Pro Resources is seeking a Production Team Leader for a client in Plymouth, IN! The Production Team Leader oversees, monitors, and coordinates production team activities, giving importance to individual member's and overall team's achievement of established goals. Ensures team's goals are aligned with and representative of the overall company's directive. Acts as liaison between team members and the rest of the organization. Apply Today!
Shift and Compensation
Job Duties
- Supervises the overall department to accomplish daily production requirements, safety standards & quality standards are maintained.
- Maintains the integrity of the current Quality System through enforcement of the Food Safety and HACCP program
- Assures proper materials, lot numbers and quantities are used according to recipes & stickers are applied to paperwork for traceability and inventory integrity.
- Will demonstrate proper PPE, safety requirements of tasks performed using proper lifting, pulling, pushing and asking for and giving help when needed.
- Lead will ensure all SOP’s, Procedures, WI, including but not limited to the actual task, Allergens, GMP’s etc. are followed and understood.
- Ensures that raw materials are available in a timely manner to meet the day’s production plan/schedule.
- Assigns tasks through rotating schedule to ensure cross training for each team member
- Ensures all CCP’s are understood and recorded on the appropriate forms.
- Lead ensures all quality checks are performed & recorded including but not limited to Brix, pH, conductivity, cenco, temperature, and pressure checks.
- Ensures sanitation/cleaning tasks are performed in a satisfactory manner and are completed daily
- Ensures equipment and environment are understood by all employees which can include, Lock out tag out (LOTO), Optimal processing (centerline), safety requirements, etc.
- Communicates with Logistics & preprocessing operator for timely supply of ingredients to the kettles.
- Checks pouches after packaging to ensure proper seal, inkjet print is correct, and temperature is correct per SOP.
- Responsible for monitoring of all paperwork within the production department, (ex) KPI’s, CCP’s, consumption, WIP/UPR, Pre-ops, checklists, etc.
- Ensures annual and daily tasks are trained and understood by all employees on shift.
- Ensures process areas (Processing, kettle’s, drippers, and packaging) are achieving throughput required.
- Coordinates and communicates with all departments associated with any type of production needs to accomplish set goals.
- Ensures that the areas and team members are in a GMP compliant environment, uphold master sanitation and standardization of cleanliness is kept.
- Conducts new hire training in all aspects of Production, Sanitation, Quality and Safety.
- Turns in documented trained forms once operator training is complete.
- Ensures SOP’s, procedures, work instructions and OPL’s are used, understood and followed.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Shift Lead or Supervisor.
- Monitors employee mannerisms and coaches on them on how to work safely and best practices.
- Offers continuous improvement ideas when possible.
- Follows Day Plan/schedule & Shift Lead direction on proper cooker cleaning, chemical cleaning, sterilizing of lines. Cleaining of lines may occur at week end, quality issue or mechanical issue etc.
- Monitors cleaning day assignments and inspects area for compliance; moves people around as needed to ensure all areas are addressed.
- Monitors all COP cleanings and verifies with documentation sign off.
Background Profile
- High School Diploma/GED
- Related manufacturing or processing experience and/or training or any equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
- Lead or supervisor experience.
- Computer literacy is required.
- Mechanical abilities are desired.
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