Production Worker Lead

Job Description/Objective:

Oversee the production line and production employees. Provide leadership, motivation, and direction to team while working urgently to produce high quality product in a highly efficient manner while adhering to the safety standards.

 

Responsibilities:

• Operate all production machinery in a safe and efficient manner.
• Provide leadership and direction to the production team.  Have a desire to win, every day.
• Perform with integrity, honesty, fairness, and equality.
• Lead team to meet highest quality expectation, without compromise.
• Lead team to adhere to company safety standards.
• Lead team to produce at highest efficiency, each and every day.
• Lead and train line personnel.
• Exhibit ownership over the direction of the production line.
• Communicate and direct the needs of the line to maintenance, lab, and warehouse personnel.
• Lead team and assist with executing and maintaining ISO standard efforts.
• Ensure proper GMP’s.
• Demonstrate initiative and ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Delegate tasks to team personnel
• Lead team meetings when necessary
• Participate in planning meetings with plant leadership
• Participate in coaching of team members
• Participate in management downtime meetings as needed
• Communicate with and motivate team members
• Initiate and communicate personnel and/or mechanical issues with supervisor or manager.
• Ensure daily downtime report is completed with L I S. and T P M and 4 hour sheets.
• Show strong initiative, be self-driven, show a positive teamwork attitude, strong communication skills, willing to work with and motivate others, a desire for top performance, dependable, driven to push line performance, strive to reduce downtime, assist with maintenance issues, and exhibit a desire to learn. Be a self-starter.
• Create and confirm Production Orders in SAP.
• Responsible for communicating temporary employee needs and training new temporary employees.
• Handle incoming/outgoing temporary employee time cards
• Use computer to initiate and update reports.  Utilize email as a communication tool.
• Print SAP Efficiency and Yield Reports.
• Work

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements;

• High School diploma or GED equivalent
• One year similar machine operator experience preferred
• Must be able to work flexible hours and weekends as needed.
• Must be able to become forklift certified
• Must be able to lift 50-55 lbs
• Strong Analytical, Technical, Problem Solving, and Communication Skills
• Ability to visually observe the operations of the equipment and physically address machine   

     problems

• Ability to duck under production line conveyor or climb a flight of stairs
• Ability to work in a non-air conditioned environment with exposure to extreme temperature  

     variations and excessive noise levels

• Ability to stand for long periods of time and move over and around production equipment

     safely.

 

 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.