Production Lead

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Position Title: Production Lead

Position Type: Regular
- Full-Time

Grade: 6A

Requisition : 44360

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences —together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

• Promotes and adheres to company safety rules, regulations, and safe work practices; monitors proper use of required safety equipment by employees.
• Performs regular walk‑throughs of production and packaging areas to monitor operations and ensure compliance with established procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and quality standards.
• Demonstrate knowledge of quality process concepts and techniques; apply them to ensure consistent, high‑quality operations.
• Estimates raw product quantities in receiving.
• Demonstrates understanding of process requirements and ensures operators consistently monitor and control line flow and blend rates in accordance given by supervisor direction.
• Ensures proper container sizing and performs standardized product tests as required.
• Monitors assigned production charts, records packaging machinery efficiencies and downtime, and make authorized adjustments to processing equipment.
• Shuts down production or packaging lines as necessary; notifying maintenance of issues and accurately records downtime.
• Overseeing and verifies the completion of preventive maintenance checks, diagnostic checks, routine adjustments, and cleaning to ensure reliable production and packaging equipment operations.
• Orders packaging materials from storage as needed to maintain production continuity.
• Provides cleaning chemicals to sanitation crews and monitors sanitation activities in assigned areas.
• Communicates product cuts, change information, production changes, packaging changes, and quality concerns to operators, supervisors, and appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
• MDI compliance by reviewing prior‑shift reports, identifying gaps, escalating issues to supervision, and ensuring operator handoffs are complete and clearly documented.
• Partners with operators during CID routes to identify potential equipment defects and provide feedback on route scope, ensuring inspections are effective and appropriately aligned.
• Evaluates and documents the performance of production and packaging trainees at 30, 60, and 90‑day intervals.
• Assumes supervisory coverage and ensures continuity of operations during periods of supervisor absence.
• Participates in required annual, departmental, job‑specific training and monthly informational meetings. .
• Actively lead and verify the timely completion of monthly safety interactions for self and team members to support safe work environment.
• Promotes a positive, cooperative, and team‑oriented work environment across individual work groups, the facility, and the company.
• Monitors and directs tote room activities to ensure efficient workflow and processing.
• Oversees forklift drivers comply with requirements for the proper and timely transport of tote bins.
• Ensures tote tickets are accurately completed and properly attached to each tote prior to leaving the area.
• Identifies and verifies product cuts and quality attributes contained in totes.
• Records tote room efficiencies, downtime, and related operational data.
• Orders cardboard tote bins and pallets from storage as needed to support production demands.
• Coordinates the loading of tote bins into dumpers for processing in accordance with established procedures.

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Ability to read and interpret documents such…