Manufacturing Production Team Lead

GA Foods is seeking a Production Team Lead to assist with supporting production line operations, ensuring optimal production efficiency, providing hands-on guidance, and fostering a strong work ethic within the team. This role is ideal for hands-on leaders looking to grow within the company while ensuring production efficiency, quality, and safety.

Production Team Lead Essential Functions: 

• Lead and assist with overseeing the daily operation of the production line, ensuring efficiency and adherence to standards.
• Set up and operate equipment such as case sealers, label machines, and manual assembly stations. 
• Ensure proper labeling, date coding, and packaging of products.
• Assist with identifying and resolving production challenges to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
• Serve as a key resource on the production line, troubleshooting issues, guiding team members, and ensuring seamless workflow
• Monitor and Enforce Compliance – Ensure all employees adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), food safety regulations, and company policies to maintain a safe and sanitary work environment.
• Manage production associates and material handlers, ensuring clear communication, accountability, and performance optimization.
• Assist in managing shift schedules, tracking attendance, and ensuring proper workforce allocation through ADP and other time-tracking systems. Partner with production management to address staffing gaps or concerns with the support of HR
• Provide direction, support, and coaching to team members to optimize performance and maintain high productivity.
• Assist with equipment setup, calibration, troubleshooting, and minor adjustments to keep production running smoothly.
• Maintain accurate digital reports, spreadsheets, and documentation related to production efficiency, waste, downtime, and output.
• Identify process inefficiencies, recommend solutions, and collaborate with line supervisors to enhance productivity and operational performance
• Actively identify and address potential safety hazards, ensuring all employees follow proper safety procedures and guidelines.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance, Safety, Warehouse, and Maintenance teams to ensure smooth plant operations.

What You Bring To The Team (Production Team Lead Requirements):

• Leadership experience in a manufacturing environment (food & beverage preferred).
• A can-do attitude with the ability to motivate and guide a production team while working alongside them.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to receive coaching, adapt to evolving processes, and actively engage in training and development opportunities to enhance leadership and technical skills.
• Computer proficiency with the ability to navigate digital reports, spreadsheets, and tracking systems.
• Strong math skills to ensure accurate tracking of production data, measurements, and inventory.
• Comprehensive knowledge of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and a strong understanding of food safety regulations, sanitation standards, and compliance requirements.
• Attention to detail in quality control, labeling, and process adherence.

Working Conditions & Physical Demands:

• Requires frequent use of motor coordination and fine finger dexterity for operating machinery, handling materials, and performing detailed tasks throughout the workday.
• Must be comfortable working in a manufacturing environment with exposure to food debris, strong odors, continuous equipment noise, varying temperatures (hot and cold) , wet surfaces, and other production-related conditions for extended periods.
• Must have the ability to stand, walk, climb, reach, lift, carry, pull, push, grasp, stoop, squat, bend, and stretch as needed for the duration of the shift.
• Ability to perform repetitive manual tasks while standing for the entirety of the shift, ensuring efficiency and accuracy in a fast-paced production setting.

• Production demands may require evening or weekend scheduling.
• Physical requirements:
• Under 1/3 of the time: Sitting, using hands to handle objects, reaching with arms.
• 1/3 to 2/3 of the time: Standing, walking, talking, or hearing.
• Over 2/3 of the time: Visual focus.
• Under 1/3 of the time: Lifting/exerting up to 50 lbs.

Equal Opportunity Statement

 At GA Foods, we are deeply committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity. It is our policy that all employment decisions are made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetics, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law.

We base all employment decisions on merit, qualifications to perform the essential job functions (with or without reasonable accommodations), and business needs.

GA Foods also provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.

GA Food Services of Pinellas County, LLC (GA Foods) is proud to be a Drug-Free, Smoke-Free Workplace and an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.