Packaging Floor Lead-1st Shift
Manufacturing & Production · Production & Assembly · Packaging
In short
This full-time, on-site role in Fletcher, NC, involves providing tactical leadership to hourly teammates on the packaging floor to meet daily production goals and quality standards. The Packaging Floor Lead will also focus on team development, training, and ensuring operational efficiency, acting as a technical expert and problem-solver.
Responsibilities
- Provide day to day tactical leadership to hourly teammates to ensure daily production goals and KPI’s as well as quality standards are met within each work center.
- Develop the team by focusing on individual performance and support requirements to achieve high standards while fostering a culture of working safety, teamship, quality and continuous improvement.
- Responsible for training new teammates on the processes used to perform in their jobs.
- Ensure that teammates have the required resources to be successful at their work, remain focused and productive.
- Act as the technical expert in the department while setting the example for safety, attendance, productivity, and attitude with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Ensure tasks are completed on time and redirect the work force as needed to help in other areas.
- Where possible, resolve any issues or problems which occur in the area. Where appropriate, elevate the issue to more senior leadership.
- Communicate with staff on a regular basis to make them aware of priorities, operational requirements, and shift hand-offs where applicable.
- Report progress updates, key achievements, and any concerns to warehouse supervisors and/or managers.
- Ensure inventories in area of responsibility are accurate.
- Do spot quality audits in area of responsibility.
- Help track the accountability of the department on all transactions.
- Produce regular reports and statistics as required.
- Participate and/or lead in continuous improvement events.
- Provide lead support to work centers as needed due to absenteeism, etc.
- Wear all applicable PPE, as required, at all times.
Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED or equivalent.
- Previous experience in a similar industry
- Has team leader skills with the ability to motivate and develop others.
- Is self-aware with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working with others.
- Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of not meeting deadlines/cost of poor quality.
- Effective communicator at all levels within the organization
- Knowledge of operating systems and equipment used in each department.
- Basic understanding and experience with MS Office, to include Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Must be able to lift packages 35 lbs. or less on a consistent basis
- Should be able to team lift any package greater than 35 lbs. but less than 71 lbs.
- Should be able to handle repetitive twisting, lifting, pulling, pushing, reaching, and bending
- Must be able to spend long periods of time on your feet
Desired Qualifications
- Bilingual encouraged to apply
Benefits
- Supportive environment where we embrace our differences and learn from each other.
- Truly multicultural setting.
- Shape living for the better and create remarkable experiences for employees and consumers, all around the globe.
- Opportunity to work for a leading global appliance company with over 100 years of history.
- Involvement in reinventing taste, care and wellbeing experiences.
- Striving to be at the forefront of sustainability in society through our solutions and operations.
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