Packer Lead- Weekend Nights

Utz Brands, Inc.•Hanover, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for a talented Packer Lead to join our leadership team at the High Street facility in Hanover, PA! This is your chance to take your manufacturing experience and leadership skills to the next level while playing a key role in supporting the Production Supervisor on Weekend Nights with daily operations. In this full-time position, you’ll work Friday to Sunday from 5:55 PM-5:55 AM, helping to ensure smooth production processes and maintaining the high-quality standards we’re known for. If you’ve consistently demonstrated leadership, the ability to drive production efficiency, and a commitment to excellence, this is your opportunity to make an even bigger impact within our team! Continuously Pursuing Excellence! Here at Utz, we have a passion for exciting and delighting consumers with delicious snack foods made from high quality ingredients. After over a century with a strong family heritage, our diverse portfolio of brands includes Utz, Zapp’s, Boulder Canyon, and On the Border. Our associates are the reason for the success of this company, so it is important we provide a supportive, caring and inclusive environment that offers opportunities for career growth and advancement. We also help take care of our associates by providing benefits, resources, and programs that ensure they live their healthiest lives. Our full-time benefit package includes medical, dental, and vision plans, an employer match 401k, profit sharing plan, employee stock purchase plan and much more. Join our world class team and help us become the fastest growing pure-play U.S. snacking company of scale! Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Responsibilities

Assists Packaging Supervisor in leading all production activities and acts as back up in their absence.
Maintains a constant line of communication with the supervisor communicating downtime, production difficulties and product overflow.
Integral to ERP functionality. Works with plant leadership to resolve discrepancies and address variances.
Maintains a working knowledge and utilizes RedZone, 6S Principles and Continuous Improvement.
Schedules personnel in an efficient manner in order to meet daily production requirements.
Monitors each packaging station every hour checking code dates, price, weight, seal integrity, bag waste and machine efficiency.
Uses EAM to enter work orders and track preventative maintenance tasks.
Identifies, organizes and leads projects as requested by plant management.
Separates and removes questionable finished product to be reviewed by Shift Manager.
Ability to perform the duties of a packer.
Assist in overseeing sanitation duties performed in the packaging room.
Must undergo training with chemicals used to perform sanitation duties.
Monitors daily attendance, evaluates individual performance and trains packaging personnel to ensure standards are met.
Responsible to follow safety rules, work safely at all times and report unsafe equipment and practices.
Must adhere to all Good Manufacturing Practice.
Responsible for quality and food safety tasks for their position.
Other duties as assigned by supervisor.