Line Lead - Packaging

Stoltzfus Quality Meats (SQM) • Leacock Township, PA

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About The Position

Stoltzfus Quality Meats (SQM), managed by John F. Martin & Sons, is hiring a Line Lead for its Packaging Department. The Line Lead assists the department supervisor in overseeing production activities and ensuring the team meets production, quality, and safety goals. In the supervisor’s absence, the Line Lead assumes the supervisor’s duties. This role operates in a fast-paced refrigerated environment and requires reliable attendance, professional leadership, and the ability to engage and motivate employees.

The position is first shift, scheduled from 5:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with some mandatory overtime. The Line Lead assists with operational and safety-related functions involving company equipment and machinery, operates machinery, plans staff scheduling, rotations, and tasks, and reports machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians. The role also provides management with information about employee counseling, performance, safety, quality, productivity, and attendance.

Requirements

• Consistent and reliable attendance.
• Basic math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to understand all aspects of company recipes.
• Ability to effectively present information one-on-one and in small-group settings to management and team members.
• Ability to apply common-sense understanding when following instructions and dealing with problems.
• Ability to work with and train employees in a fast-paced refrigerated environment.
• Ability to engage and motivate a production team while setting a professional example.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Packaging Department supervisor in overseeing production-team activities and day-to-day production.
• Help ensure the team meets production, quality, and safety goals.
• Assume the department supervisor’s duties in the supervisor’s absence.
• Assist the supervisor with operational and safety-related functions involving company equipment and machinery.
• Provide input to the supervisor on employee counseling and performance evaluations.
• Operate machinery and plan staff scheduling, rotations, and tasks.
• Report machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians.
• Report employee safety, quality, productivity, and attendance issues to management.
• Work with and train employees in a fast-paced refrigerated environment.
• Engage and motivate the production team while setting a professional example.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Short-term disability insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation
• Referral bonuses
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Wellness program
• Incentive programs
• Other fringe benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed