Shift Lead - Night Shift

About us

Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances and flavors, cosmetic active ingredients as well as functional ingredients. Its customers include perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of dietary supplements and pet food.

With sales of around €5.0 billion in the 2024 financial year, the company is one of the world's leading providers. The Group, headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, has more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America.

Together with its customers, Symrise develops new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an indispensable part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked.

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Your role Shift Lead
- Night Shift
- Guymon, OK Position Summary

The Shift Lead
- Night Shift provides hands-on leadership for production operations at the Guymon plant. This position coordinates employees, materials, documentation, and production priorities to support the safe, efficient, and high-quality execution of the nightly production schedule. The Shift Lead serves as the primary point of contact during the shift, addresses operational issues, reinforces food safety and quality requirements, and ensures performance expectations are clearly communicated and achieved.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain a safe working environment and ensure employees follow company safety procedures, work instructions, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).

Ensure operations employees are trained in safe food-handling requirements, including GMP and HACCP principles, process steps that may present food safety risks, and the actions required when a risk or deviation occurs.

Ensure employees understand work instructions and complete and submit production paperwork accurately and on time.

Review and validate production documentation against the inventory system and resolve or escape discrepancies.

Communicate production priorities and material requirements needed to fulfill batch and scheduling requirements.

Complete or coordinate inventory and production system transactions, including dispatches, internal transfers, picking lists, raw material receipts, and work orders.

Report system or equipment malfunctions to the appropriate contact, document the issue, and recommend corrective actions.

Take initiative to troubleshoot production issues, determine practical solutions, and elevate concerns when additional support is required.

Monitor shift performance and ensure established key performance indicators (KPIs) are tracked and achieved.

Ensure food safety controls are followed throughout the production process and that deviations are addressed promptly.

Oversee the quality and accuracy of work performed by the production team.

Train and coach employees, provide performance feedback, conduct performance reviews, administer corrective action in accordance with company policy, and participate in hiring activities.

Promote teamwork, accountability, clear shift handoffs, and effective communication across Production, Quality, Warehouse, Maintenance, and other support functions.

Participate in risk assessments for new equipment, process changes, and operational improvements.

Support housekeeping, sanitation, audit readiness, and continuous improvement activities throughout the production area.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical and Work Requirements

Ability to work the assigned night shift, including overtime, weekends, and holidays as business needs require.

Ability to stand and walk for extended periods during the shift.

Ability to occasionally lift and move materials in accordance with site safety procedures and with available lifting…