Operations Team Lead

Montgomery, Alabama

Full time

JR1127643

** Job Description :*
* ** Job Title** :
Operations Team Leader

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* About us:

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* With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world's most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life's moments - from everyday connections to landmark celebrations.

Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other. Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other.

Join us and play your part in making life's moments mean a little more.

** About the team and the Function:*
* Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world.

With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships.

It's fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers' hands, you'll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.

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* About the role:

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* This role is constantly balancing multiple priorities across a number of lines and a large physical structure. There will be a lot of in the moment decision-making that takes place under pressure that affects safety, quality and production. Directly responsible for the overall performance of a shift or that of multiple lines. This role directly manages up to 15 to 25 operators/mechanics across multiple lines.

+ Responsible for managing the day to day production requirements across multiple lines including safety, quality, coordinating staffing assignments, safety activities and departmental budget activities.

+ Provide business leadership to ensure that team meets or exceeds Manufacturing Excellence critical metrics.

+ Drive continuous improvement and total employee engagement in critical success areas by empowering employees to apply Manufacturing Excellence tools and techniques.

+ Optimize efficiencies and reduce labor costs as well as improving through puts while minimizing labor use

+ Supervisory responsibilities are in accordance with company policy and applicable laws.

Responsibilities include:

training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding, disciplining, and motivating employees; addressing complaints, resolving conflict, solving problems, scheduling vacations, and verifying payroll sheets.

+ Ensure efficient production is achieved and standards are met. Optimize safety, quality, production, and cost objectives through employee involvement and team building approach to root cause problem solving and continuous improvement

+ Manage the planning and implementation of key initiatives to improve bottling/warehousing operations.

+ Ensure production databases are properly maintained and information applied for continuous improvement

+ Support all safety and food safety audits and responsible for all corrective action items are completed and all bottling workers understand the goals.

+ Generate ideas and implement changes in processes and use of equipment to increase efficiency, improve safety and quality, reduce costs, and improve employee morale.

+ Adheres to critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals.

+ Relentlessly seeks, shares and embraces ideas and best processes in and outside the Company and embraces change introduced by others.

+ Builds and maintains relationships that motivate, guide, and/or reinforce the breakthrough performance of others toward goal accomplishments. Develops self and others to improve performance in current role and to prepare for future roles; seeks and provides feedback and coaching to enhance performance.

+ Follow Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP), perform tasks per the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS) and follow general housekeeping…