Team Leader Production

Lamb Weston • Delhi, LA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Lamb Weston is a leading manufacturer in the food industry, inspiring and bringing people together with foods they love and trust. With a customer base in over 100 countries, we are an innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, empowering individuals to make a genuine difference. We offer hands-on training for growth and success, opportunities for exploring new solutions, and a chance to join a winning team of over 10,000 dedicated people. We are looking for individuals with a strong drive for results, a desire to help bring the world together through our fries, and who are ready for a fresh challenge.

Requirements

• Effectively communicates in English verbally and in writing.
• Understands instructions and follow directions in English.
• Reads and interprets documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Writes routine reports and correspondence.
• Speaks effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Computes rate, ratio, and percent and draws and interprets bar graphs.
• Solves practical problems and deals with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Knowledge of manufacturing software, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Outlook.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four-year accredited college or university or three years related experience.
• Completion of internal LW Process Quality (PQ) program.

Responsibilities

• Leads team members to identify, manage, and execute the plant’s process improvement opportunities.
• Manages production staff to attain production and quality goals.
• Identifies problems or bottlenecks in production processes and resolves issues.
• Ensures production resources including materials, equipment, and human resources are available as needed to maintain production schedules.
• Supports continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
• Responsible for managing and owning various functions of the business and creating an engaged and team-oriented work force in order to improve business results.
• Directs the processing activity in the plant which includes supervision of the hourly work force in planning, equipment operation and repair, materials usage, scheduling of operations, training, etc.
• Responsible for the quality, safety and sanitation in the plant.
• Coordinates and implements the planned sanitation and housekeeping program to insure environment meets company and federal standards.
• Trains and supervises subordinates in safety and accident prevention practices.
• Administers plant and human resource policies to assure satisfactory employee relations.
• Works closely with Quality Assurance, Sanitation, Warehouse and Maintenance personnel, as well as other Production Supervisors on shift.
• Assures, in controlling various production operations, steps are taken to remain in compliance with USDA and FDA food laws, company policies, and be familiar with laws that govern the Company's conduct with its employees (EEO, OSHA, etc.).
• Familiar with factors affecting recovery, grade yields, labor costs, labor utilization and material waste.
• Knowledge of the function and basic operating characteristics of each piece of equipment under his/her control is necessary for proper control of quality and grade of product being produced and packaged.
• Recommends necessary adjustments to operators, and makes line settings to maintain the highest level of productivity.
• Responsible for proper training of all personnel and assuring that operators recognize discrepancies and make adjustments and/or repairs prior to any appreciable loss of productivity occurs.
• Supervises employees in the areas of Quality and Production.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Benefits

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
• Paid Time Off
• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
• Family-Friendly Employee events
• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level