Production Lead - D Shift (Nights)

Carolina Beverage • Mooresville, NC

1d

About The Position

Production Leads are responsible for the tactical execution of day-to-day operations, maintaining a sanitary work environment, and developing their teams to ensure expected output is achieved. This is a full-time night-shift position with 12-hour shifts from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule, working 15 days per month.

The lead is expected to arrive 15 minutes before the shift to coordinate with the previous shift, prepare for the shift meeting, and communicate issues and expectations to the team. The role includes staging materials, maintaining line efficiency, training and reviewing employees, monitoring sanitation and compliance, managing downtime and yields, and coordinating with Maintenance and Quality.

Requirements

• Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities representative of those needed to perform the listed duties.
• Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including regularly lifting or moving up to 50 pounds and occasionally lifting up to 100 pounds.
• Distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Responsibilities

• Arrive 15 minutes before the shift to receive a handoff from the previous shift, prepare for the shift meeting, and communicate prior-shift issues and the plan for the shift to the team.
• Ensure materials are staged.
• Maintain line efficiencies above 65%.
• Develop and train operators and the team collectively.
• Conduct 30/60/90-day reviews of new hires.
• Monitor and assist operators as needed to maintain sanitation in the assigned area.
• Monitor the team's PPE and GMP compliance.
• Maintain accurate reports on downtime and scanning accuracy for materials and finished goods.
• Operate or demonstrate proficiency with equipment on the line, including depalletizer, palletizer, mixer, filler, pasteurizer/warmer, case packer, multipacker, can coder, labeler, sleever, and in-line quality inspection units.
• Identify line issues and work to resolve them, sometimes with assistance from other departments.
• Manage recycling and waste streams.
• Manage yields, monitor Filtec data, adjust poorly filling valves, and ensure operators limit dunnage waste.
• Engage with Maintenance and Quality teammates to ensure machines and packaging meet customer satisfaction.
• Ensure work orders are submitted for line repairs.
• Ensure CILs are completed.
• Manage planned downtime events, such as CIPs and changeovers, to mitigate downtime.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, HSA, and FSA plans, plus dental and vision coverage options for employees and their families; coverage begins the first of the month following 60 days.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• 401(k) with company match, available beginning after the first paycheck.
• Monthly performance-based bonuses.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Life insurance, AD&D insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Free uniforms.
• Referral bonuses.

What This Job Offers

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