Manufacturing Lead; Crew Lead; 2nd SHIFT; Salinas, CA

Manufacturing Lead (Crew Lead) - 2nd SHIFT (Salinas, CA - Work Street)

Title:

Manufacturing Lead
Salary Range:$27.00 hourly
Status:
Non-exempt
Days/

Shifts:

B Shift, Monday-Saturday

Location:

Salinas, CA

Reports to:

Production Supervisor
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GENERAL DISCRIPTION / PRIMARY

PURPOSE:


Under the direction of the shift or area supervisor, lead the process and equipment setup for production in a safe environment for hourly employees, while producing a high-quality product according to daily production requirements from processing to packaging (PRDIN-PRDOUT).

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS / DUTIES OF THE POSITION:

• Ensure and motivate employees to work together to maintain quality control and high productivity levels.
• Establish good working relationships with all employees.
• Ensure that all production employees are adhering to safety, food safety, GMPs, quality, production policies and procedures.
• Direct production workforce such as but not limited to line crewing-assigning employees to different work areas/job tasks based on daily production requirements and priorities.
• Provide employees with work instructions such as, but not limited to production schedules, blend sheets, raw materials to use. Instruct employees which head items trimming technique to use. Execute proactive and reactive defect mitigation, etc.
• Responsible for the efficient execution of production orders by coordinating the changeover & splitting orders by enforcing teamwork.
• Coordinate break and lunch rotation.
• Meet and exceed all production goals, including but not limited to yields, downtime,schedule attainment,product waste and production schedule attainment.
• Complete routine reports, logs, forms assigned.
• Daily interfacing with quality assurance technicians, production machine operators and maintenance personnel on assigned production lines.
• Maintain cleanliness of production areas and in compliance with GMP and human safety policies and procedures.
• Attend and participate in training. Assign mentors to new recruits or employees in cross training as needed based on individual skills, capabilities and experiences.
• Adhere to Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) such as but not limited to seniority.
• Perform daily attendance check utilizing company provided rosters.
• Daily perform pre-operational safety inspection and submit completed paperwork to the manufacturing supervisor. Ensure that lines setup is done accordingly at the start of shift and perform inspection of work areas and equipment throughout the shift.
• Ensure materials and supplies are available to support nonstop daily line operations.
• Report any food safety/quality incidents, concerns, risks, issues to quality assurance immediately.
• Report any unsafe conditions, acts, injuries, near misses to manufacturing supervisor.
• Ensure operation of equipment by calling for repairs to maintenance.
• Operate manufacturing equipment including but not limited to blending equipment, vision sorters, automated wash/dry lines, non-powered pallet jacks, blending & packaging equipment, etc. Perform adjustments as needed to achieve premium quality with highest raw yields possible.
• Accurately consume raw materials into designated wash orders and blending lines by utilizing handheld scanner. Manually document transactions in Springmix usage log and verify that all transactions went through in business central under batch reporting. keep accurate traceability of raw product used in the blending area.
• Update freshness date during production and the execution of split orders in business central.
• Accurately receive finished product in the packing area by using a handheld scanner and keep accurate accountability of packed products. Execute corrections as…