Production Lead Nights

Mars•Temple, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Lead is responsible for independently leading an entire production team within the facility. This role serves as the key point of contact for support groups on all tactical activities and is the value-stream contact for all externally driven activities in their area. The Shift Lead will take a supporting role with the Line Manager in the performance management process of associates on their shift and will participate in developmental assignments and/or any new product/technology projects in their area, working without direct supervision.

Requirements

5 years of manufacturing experience as an Operator, Team Captain, or Maintenance role
High school diploma or equivalent
Ability to travel 5% of the time
Successful completion of a substance screening and background check
Leadership Skills
Communication Skills
Interpersonal/Team Working Skills
Job Knowledge
Business Knowledge
Continuous Improvement
Problem Solving Skills
Training Skills
Initiative
Work Standards

Nice To Haves

Associate's degree or equivalent training and/or experience

Responsibilities

Train operators to interpret data (trend data, identify root cause, implement solution)
Train operators to formulate actions to address non-conformance issues
Analyze and develop permanent solutions to prevent chronic or significant quality issues
Provide input for improvements/changes to work instructions
Oversee quality or product conformance issues to ensure corrective/preventative actions are implemented and completed
Train operators on safe operating procedures
Provide input to any investigation for area of responsibility
Ensure working conditions are Normal and enforce safety requirements
Provide input to project safety reviews or committee meetings on plant systems
Seek innovative solutions and develop step-function improvements including the use of new technology
Primary project support to engineering and maintenance
Technical resource across site
Drive continuous improvement by developing and implementing systems that optimize all phases of the manufacturing process and support key business objectives (waste, labor, reliability, adherence to schedule, line capacity, etc.)
Provide input to feasibility and change management requests
Resource to other sites and across areas
Effectively communicates and works with the Reliability group to co-ordinate and complete PM’s and improvements to area.
Identify, report, and help any potential product contamination issue.
Maintains clean work environment including 5S adherence and follow through to ensure completion of action plans to address sources of contamination.
Leadership role in cleaning and sanitation of area.
Ensure hourly compliance of FMOS process, including but not limited to all system level boards, area boards, escalations and escalation protocol, connection points, and team communications.
Provide input to Manager for annual performance reviews of area associates.
Monitor attendance of each associate and recommend actions as necessary according to company policy.
Give input to the Manager, regarding job and development expectations for associates by area/job
Reinforce and communicate job and development expectations to associates
Provide performance coaching and feedback to associates on a regular basis
May be involved with hiring decisions along with Manager
Team Engagement including facilitation of team building discussions
Provide supplemental input for associates' performance reviews
Responsible for co-ordinating changeover (planning, execution, ramp up to standard rate).
Monitor line performance versus plan.
Responsible for insuring complete and current training documentation on changeovers.
Provide team leadership for planning, communicating, and executing change-over for line or equipment.
Lead and safely execute start-up and shutdown activities.
Participate on core teams and cross functional project team
Ensure efficient logistics and use of resources throughout the entire line (full-time and temporary manpower).
Prioritizes all of the operational activities such as unplanned work orders, cleaning activities, and operational preventative maintenance programs.
Monitor on shift SPEDE, data taker, and ingredient lot tracking programs.
Demonstrated ability to resolve non-routine issues at root cause and incorporate into preventive actions.
Develop best practices for area and insure best practices are followed.
Lead or participate in continuous improvement efforts.
Effective shift communications.
Attends and leads shift overlaps, quality reviews, and daily meetings as required.
Ability to complete root cause failure analysis on issues involving reliability, product/packaging defects, downtime and slow time.
Effectively works and communicates with all support departments (scheduling, engineering, R&D, IE, logistics, etc.).