Forming Lead

Job Summary:

The Forming Lead is responsible for ensuring the productivity adherence to our forming area.  This position monitors production forming to ensure that quality, productivity, and safety standards are maintained.  Provide employee training to ensure that employees are performing job responsibilities effectively.  Assist the supervision of staff operations as necessary to promote and maintain a clean and food safe environment.

Essential Job Functions:

• In charge of the forming area in terms of management of staff, management of production and quality targets and to ensure the smooth running of the production processes.
• Directs, controls, assists, and trains employees assigned to a specific area, looking out for safety, and adherence to GMP’s, and communicates and delegate tasks to team members per Supervisor’s instructions.
• Responsible for the quality and product that is produced within the shift in line with the companies’ quality systems, processes, and procedures.
• Operates machinery, equipment, tools in a safe and proficient manner according to standards, guidelines, and instructions and assigned machinery speeds.
• Assemble/Disassemble machines for use or change overs.  Ability to properly lubricate all moving parts to prevent damage due to friction.
• Interacts with maintenance on production equipment to trouble shoot or discuss preventative maintenance to prevent production down time.
• Maintains down time records, delivers, inspects, and performs all activities required of other members of the area, line, or team.
• Must be able to read and understand product weights, scales, and thermometers.
• Must be able to read and understand product specifications established by Shine Foods and recognize deviations from those specifications.
• Performs clean-up activities as assigned.
• May be assigned other duties by plant management as required.

Food Safety Responsibilities:

• All employees are required to immediately report and assist in the elimination or control of any food safety issues they observe to their supervisor
• Monitors and enforces cGMPs
• Follow all Good Manufacturing Practices and Pre-requisite programs 

Language Requirement:

• Ability to understand written and oral direction in English and/or Spanish.

Physical Requirement:

• Occasionally carry and/or lift 50 Lbs.
• Must have the ability to routinely and frequently stand, stoop, bend, climb, fill raw material into machine.
• Ability to walk through production areas.
• Must be able to work in a loud environment. 
• Vision abilities include close, distance, peripheral, and depth perception.
• Wear proper footwear

Supervisor: Shift Supervisor 

Schedule: 

• 1st shift
• Occasionally be available to work on weekends 

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Job Type: Full-time