Team Leader Production

About Lamb Weston

You've probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start‑up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You'll gain access to hands‑on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

This individual leads team members to identify, manage, and execute the plant's process improvement opportunities. Manages production staff to attain production and quality goals. Identifies problems or bottlenecks in production processes and resolves issues. Ensures production resources including materials, equipment and human resources are available as needed to maintain production schedules. Supports continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost and customer service.

Responsible for managing and owning various functions of the business and creating an engaged and team‑oriented workforce in order to improve business results.

• Identify problems or bottlenecks in production processes and resolve the issues.
• Provide resources to position the team for success, including materials, equipment and human resources as needed to maintain production schedules.
• Facilitate collaboratively on continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
• Oversee various functions of the business and maintain an engaged and team-oriented workforce to improve business results.
• Function as a good corporate citizen, a partner in improving our sustainable responsibilities, and a supporter of the local community.
• Participate in a training process that develops new Operations Team Leads into leaders capable of taking on future advancement opportunities within our growing company.
• Help lead, teach and foster our World Class Safety/Wellness Culture, which helps us recruit and retain a talented workforce.
• Help team members develop personally and maximize self‑work to identify, manage, and execute the plant's process improvement opportunities.
• Empower the talent of production staff to attain production and quality goals.

Supervises 20‑30 employees in the area of Production. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation for this unit. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, procedures and applicable laws. Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four‑year college or university; or three years related experience.

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in…