Production Team Leader

Date: Sep 26, 2026

Location: Gooding, ID, US, 83330

Company: Glanbia

Production Team Leader Opportunity at Glanbia - day and night shifts available!

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey !

The Opportunity

As a Production Team Leader, you will lead daily shift operations, support and develop hourly employees, and help drive a safe, quality-focused, zero-loss culture. This role is responsible for meeting production goals, supporting continuous improvement, and ensuring products meet Glanbia’s safety, quality, and food safety standards.

Essential Functions

• Lead shift production activities to meet safety, quality, output, budget, and continuous improvement goals.
• Coach, develop, and provide performance feedback to hourly employees while supporting team accountability and engagement.
• Uphold Glanbia safety, GMP, SOP, FDA, USDA, Idaho state, HACCP, and SQF standards.
• Schedule and coordinate employees, shifts, production activities, audits, inventory checks, sampling, and daily standard work.
• Partner with maintenance, logistics, warehouse, and shipping teams to support production flow, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and emergency maintenance decisions.
• Report on plant performance during daily reviews and staff meetings while demonstrating professionalism in communication and behavior.

• Serve on committees as needed and perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with applicable occupational safety, health, and food safety requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; three or more years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating instructions, maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, diagrams, and schedules.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, prioritization, delegation, and basic math skills.
• Intermediate computer skills, including email, databases, word processing, spreadsheets, and graphics.
• Must complete Glanbia’s Team Lead certification program.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

Typical Physical Activity

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly involves standing, walking, talking, and listening; may also involve sitting, reaching, crouching, stooping, kneeling, climbing, balancing, and using hands and fingers.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds and perform moderate physical activity in a production/technical environment.
• Specific vision requirements include close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Typical Environmental Conditions

• May be exposed to loud noise, humidity, heat, fumes, chemicals, moving mechanical parts, elevated work areas, and electrical shock risks.

Travel Requirements

• Minimal travel limited within the local area.

Where and How You Will Work 

This opportunity is based at our Gooding, Idaho site. Shift options available: 1 day shift opening and 2 night shift openings.

What We Would Like to Offer You

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.

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