Packaging Team Lead

Packaging Team Lead

Help us bring the gift of health to life. Working at Pharmavite is an experience like no other. With a focus on complete nutrition for all, each endeavor is urgent and every day counts. You'll have the opportunity to work on the #1 selling national vitamin and supplement brand, Nature Made, as well as an exciting portfolio of other products that are shaping the future of the healthy living industry.

Consumer-driven innovation, high quality products and a promising portfolio, all driven by a team with a shared sense of purpose -- that's Pharmavite. Join us to bring the gift of health to life.

The responsibility of the Packaging Team Lead is to provide guidance to team members while role modeling our purpose and values so that the team delivers safety, quality, cost, and reliability targets daily. Demonstrates creative thinking to solve issues, ensure critical objectives are met while identifying losses to improve throughput and yield.

Responsibilities:

• Promote a culture of safety within the team ensuring all members participate in BBS/MDSE program and attend the monthly departmental safety meetings, as well as properly use required PPE.
• Effectively lead others, possesses strong problem-solving skills, and has the technical knowledge to troubleshoot production matters related to quality and/or operational issues while meeting deadlines.
• Train mentors and develop team members to enable an agile workforce that is cross-trained on multiple pieces of equipment/processes and functions.
• Lead team to meet or exceed daily shift Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in the areas of Operations Equipment Efficiencies (OEE), schedule adherence, and changeovers.
• Utilizing a continuous improvement mindset, identifies key losses to improve throughput and yield.
• Assist in driving root cause problem-solving with urgency and ensure team uses AM tools such as finding and fixing defects, completion of Clean, Inspect and Lubricate (CIL), and focus on Rapid Change Over (RCO) reductions.
• Facilitate and troubleshoot technical problems to overcome routine manufacturing equipment issues for areas of responsibility.
• Ensure that respective areas and departments are audit ready at any time by utilizing departmental GMP audit scores to effectively improve ratings.
• Responsible for leading and coordinating equipment changeover, work assignments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education:
  
  High school graduate or GED required or 5 years of equivalent work history.
• Certification:
  None
• Experience:
  
  Min 2 years' work experience of increasing responsibility required manufacturing experience in a similar industry preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to lead delivery of required results in Safety, Quality, Productivity and Cost each shift.
• Proficient English ability; required to read/understand written instructions, manuals, and other information; to maintain a variety of written records, and train, employees in a complex process of operating procedures and manufacturing instructions.
• Basic knowledge of the JD Edwards Enterprise One system or other required systems in order to assist in the close out of work orders.
• Utilizes calculator and or computer to perform routine mathematical calculations (addition, subtraction, division, percentages) and maintain various production and cleaning logs in addition to proper record keeping.
• Knowledge of cGMP's, basic safety practices in an industrial environment, and familiarity with production goals and setting performance objectives.
• Mechanical aptitude to troubleshoot and fix equipment malfunctions.

Physical Requirements:

• Stand/walk for most of the work shift. Perform duties that require constant visual attention to manufacturing process.
• Occasionally push/pull boxes/containers weighing from 30 up to 500 pounds utilizing powered industrial trucks or other lifting devices.
• Manual dexterity required to manipulate controls, disassemble/assemble equipment/boxes using a variety of hand tools.
• Frequent bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, twisting, reaching, lifting, keyboarding, squatting and grasping.
• This list in not intended to be all inclusive.

Our

Offer:

Here, career paths aren't predefined, and bureaucratic limitations don't exist -- you have the opportunity to grow, learn from industry pioneers, and develop the way you want to. Pharmavite is investing more in the development of our team -- to help us deliver on our purpose and help you achieve your career aspirations. Our environment is geared to fuel curiosity, encourage experimentation, and generate learning as this is the way we develop ourselves and our organization.

Pharmavite is committed to meeting the needs of our employees and their families with a Total Rewards package that's as comprehensive as the vitamins and supplements we deliver to consumers. With competitive compensation programs and standout benefits, we provide employees with optimal health and well-being -- as well as peace of mind. These rewards -- plus our new recognition…