Manufacturing Team Lead (3rd shift)

Kraft HeinzHolland, MI
Onsite

About The Position

This role provides leadership in operations, assessing, coaching, or teaching team members on area processes, procedures, or work instructions. The Manufacturing Team Lead acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing guidance to ensure their process areas are not constrained due to lack of capability or knowledge. This position facilitates communication and collaboration between operations and support departments, and collaborates with operators and support functions to develop and execute plans to win each shift.

Requirements

  • Qualified or demonstrate expertise in; CIL, CLM, 5S, Basic Problem Solving (5-Whys)
  • Willingness to become Yellow Belt qualified
  • Upon hire will train to become Lock Out Tag Out certified and maintain qualification
  • Must successfully pass on the job training and maintain operator qualification

Responsibilities

  • Develops strong coaching skills to provide effective feedback for plant team members in area of expertise.
  • Provides mentorship and guidance for operator development and training.
  • Provides guidance for operator troubleshooting.
  • Champions, leads, and executes equipment, reliability, or process improvement projects.
  • Provides process specific guidance and expertise to production and support teams.
  • Leads production team to develop and execute a plan to win the shift.
  • Reports out at relevant meetings KPI’s.
  • Updates relevant KPIs and metrics to ensure effective and efficient communication of process areas activities and outcomes.
  • Partners with site leadership teams to ensure key stakeholders are aware of critical equipment or process failures.
  • Facilitates the line loss analysis (waste elimination and yield improvement) and line throughput improvement plans (Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) current/future state).
  • Analyzes daily and shift line data to identify and prioritize loss elimination opportunities.
  • Spends time on the floor to gather information on stops, centerlines and changeovers over the past 24 hours.
  • Investigates initial root cause of top stops utilizing KHMS tools.
  • Develops plan for the shift for ownership areas.
  • Leads level 1 meetings.
  • Participates in level 2 and Daily Production Meeting (DPM).
  • Discusses top stops, root causes and establishes countermeasures in a plan to win the shift.
  • Manages DMS completion and compliance and develops action plan for any outages.
  • Accountable for meeting KHMS requirements as outlined in Digital Coach.
  • Works with Process Owner, CI Lead and Maintenance Lead to address losses.
  • Ensures all safety and quality guidelines are being followed.
  • Maintains legible, neat and accurate records and reports.
  • Works with TRIO to identify improvement projects for process area.
  • Drives breakthrough results in planned and unplanned downtime reduction.
  • Leads/supports RCFA process as assigned.
  • Supports DMS training and coaching.
  • Coaches, trains, and develops team by serving as process area coach and resource.
  • Actively participates in KHMS structured processes and DPM according to standard.
  • Serves as leader or participant on assigned teams and supports team decisions as needed.
  • Creates and/or tracks OEE performance reports for assigned area.
  • Requests support from leadership and support groups to remove barriers.
  • Organizes planned stops.
  • Conducts coaching in ownership areas for root cause analysis of process failures and/or break downs and defect handling process.
  • May be required to work in different business units and other shifts to expand business knowledge.
  • Utilizes the SAP system for entering notifications and tracking production requirements.
  • Executes daily skills using email, word processing and spreadsheet management.
  • Performs and oversees all work in accordance with Kraft Heinz, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and NEC standards (in a safe and efficient manner consistent with lockout/tagout, hot work, fall protection, and other OSHA regulations).
  • Facilitates timely completion and effectiveness of safety and FSQ corrective actions for area of responsibility.
  • Complies with all Kraft Heinz policies, procedures, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
  • Understands and accepts the operational reliability culture using KHMS tools and is supportive of plant and department team goals and vision.
  • Manages and improves start up, shut down, and changeover processes.
  • Supports line day to day activities.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Pet Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family’s needs.
  • Events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.
  • Paid Time Off
  • Company Holidays
  • Leave of Absence
  • Recognition
  • Training
  • 401k
  • Life
  • Accidental Death & Dismemberment
  • Disability
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