Line Lead

Mondelez España Galletas Production SLU; Golden Horseshoe; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food manufacturing sector is seeking a Production Line Leader to oversee a high-speed production line. The ideal candidate will ensure safety, quality, and cost targets are met while leading and developing a team of operators. This role requires strong leadership skills, technical knowledge, and the ability to communicate effectively. Join us to help deliver high-quality snacks to customers and drive continuous improvement in our operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1-year supervisory experience in manufacturing required.
• Prior technical experience in processing and packaging in food manufacturing desired.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety, quality, cost, delivery, and morale goals are achieved.
• Supervise and work with operators to meet production targets.
• Lead the development of work practices promoting autonomy and accountability.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Conflict Management

Attention to Detail

Education

Supervisory Experience

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

This role helps ensure the sustained continuity of technical mastery and line leadership in manufacturing, by leading a key line of the business (technical, system or organizational) to deliver results defined by the compelling business need of the site. You ensure that key business results are achieved and for developing others to ensure the sustained continuity of technical mastery on the manufacturing line. Using a systematic approach, you use strategic thinking skills to ensure results are sustained over the long term.

How you will contribute

In your likely first managerial role, you will ensure that Mondelēz International’s safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets are achieved for the lines for which you are responsible by breaking down section targets into line and unit targets and ensuring that employees understand their individual performance goals related to the overall targets. In this role, you will also develop budgets and be responsible for costs control management, governance and compliance, loss elimination and workforce planning, including recruitment, retention, development, succession planning, and the identification of high potential team members. Without you, we would not be able to deliver high-quality snacks to our customers.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Autonomous maintenance (AM) Step 4 systems and progressive maintenance (PM) Step 3 systems
• Maintaining equipment at basic conditions independently, including the execution of AM & PM (break-down maintenance, planned maintenance) standards on dedicated equipment
• Total productive maintenance and Six Sigma including qualification of AM steps 5-6, and PM step 3
• Leading line teams
• Handling challenging interpersonal situations tactfully
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and a good attention to detail

More about this role

Production Line Leader (Supervisor)

Reporting to the Line Manager and Process Engineer, the Line Leader is responsible for upholding excellence on a high-speed production line in a food manufacturing environment. The Line Leader is responsible for supervising and working with operators on the line in order to meet production targets and uphold the highest quality standard.

Line Leaders are responsible for the day-to-day manufacturing operations on a designated line. The Line Leader provides leadership, direction, development, and support to line operators through empowerment, teamwork, on-the-job assignments, and continuous improvement initiatives. As a Line Leader, you will be responsible for the supervision of an hourly workforce, providing direction, leadership, and helping the development of your team members.

Line Leaders are the backbone of Mondelez. Without your dedication, hard work, positive attitude, and leadership, there is no product for the customer to enjoy.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide information and direction to your team to achieve safety, cost, quality, delivery, and morale goals.
• Ensure relevant OSHA regulations are fully complied with, including personal protective equipment, fall protection, forklift and hazard communication requirements.
• Thoroughly investigate all accidents and complete accident report on the date of occurrence.
• Follow and administer Quality Policies and Procedures including food safety, HAACP, POGS, traceability, and production hold investigations.
• Maintain high standards of Good Manufacturing Practices and housekeeping in the department.
• Drive to achieve the lowest cost. Achieve cost goals for line, shift, and facility.
• Partner with maintenance personnel to improve efficiency and UPTIME in the line.
• Ensure that all department employees are properly oriented and trained.
• Evaluate performance and recommend areas of improvements as appropriate. Accountable for employee’s performance management, attendance tracking, training documentation, and coordination of overtime.
• Lead the development of work practices that promote autonomy and accountability at all levels.
• Support operators to troubleshoot equipment if an error is encountered
• Participate in change-over and sanitation activities along with Line Operators
• Facilitate the accurate assessment of performance and implementation of ideas.
• Work across departments including production, continuous improvement, maintenance, quality, and finance in order to ensure process sustainability tools are understood and utilized regularly, with a focus on employee understanding and application of these tools.
• Ensure that mixing, forming, baking, and packaging processes are aligned to drive process and product sustainability.
• Develop and update these process sustainability tools as needed, with an emphasis on enabling process owners to own tools in their respective areas.
• Responsible for establishing ownership of document accuracy on the floor and the process to ensure they are updated and match team site documents.
• Engage and coach employees on process sustainability best practices, including home settings, run rules, one-point lessons, and deviation forms. Get feedback from employees on the floor on a regular basis to assess understanding and application of best practices. Adjust plans accordingly depending on employee feedback.
• Participate as a member of a focus team and leverage process check information to improve process sustainability.
• Evaluate and assess employees to determine training needs and develop employees to improve their knowledge and application of process sustainability tools (e.g. home settings, run rules, deviation forms, checklists, and one-point lessons).
• Establish procedures for consistent start-up, shutdown, and clean-up of each process.
• Partner with the continuous improvement department in order to develop strategic and tactical plan and ensure alignment with annual operational objectives.
• Responsible for leading his/her team to run production on the line while ensuring that Safety, Quality, and Cost targets are met
• Responsible for leading his/her team to follow all safety guidelines, good manufacturing practices, and quality systems by being the role model for his/her team to follow
• Responsible for leading his/her team to use predefined center lines in order to produce within product specifications
• Responsible for leading his/her team to perform the predefined quality tests on the product and package while running production in order to guarantee compliance to our quality program
• Responsible for leading his/her team to identify defects on equipment using abnormalities tags, correct the right type of defects, and communicate to the maintenance department the types of defects that can’t be corrected by operators in order to maintain the integrity of equipment and sustain production
• Responsible for leading his/her team to perform on the equipment the predefined cleaning, inspection, and lubrication tasks as scheduled in order to maintain the integrity of the equipment and sustain production
• Responsible for leading his/her team to perform the standard operating procedures for start-up, shut-down, and clean-up on the various equipment on the line
• Responsible for leading his/her team to identify areas of opportunities for improvement, define action plans, and implement Kaizens
• Responsible for leading his/her team in increasing their troubleshooting skills and on the equipment and processes in order to promote the culture of autonomous operational teams
• Responsible for leading his/her team to perform all change over and sanitation procedures as predefined in order to complete them with the minimum possible DOWNTIME

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1-year of supervisory experience in manufacturing is required
• Prior technical experience in processing and packaging in food manufacturing is desired
• Computer skills in Microsoft word, excel, power point, and outlook is required
• Prior experience in lean six sigma is desired
• Exceptional English communication (verbal and written) skills required
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to influence without authority is required
• Demonstrated skills in conflict management and fair management practices is required
• Demonstrated ability to lead and provide direction to teams is required
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop teams is required
• Must be able to work any shift, weekends and overtime as needed

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.