Team Leader Production

Lamb Weston

Pasco, WA

About the Role

The Team Leader Production (TLP) opportunity is a supervisor role focused on developing future leaders at Lamb Weston. You will help your production team reach target goals, manage day-to-day operations, and identify areas of improvement in the manufacturing process. TLPs receive extensive leadership and functional training and are frequently promoted.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and ensure the safety of your production team members (15-50 per shift).
• Attain production and quality goals.
• Oversee areas of improvement throughout the production process.
• Ensure schedules and goals are met by guiding production resources, materials, processes, and equipment.
• Support continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
• Manage and own various functions of the business.
• Create an engaged and team-oriented work environment to improve business results.
• Monitor production to ensure that quality, productivity, and cost standards are maintained.
• Provide team member training to ensure effective and safe job performance.
• Assist with the supervision of sanitation operations to promote and maintain a clean and food-safe environment.
• Enforce plant rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Evaluate team member performance and provide guidance for improvement.
• Participate in the support of plant and company safety programs, promoting awareness and adherence to employee safety requirements (e.g., lock-out/tag-out, personal protective equipment, confined space entry).

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Demonstrated supervisory or leadership experience.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• A self-motivated individual 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.

Qualifications

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

Preferred:

• Ability to work various shifts (weekdays, weekends, day, swing, grave).
• Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of plant equipment and safety.
• Previous experience in food-processing.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, and sit.
• Regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, and reach.
• Regularly required to taste and smell.
• Regularly required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• 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: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Frequently exposed to extreme cold, extreme heat, and vibration.
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.
• Noise level is moderate.