Printing - Cell Lead; Continental D Shift

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Printing Shift Supervisor, the Cell Leader coordinates the activities of resources in the assigned cell, ensuring the team meets quality, delivery, and productivity targets. They must know daily expectations, monitor status throughout the shift, make adjustments, and provide technical support required to hit targets.

• Coordinate activities, overlapping with previous or next shift to understand unusual circumstances, scheduling issues, and ongoing problems.
• Assist Group Leader with assignment of personnel at the start of the shift, identify labor shortages or skill issues, ensure machines run through shift change.
• Assist set‑up operators in CM&R or quality inspection/machine adjustment as required.
• Re‑assign personnel as required, set‑up operators for CM&R, press operators to cover breaks and lunches on high priority presses, technician to priorities.
• Conduct quick walk around the area, checking each press for issues.
• Respond to downtime issues by dealing directly/calling technicians as required, escalating problems that exceed 30 minutes.
• Schedule jobs in the correct sequence on the Daily Machine Scheduling & Attainment board.
• Check and authorize job starts and fill out the Line Inspection Sheet.
• Update cell production report with downtime information.
• Update the scheduling board at the end of the shift, totaling all the appropriate columns.
• Submit the Cell Leader report.
• Never compromise safety; treat fellow team members with honesty, respect, and dignity.
• Meet standards of conduct.
• Perform hourly audits of presses checking for:
• Adherence to quality procedures; jobs running at job card speed; proper use of Kanban card; ahead/behind status; adherence to standard work; adherence to HSE/HACCP/SQF/5S.
• Identify training opportunities for Group Leader.
• Actively participate in problem solving.
• Provide technical assistance to operators as required.
• Train team members on cGMP's food safety and quality procedures.
• Assist with new job approval tasks and associated documentation.
• Backup for Group Leader; backup for this position is the designated Set‑Up Specialists or Press Operators.

• Educational Requirements:
  
  High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum Experience:
  
  5 years as press operator.
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Fluent in English with good written and verbal communication; good interpersonal skills.
• Skillset:
  Press operating, tear-down, wash, set‑up of printing presses; able to run all lid and base presses; leadership qualities; ability to coordinate multiple activities simultaneously; diagnose printing problems and initiate corrective action; work with frequent interruptions.

• Treat fellow team members with honesty, respect, and dignity.
• Ability to give concentrated attention for long periods of time.
• Uses sound judgment to make good decisions.
• Adapts to changing work environments, priorities, and organizational needs.

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