Team Leader 1 - Cellar

Gallo•Modesto, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Join GALLO as a Team Leader and help create a workplace where people can do their best work safely, collaboratively, and with pride. In this hands-on leadership role, you will guide a team of union employees with diverse experiences and backgrounds while supporting daily operations across manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain environments. You will lead day-to-day work, coordinate with cross-functional partners, build effective work plans, and provide timely updates on floor activity. You’ll coach, mentor, and develop team members through regular one-on-one conversations, performance feedback, skill-building, and goal setting. You will also support talent selection, workforce planning, timecard approval, change initiatives, and—when needed—site crisis response. Safety, quality, and respect are central to this role. You will foster an environment where every team member feels empowered to identify hazards, speak up, and contribute ideas. You’ll coach safe work practices, food safety, GMPs, Job Safety Analysis, and standard work while supporting incident investigations, root-cause analysis, and proactive risk reduction. You will help ensure compliance with environmental, health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements, as well as applicable collective bargaining agreements. You will bring curiosity and operational discipline to solving problems, improving performance, and using Lean principles to strengthen processes. You’ll learn the equipment and systems in your area, share technical knowledge with the team, and help manage changes thoughtfully through established processes. This role also supports responsible stewardship of resources by monitoring staffing, material usage, production forecasts, and budget trends. If you are an approachable, accountable leader who can balance people development with operational results, communicate clearly across teams, and build trust through consistent follow-through, we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree; OR, High School diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 4 years of production, operations or logistics experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR, High School diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 4 years of supervisory/managerial experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR, High School diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 4 years of military operations experience to include leadership experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
Required to work shifts as scheduled.
Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Required to be 18 years or older.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Management plus 2 years of manufacturing operations management, or logistics operations management experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
Bilingual in English and Spanish.
Technical production/operations or technical maintenance experience.
Experience leading high performance work teams and providing motivation to achieve plan goals.
Supervisory or managerial experience; demonstrates team building, leadership and mentoring skills.
Experience using a production work management system.
Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing practices.
Consumer Package Goods experience.
Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions.
Experience interpreting an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and dealing with several abstract and concrete variables.
Experience with MS Office Suite.
Skilled at handling confidential or sensitive information.
Experience working with all levels and functions within the Company.
Demonstrated ability to adapt and overcome obstacles; stress tolerance.

Responsibilities

Guide a team of union employees with diverse experiences and backgrounds.
Support daily operations across manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain environments.
Lead day-to-day work.
Coordinate with cross-functional partners.
Build effective work plans.
Provide timely updates on floor activity.
Coach, mentor, and develop team members through regular one-on-one conversations, performance feedback, skill-building, and goal setting.
Support talent selection, workforce planning, timecard approval, change initiatives, and site crisis response.
Foster an environment where every team member feels empowered to identify hazards, speak up, and contribute ideas.
Coach safe work practices, food safety, GMPs, Job Safety Analysis, and standard work.
Support incident investigations, root-cause analysis, and proactive risk reduction.
Ensure compliance with environmental, health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements, as well as applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Solve problems, improve performance, and use Lean principles to strengthen processes.
Learn the equipment and systems in your area.
Share technical knowledge with the team.
Help manage changes thoughtfully through established processes.
Monitor staffing, material usage, production forecasts, and budget trends.