Team Lead

Kraft Heinz•Springfield, MO

22d•$32 - $33•Onsite

About The Position

The Kraft Heinz Company is seeking a Team Leader at its Springfield Plant in Springfield, Missouri. The Team Leader is responsible for developing equipment and system ownership, ensuring excellent system execution and continuous loss elimination, and delivering key business results. The role supports safe, compliant, high-quality production and develops team capability through coaching, standard work, training, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Good oral and written communication skills.
Typing skills and the ability to manipulate data using spreadsheets.
Ability to self-manage or a history of being a self-starter.
Ability to perform bending, squatting, kneeling, sorting, ascending, and descending movements and lift up to 60 pounds.

Responsibilities

Apply Kraft Heinz Management System practices, including 5S, centerline management, shift hand-offs, operational standard ownership and support, and problem solving; attend daily performance board meetings.
Ensure line staffing needs are met and improve the capability of team members.
Ensure the team works safely, report or correct unsafe acts and conditions, and follow GMP, PPE, and other safety procedures.
Ensure finished products are produced at the correct quality in a sustainable manner.
Drive continuous improvement of systems and results.
Ensure Safety, Health, and Environmental systems and operational standards comply with company policies, procedures, and processes.
Assess past performance against the Compelling Business Need (CBN), identify priority losses, and create action plans to deliver the CBN.
Coach Equipment Owners on the floor to help them achieve individual goals.
Drive Plan, Do, Check, Act improvement cycles for business results and capability growth.
Implement the Daily Direction Setting cycle and coach the organization on adherence to standards and hands-on use of Daily Management Systems.
Implement and coach Safety and Quality Fundamentals, review incident investigations, and ensure actions are taken to prevent recurrence.
Support supply chain loss analysis and elimination, solve process instability problems, and coach the use of Loss to Zero.
Lead the organization renewal cycle to drive cultural change.
Identify organizational skill gaps and address them using a task-based training approach.
Coach the use of Standard Work to eliminate non-value-added work and reduce effort.
Perform other duties as assigned by the leadership team.

Benefits

Three medical plan options.
Three dental plan options.
Vision plan option.
401(k) with matching contributions.
Company-paid life insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Short-term and long-term disability plans.
Wellbeing program.
Employee Assistance Program.
Pet insurance.
Vacation and paid holidays starting from date of hire.
Field Operations Incentive Plan bonus plan.
Additional benefits and wellbeing programs may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors.