complex instructions on how to operate a machine and can complete a related evaluation task in a standard format: circling, matching, filling in blanks, completing a chart.

DOCUMENT USE: Able to locate and integrate, or compare/contrast 2-3 specific pieces of information in visually complex texts (e.g., tables, calendars, schedules, phone directories, cookbooks) or across paragraphs or sections of text. Able to look at complex diagram/overview of a manufacturing operation and compares accuracy of graphic information with the detailed descriptive text.

READING: Able to read policy and procedure manuals, equipment, installation and use manuals, user product guides, health and safety advisories, legal and administrative procedures, scientific and experimental procedures. Able to interpret selections from texts about safety precautions at a workplace, by locating and integrating 3-4 pieces of information from the text.

WRITING: Able to convey business messages as written notes, memoranda, letters of request, or work log entries, to indicate a problem, to request a change, or to request information.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Must be able to read a scale.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or verbal instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.