Production Team Lead

Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances and flavors, cosmetic active ingredients as well as functional ingredients. Its customers include perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of dietary supplements and pet food.

With sales of around €5.0 billion in the 2024 financial year, the company is one of the world's leading providers. The Group, headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, has more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America.

Together with its customers, Symrise develops new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an indispensable part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked.

Symrise – always inspiring more...

• Provides team leadership and coaching.
• 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.

• Must have the ability to learn all the functions and processes required to be a Team Leader. Experience in food manufacturing operations preferred. Experience in loading trucks and forklift certified, preferred.
• High School Diploma required, associate or bachelor’s degree in technical discipline preferred. Applicable work history or Military experience in lieu of degree will be considered.
• Requires initiative, honesty, and integrity.
• Must work well with people and have respect for peers, subordinates, and upper management.
• Must have the ability to think and draw natural conclusions.
• Must have the ability to adapt to changing situations.
• Must have excellent work record, high standards and a positive attitude.
• Must have a clean, neat appearance; Conducts self in a professional courteous manner.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must have some knowledge of computers or be capable of learning PC applications, such as Outlook, Word and Excel.
• Must be willing to work on night shift if needed.
• Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds, work in hot/cold environment, work at heights, safely dispense and handle sanitation chemicals, climb stairs, squat, and other physical demands as deemed necessary for task completion.

Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.

Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.

If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply by using our online application system. Your application will be treated confidentially.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.