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Manufacturing Team Leader

Lactalis American Group Inc. • Reed City, MI • 14h ago

Reed City, MI (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=121+E+Slosson+Ave+Reed+City+MI+USA+49677) - Manufacturing

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose.

At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity.We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From yourPASSIONto ours

Midwest Yogurt, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Manufacturing Team Leader based in Reed City, MI.

The Manufacturing Team Leader will provide manufacturing leadership to deliver a world-class operation at the Reed City, MI, Yoplait facility. The Manufacturing Team Leader will lead, mentor, and develop employees to achieve outstanding manufacturing results while leveraging continuous improvement tools and working cross-departmentally to troubleshoot and mitigate production inefficiencies.

The Manufacturing Team Leader must have flexibility with their working hours and will be primarily working 8-hour shifts on 3rd shift. Weekends are worked on a rotational schedule with the other Manufacturing Team Leaders and are typically 12-hour shifts (5:00 PM - 5:00 AM Friday, Saturday, and/or Sunday). The Manufacturing Team Leader must be able to flex their hours to 1st, 2nd, or 3rd shift to support plant scheduling needs, complete project work. Proper notice will be given before moving shifts.

From yourEXPERTISEto our

Key responsibilities for this position include:

Educate, develop, and motivate a manufacturing work group to achieve required production results, improving individual technical skills, and enabling collaboration across boundaries

Facilitate, coach, counsel, and guide the manufacturing work group to ensure that they are able to deliver results year-over-year through the use of continuous improvement tools and strategies

Flex hours across 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts (if required) to support plant scheduling needs, to complete project work

Develop and lead projects that will save on costs, reduce waste, improve safety, or improve production/sanitation key performance metrics throughout the plant

Schedule operators and maintenance resources according to plant production needs

Ensure that production facilities and finished products meet the company and government standards for quality, sanitation, and safety

Be an incident commander in the event a pressing safety, maintenance, quality, or production incident occurs. Contact the necessary resources to help manage the incident

Working closely with line teams and supporting department personnel to drive production results, drive out losses, and support R&D or improvement initiatives happening on the off-shifts across all platforms

Requirements

From yourSTORYto ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

2+ years of manufacturing leadership experience

Ability to adjust schedule across 1st, 2nd, or 3rd shifts (if required) to support plant scheduling needs or to complete project work

Experience in troubleshooting technical problems and responding to technical challenges

Demonstratable interpersonal communication and listening skills

Demonstratable analytical and business judgment skills

Must possess basic computer skills or the ability to learn a variety of computer programs

Associate or bachelor's degree in business, finance, or of another technical/scientific discipline

Experience with Microsoft Office programs, SAP, Blue Yonder, Maximo, or other programs/applications typical of a manufacturing environment

Previous food manufacturing leadership experience

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.

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