Food Contact Team Leader

Reynolds Consumer Products LLC•Lewiston, UT

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Food Contact Team Leader provides leadership and stability within a manufacturing area by supporting employee development, production performance, safety, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement. The role helps maintain process flow, standardized work, and daily output goals; serves as a resource in the operational help chain; supports decisions involving safety, quality, production, and process interruptions; and may back-fill the Shift Leader as needed. The position also promotes safe food-packaging practices and compliance with applicable food-safety, hygiene, housekeeping, and quality requirements. The role is based at the Reynolds Consumer Products manufacturing plant in Lewiston, Idaho, and operates on a rotating 12-hour 2-2-3 schedule. The Food Contact Team Leader helps train employees, maintain production performance, troubleshoot process issues, support safety and quality programs, and lead continuous improvement activities. The employee is responsible for maintaining personal conditioning to physically perform the job’s essential functions.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
High-school-equivalent math and reading skills are preferred.
Ability to learn, develop, and maintain knowledge and skills appropriate to the job assignment.
Written and verbal communication skills.
Basic technical skills.
Gluer setup and minor adjustment skills.
Machine setup skills, including Bubble to good bags.
Understanding of basic extrusion and converting processes.
Resin-change skills.
Ability to address stacking and rolling issues.
Ability to coordinate profile changes.
Cartoning and casing setup skills.
Minor gauge adjustment skills.
Printer setup and adjustment skills.
Computer literacy, including email and Microsoft Office programs.
Ability to learn computer programs such as Oracle, Shop Floor, and Ignition.
Conflict-resolution skills.
Problem-solving skills.
Flexibility to adapt to changing assignment demands.
Ability to maintain personal conditioning to perform essential job functions.

Nice To Haves

High-school-equivalent math skills.
High-school-equivalent reading skills.

Responsibilities

Assist with daily employee training and provide safety training.
Back-fill the Shift Leader as needed and provide leadership and stability in manufacturing.
Remain accountable for safety, hygiene, and housekeeping as a team member.
Understand and maintain net daily output goals.
Help restore process flow when interrupted and troubleshoot problems to root cause as part of the help chain.
Assist the area in developing and maintaining standardized work, monitor its content, and participate in procedure updates.
Serve as a resource for shift issues and initiate the help chain based on area performance.
Understand machine schedules and alert the Shift Leader when changes may be needed.
Monitor run conditions and help respond when conditions are out of range.
Participate in productivity improvements.
Assist with accident and near-miss investigations and participate in the Safety Observation process.
Serve as a member of the Emergency Response Team (ERT).
Support run or shutdown decisions when safety issues arise; be trained in lock/tag/try and sustain the 5S program.
Comply with SQF and GMP practices and programs, and report food-safety problems to people authorized to take action.
Perform off-line quality testing and audit completion of in-process and product-quality checks.
Support machine shutdown decisions for quality reasons and ensure routine process maintenance is performed.
Perform set-up testing on each line following a changeover or start-up.
Participate in decisions to place product on hold and follow the hold process.
Participate in 5-Why corrective action plans and complete assigned items.
Be responsible for quality performance at all operator stations.
Lead and participate in proactive continuous improvement methods.
Maintain personal conditioning to physically perform essential job functions.