Essential Job Duties:
Create and maintain a safety-first culture by ensuring the safety and productivity of all associates assigned to the designated shift.
Maintain food safe environment by enforcing all safety, processing and packaging procedures
Partner with Supervisor to investigate and report all incidents including but not limited to spills, hazards, accidents, unsatisfactory performance, policy violations etc.
Direct and lead line operation to ensure production goals are achieved.
Hold daily communications meeting with crew.
Assign line workers to their position on the line and provide instruction as required. Ensure team and individuals are performing their job functions efficiently and effectively. Rotate line workers into different positions as needed to maintain job skills.
Respond to equipment breakdowns, foreign material events, and safety events. Coordinate with maintenance and involve production supervisor as needed to resolve issues.
Coordinate with other line leads on same shift and handoffs between leads on other shifts
Support DDS Gemba walks and OPEX initiatives
Perform supervisor duties on a as needed basis
Enter safety, quality, and maintenance notifications
Assist in training new associates and coach existing associates.
Perform production start-up and continuous monitoring of the line operation.
Complete daily reporting, report schedule attainment, and enter downtimes
Ability to work overtime as required.
Job Description
The Team Leader position is responsible for overseeing the safe and efficient manufacturing of products produced in the Bakery. Additionally, the Team Leader position is accountable for ensuring that production scheduled for completion is executed in a timely manner and within all quality parameters. Each Team Leader is assigned a line as their primary responsibility but will cross-train for coverage purposes on all four lines. This position must lead by example and work with all associates to deliver team objectives of Safety, People, Quality, Delivery and Cost.
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