Non-Foods Team Leader

Reynolds Consumer Products LLC•Lewiston, UT

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Non-Foods Team Leader provides leadership and stability within manufacturing operations, supporting employee training, safety, quality, productivity, standardized work, and continuous improvement. The role serves as an available resource in the help chain for troubleshooting, process flow, and operational decisions, helps maintain daily output goals and area performance, supports safety and quality processes, reinforces compliance with established practices, and may back-fill the Shift Leader as needed. The position requires flexibility, technical knowledge, and the ability to respond effectively to changing assignment demands. The role supports employees through daily and safety training; maintains accountability for safety, hygiene, and housekeeping; assists with safety investigations and quality checks; and helps restore process flow and meet productivity goals. The Team Leader participates in standardized work and continuous improvement, monitors area performance and machine schedules, and supports decisions involving safety, quality, product holds, and machine shutdowns. Technical duties include troubleshooting to root cause; gluer and printer set-up or minor adjustments; machine set-up; understanding extrusion and converting processes; resin changes; coordinating profile changes; addressing stacking and rolling issues; cartoning and casing set-up; and minor gauge adjustments. The role also supports SQF and GMP practices to help ensure safe food packaging products and reports food safety problems to authorized personnel. The position is based at the manufacturing plant in Lewiston, Idaho, and follows rotating 12-hour shifts on a 2-2-3 schedule. Base pay is $29.71 per hour.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Written and verbal communication skills.
Basic technical skills.
Conflict resolution skills.
High-school-equivalent math and reading skills.
Problem-solving skills.
Flexibility to adapt to changing assignment demands.
Ability to use email and Microsoft Office programs.
Ability to learn computer programs such as Oracle, Shop Floor, and Ignition.
Ability to maintain the personal conditioning needed to perform essential job functions.

Nice To Haves

Ability to learn, develop, and maintain knowledge and skills appropriate to the job assignment.

Responsibilities

Assist with daily employee training and provide safety training.
Act as a responsible team member accountable for safety, hygiene, and housekeeping.
Back-fill the Shift Leader as needed.
Serve as a resource in the help chain for shift issues and troubleshoot problems.
Understand and maintain net daily output goals.
Help restore process flow when interrupted.
Assist in developing and maintaining standardized work, monitor its content, and participate in procedure updates.
Lead and participate in continuous improvement and productivity improvement efforts.
Understand machine schedules and alert the Shift Leader when changes may be needed.
Monitor area performance and initiate the help chain as appropriate.
Assist with accident and near-miss investigations, serve as a member of the ERT, participate in the IFE process, and use and sustain the 5S program.
Support run and shutdown decisions when safety issues arise and be trained in lock/tag/try.
Monitor operating conditions, respond to out-of-range conditions, perform off-line quality testing, and audit in-process checks and product quality checks.
Support machine shutdown decisions for quality reasons and ensure routine process maintenance is completed.
Perform set-up testing on each line after a changeover or start-up.
Participate in product-hold decisions and follow the hold process.
Participate in 5-Why corrective action plans and complete assigned items.
Be responsible for quality performance across all operator stations.
Comply with SQF and GMP practices and programs and report food safety problems to personnel with authority to act.
Troubleshoot problems to root cause as part of the help chain.
Perform gluer set-up and minor adjustments; machine set-up; resin changes; profile changes; cartoning and casing set-up; minor gauge adjustments; and printer set-up and adjustments.
Understand basic extrusion and converting processes and address stacking and rolling issues.
Maintain personal conditioning to physically perform essential job functions.