Production Lead

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What’s In it for You?

• Stable, growing organization with opportunity for future advancement of qualified candidates
• Competitive pay based on experience and qualifications
• Paid vacation and sick days after one year of service
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits at modest employee contributions
• Discretionary Bonus
• 401k participation with Company matching contributions upon completion of first 30 days of service

Hours:
3rd Shift (Monday - Saturday) 11:00pm-7:00am

Job Requirements

This role is responsible for Safety, Quality, and Production of the plant during assigned shift hours. You will be required to teach, train, and retain employees while enforcing all company policies, procedure, work rules, and work instructions. This involves managing approx. 30-40 employees - including area leads and a mix of full time and temps.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, & Requirements:

• Experience providing leadership, coaching, and training to employees to motivate and retain staff- servant leadership model
• Successful previous experience supervising hourly employees engaged in production, maintenance, and support of manufacturing operations (open to candidates who were Department Lead or Assistant Supervisor)
• Effectively communicating expectations/requirements
• Monitor performance of employees
• Guiding/leading personnel engaged in machine start-ups, changeovers, and troubleshooting production equipment
• Maximizing production efficiencies by allocating people, maintaining support for equipment, and maintaining work flow
• Lead by exhibiting personal commitment to standards of attendance, behavior, policy/rules compliance, safety, and quality
• Assist in production flow, completing rework, and other tasks as necessary
• Maintain employee records (such as performance and attendance), administer counseling/discipline, and maintain production records as directed
• Develop cooperative working relationships with other functional managers
• Meet essential function of reliable, regular, consistent attendance six days/ week
• Hands-on practical experience injection molding and blow molding (Husky, Sidel, One Blow, Sipa, Flex Blow, Bekum, Uniloy, Nissei, Aoki, Stretch Blow Molding or similar) of rigid plastic containers, is a plus