The posting
The Packaging Lead will coordinate daily with Production Supervisors, Machine Operators and employees producing or packaging the finished product to ensure quality and efficient processes of product.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Monitor production and packaging teams during production activities to ensure adherence to ethics and safety procedures.
- Evaluate manufacturing equipment for safety and functionality.
- Ensure that products and goods manufactured meet quality standards obtainable in the industry.
- Motivate packaging and production teams to enhance production quantity and at the same time maintain high production standards.
- Check finished products to ensure quality, and that industry standards are met before they are declared ready for use.
- Keep records of personnel performance.
- Keep records of equipment, budgets, deliveries, and supplies, and make them available to management for evaluation.
- Create work schedule for team employees and ensure that they strictly adhere to it; take attendance to ensure regularity and promptness.
- Work as middleman between packaging team and management to create healthy communication.
- Develop production schedule for the execution of projects in a timely manner.
- Ensure that work materials are present when needed.
- All other duties as assigned
- Basic mechanical works experience
- Must be safety cautious
- Ability to give directions to team members
- Have good time management skills
- Possess strong interpersonal skills to relate with all members of the team
- May be required to stand for long periods of time and involve some repetitive motions
- May also engage in frequent bending, stooping, squatting, pushing, and pulling of parts and part containers, lifting up to 50 lbs
Safety & Food Quality:
- Report all safety incidents that occur in their area of responsibility
- Behaves and encourages others to behave safely
- Comply with BRC, HACCP and GMP policies, procedures as well as FDA and USDA regulations
- Continuous Improvement: Continuous feedback from plant leadership on job performance and improvement areas
- Gluten Program Adherence
- Comply with all hygiene, environmental, health and safety requirements as laid down in policy and as trained
- Responsible for maintaining good hygiene within the business unit line with regulatory, company and customer requirements



