Lactoferrin Production Team Leader

Production Team Leader Opportunity at Glanbia

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey!

The Opportunity

As a Production Team Leader, you will oversee daily production operations, coach and develop hourly employees, identify and implement process opitmization projects. Provide the leadership that ensures all employees on shift can improve and sustain a zero loss work culture that drives out injuries and ensures products are safe and meet quality specifications. Manage all aspects of shift plant operation ensuring budget, output, and continuous improvement by engaging all employees.

Essential Functions

• Assist management in ensuring plant productivity, quality, and safety standards are met.
• Maintain plant safety programs to ensure the safety of all employees and products.
• Utilizes GPS processes, driving zero losses and upholds the culture of Glanbia non-negotiables
• Coordinate production within budget parameters.
• Ensure all plant employees are responsible and accountable to maintain Glanbia GMP and site standards which include FDA, USDA and Idaho state standards.
• Ensure product quality and food safety by ensuring plant employee’s sustains quality systems. ( HAACP, SQF, SOP, GMPs)
• Schedule and coordinate shifts and employees’ work schedules.
• Conduct audits to ensure employees are performing tasks according to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Perform inventory checks and sampling.
• Coordinate, with logistics, warehouse and shipping.
• Provide performance coaching to and development of hourly employees. 
• Ensure troubleshooting capabilities are developed with all operators and maintenance personnel.
• Liase with maintenance department in developing preventive maintenance schedules, and make decisions regarding emergency maintenance.
• Ensure adherence to production schedule.
• Conduct employee meetings, supervise production workforce and assist in employment resolution.
• Demonstrate professionalism in verbal and written communication and in behavior. 
• Complete TL Standard work lists and tasks each shift
• Ensure equipment is operated according to centerline control and reporting process
• Report out on plant performance as part of daily review and staff meetings.
• Perform hourly employee PDP process and provide feedback periodically on performance, including disciplinary and attendance occurrences.
• Provide performance coaching to and development of hourly employees. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a hard science preferred but not required; a minimum of three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

• Ability to prioritize tasks, handle multiply projects simultaneously and delegate assignments to others.
• Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
• Intermediate personal computer skills, including electronic mail, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.
• Must complete Glanbia’s Team Lead certification program.

Typical Physical Activity

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly involves talking or listening, standing and walking.
• Frequently involves sitting, and the use of hands and fingers.
• Occasionally involves reaching with hands and arms, crouching, stooping, kneeling and/or climbing or balancing.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to lift and carry items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items, works with the fingers, and perceives attributes of objects and materials.
• Involves moderate physical activity performing somewhat strenuous daily activities of a primarily product/technical nature.
• Specific vision requirements for this job include close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less); distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point); depth perception (three-dimensional vision,  ability to judge distances and spatial relationships); ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).

Typical Environmental Conditions

• May be exposed to loud noise, humidity, heat, fumes, chemicals, moving mechanical parts, elevated work areas, and electrical shock risks.

Travel Requirements

• Minimal travel limited within the local area.

Where and How You Will Work  

This opportunity is based at our Gooding, Idaho site. Shift options available: Day

What We Would Like to Offer You 

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.

About Glanbia  

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.