Job Description

Position Summary

Leadership for assigned lines: Lead, direct, motivate, and support associates to achieve production goals, assign daily tasks, and monitor performance to ensure efficiency and productivity. Provides frontline leadership to ensure safe, quality production while developing associates and driving continuous improvement.

Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities:

• Assures that all responsibilities are carried out in compliance with applicable legal requirements, as well as company policies, practices, and standards of conduct.
• Coordinate production activities, including operating machinery, processing, packaging, and sorting, while ensuring adherence to production schedules.
• Conduct regular quality checks to ensure products meet company standards and specifications, and implement corrective actions when deviations occur.
• Ensure health and safety regulations are followed, ensure proper use of safety equipment and PPE, and maintain a safe working environment. Ensure that the lines follow the 5S standards
• Identify areas for process improvement, lead and participate in KTA
• Lead Toolbox meetings and Gemba board review
• Provide coaching and training to new and existing associates on production processes, equipment operation, and safety protocols.
• Maintain production records, fill out production boards, monitor metrics such as output, downtime, and waste, and report performance to management.

Work Environment:

• Ability to remain on the production floor, standing and/or walking for extended periods while overseeing operations.
• Ability to work effectively in a manufacturing environment with exposure to noise, moving machinery, and varying temperatures.
• Flexibility to support operational demands, including overtime, weekends, and holidays as required.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 3-5 years manufacturing experience preferred
• Leadership, coaching, and team-building skills with the ability to train and develop associates.
• Clear communicator who leads by example and promotes a positive, collaborative work environment
• Knowledge of production processes, equipment, quality standards, safety requirements, PPE, and 5S.
• Decision-making and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and support continuous improvement opportunities.