Lead - Production (2nd Shift - 4 days a week)

B&G Foods•Hurlock, MD

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Ready to be part of something special? Join our Family! This role is responsible for ensuring production lines are set up correctly, materials are available, and production runs smoothly. The Lead will oversee employees on the line, enforce safety and GMP practices, and train new employees. They will also be responsible for reporting issues to maintenance and QA, completing paperwork, maintaining a clean work area, and ensuring timely changeovers. Food safety and quality are paramount, and the Lead must ensure a good, safe, wholesome product is produced safely. Other duties as required.

Requirements

Self-motivated and team-oriented individual.
Ability to work with minimal supervision.
Ability to learn each piece of equipment on the line assigned to facilitate training new employees.
Ability to motivate and guide others.
Microsoft Office user (Outlook, Excel).
Ability to operate a forklift.
Basic math skills.

Responsibilities

Ensure the line is set up and ready with all guards in place before start-up.
Verify the availability of all materials needed for that day’s production run and account for material/product loss (yield variances).
Conduct all work requirements by all applicable company policies and work rules.
Responsible for all employees while assigned to the line.
Ensure and enforce that all employees are wearing proper PPE, following GMP practices, etc., and hold employees accountable for work rule violations.
Train new employees on their respective positions on the line and ensure all applicable JSA’s trained before starting assignment.
Train employees on JSA’s as employees are moved from one position to another before starting new assignments.
Notify maintenance immediately of any problems that may occur.
Notify QA of any out-of-spec product or labeling issues that may occur.
Complete all required paperwork correctly.
Maintain a clean and safe work area.
Ensure timely changeovers when required.
Work safely and report all unsafe working conditions and/or unsafe acts to the supervisor immediately.
Responsible for ensuring food safety/quality policies are followed, to report all food safety/quality problems out of their realm of responsibility to personnel with the authority to initiate action.
Responsible for making sure a good safe wholesome product is produced safely.
All other duties as required.