Production Superintendent

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

Title:

Production Superintendent

Location:

Hermiston, OR

Job

Requisition
-271553

Time Type:
Full time

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Accountable for managing plant production activities across multiple shifts and/or departments to produce products that meet established quality, customer service, safety, innovation and cost metrics consistent with schedules and policies. Implements standard work and maintains improvement through sustaining behaviors, operating with discipline and rigor, implementing autonomous maintenance. Oversees the production of quality products to fulfill customer requirements. Controls and effectively utilizes the production capacity, manpower and equipment and outside resources through planning, organizing and scheduling to minimize losses;

works within the framework of the budget to optimize company profitability.

This role will be dedicated for managing plant production activities across multiple shifts and/or departments to produce products that safely meet established quality, customer service, innovation and cost metrics consistent with schedules and policies. Implements systems and standards of work and maintains improvement through utilization of LOC program and sustaining behaviors, operating with discipline and rigor. Oversees the production of quality products to fulfill customer requirements.

Controls and effectively utilizes the LOC methodology and all pillars to lead improvements in production capacity, manpower utilization, production scheduling and loss elimination to achieve plant CBN and optimize company profitability.

• Oversee all shift activities, with area ownership focus to line’s assigned.
• Responsible/ accountable in identifying/correcting potential safety risks.
• Promote safe work practices at all times, participating in safety programs.
• Directs employees for holding safety huddles, safety audits, and participation in safety programs.
• Provide leadership and expertise for efficient troubleshooting/problem solving to maximize reliability / efficiency and minimize loss in all areas
• Demonstrate ownership of the LOC program; provide leadership to various Pillar teams as assigned.
• Provide coaching on LOC principles and behaviors to supervisory staff and hourly employees.
• Identify and implement cost effectiveness work streams.
• Understand Site Loss Analysis (SLA) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS) systems.
• Work with Food Safety Quality to deliver safe and effective clean-ups and efficient start-ups.
• Work with Warehouse Manager and Demand Planning to create cycle run orders to optimize plant efficiencies.
• Work with FSQ to maintain food safety standards and deliver on QIP initiatives.
• Enforce departmental and plant rules and regulations.
• Other duties may be assigned.

• Bachelor's degree is preferred.
• Five (5) to ten (10) years manufacturing experience
• Five (5) years supervisory experience.
• 5-10 years related experience or training
• Knowledge of Microbiology, Food…