Team Leader, Production (Twin Falls, ID)

About Lamb Weston

Lamb Weston is a leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world. For more than 60 years, we’ve produced innovative, inventive products that make life better for our customers and their customers.

Job Description Summary

• The Team Leader Production opportunity develops future leaders here at Lamb Weston. This is a supervisor role where you will help your production team reach target goals, manage day-to-day operations, and will be responsible for identifying areas of improvement in the manufacturing process.
• Our Team Leaders not only receive extensive leadership and functional training, but they are also quickly and frequently promoted throughout Lamb Weston.

Job Description

Leadership

• In the Team Leader Production (TLP) role, you are responsible for managing and ensuring the safety of your production team members, between 15-50 people per shift, and for attaining production and quality goals.

Problem Solving

• Oversee areas of improvement throughout the production process. Team Leaders ensure schedules and goals are met through guiding production resources, materials, processes, and equipment.

Process Improvement

• Support continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost, and customer service. They are responsible for managing and owning various functions of the business and for creating an engaged and team oriented work environment in order to improve business results.

Additional responsibilities may include:

• Monitor production to ensure that quality, productivity, and cost standards are maintained
• Provide team member training to ensure that teams are performing job responsibilities effectively and safely
• Assist with the supervision of sanitation operations as necessary to promote and maintain a clean and food safe environment
• Enforce plant rules, regulations and procedures
• Evaluate team member performance and provide guidance for performance improvement
• Participate in the support of plant and company safety programs by promoting and maintaining a high-level of awareness and adherence to defined employee safety requirements: lock-out/tag-out, personal protective equipment, confined space entry, etc.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelors or Associates degree, minimum 4-years of relevant industry/work experience, or supervisory/management experience is required
• High School diploma/GED required

Required:

• Demonstrated supervisory or leadership experience
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving and organizational skills
• A self-motivated individual that is able to multi-task and lead others
• Must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Preferred:

• Ability to work various shifts (i.e.. Weekdays, weekends, day, swing, grave) based on the scheduling needs of the production site
• Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment is a plus
• Working knowledge of plant equipment and safety is a plus
• Previous experience in a food-processing is a plus

The physical and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands 

• You may be regularly required to stand, walk, and sit
• You may be regularly required to use your hands to handle, feel, reach
• You may be regularly required to taste and smell
• You may be regulary required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• You must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

​Work Environment  

• While performing the duties of this job, team leaders are regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts
• Team members in the plant are frequently exposed to extreme cold; extreme heat and vibration
• Team members are occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate