Production Team Lead

Requisition

Position Type:
Full Time (US)

Workplace Arrangement: [unspecified]

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

The Production Lead is responsible for promoting safety awareness, producing high quality product, while maximizing daily throughput. They also provide leadership for the employees, while soliciting ideas for continuous improvement.

• Promotes a high level of safety consciousness among shift employees and coaches to ensure company policies and procedures are being followed.
• Assigns safety audits to employees for all areas.
• Initiates incident or near miss investigations.
• Communicates to supervisor or manager follow up and coaching with employees.

• Facilitates operation of the process to ensure high quality products and that current SOPs are being followed.
• Collaborates with quality control technicians to ensure customer quality specifications are met.
• Ensures products are made in sanitary conditions and GMP practices are being followed.
• Assigns GMP audits to employees for all areas.
• Initiates CAPA investigations for out of specification production.
• Communicates concerns with quality to supervisor or manager.

• Reviews priorities with supervisor or manager to ensure on task.
• Assigns responsibilities to shift employees as needed.
• Communicates concerns with meeting tasks.
• Monitors and signs off on production paperwork to ensure accurate records are recorded.
• Looks ahead at ingredients staged to ensure adequate materials for order requirements.
• Forecasts and calculates needs to complete order requirements.
• Operates and understands all job tasks of operations from blending to finished packaging.
• Supports and coaches employees in their job tasks, trains as needed.
• Helps develop new SOPs as needed.
• With guidance from manager, prepares and trains employees on new procedures and changing processes.
• Communicates concerns with employees being able to perform assigned tasks.
• Works as an active operator covering breaks, vacations, personal time and additional lead tasks.
• Documents and collects all daily production information.
• Records DPR data for numbers produced (waste & good), hours towards job, number of employees.
• Passes down detailed report of events during shift.
• Collects all production paperwork, reviews and reconciles raw materials used / finished product produced, turns into shift manager.

• Leads cleaning process during shift.
• Communicates with QC techs to obtain approval of cleaned equipment.
• Ensures items have been completed and signed off.

• Solicits continuous improvement ideas from employees.
• Helps develop action plans to support improvement ideas.
• Evaluates personnel/employee needs and recommends development requirements.

• High school diploma or GED.
• Ability to tolerate physical and environmental demands of position with or without accommodations.
• Ability to troubleshoot and identify issues within the process and use available resources to remedy them.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with manufacturing systems & Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Basic computer skills; team building skills.

• Food processing experience preferred.
• Experience in quality control; strong mechanical aptitude/ability.

Pay range: $19.93 – $30.14 per hour. Kerry offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, Employee Share Plan, life, disability and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

Job posting expires on 1/31/26.

Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.