Can Line Production Lead - Safety, Throughput, Coaching

United Salt; Baytown (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

United Salt Baytown, LLC is seeking a Plant Supervisor for its Baytown, TX facility. The role leads roughly 30 employees, drives safety performance, and directs daily production planning to meet schedule, quality, and throughput goals.

Responsibilities include coordinating with Maintenance to improve OEE, handling staffing gaps, and ensuring accurate documentation. The ideal candidate has a technical degree and 5+ years in a high-volume environment, with bilingual English/Spanish as a plus.

Qualifications

• 2-year technical degree or higher required.
• 5+ years in high-volume production/manufacturing/logistics.
• Mechanical aptitude to operate and troubleshoot can line equipment.
• Ability to read, write, and interpret documents.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups.
• Be organized and can plan ahead.
• Spanish language proficiency is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop approximately 30 employees, aligning staffing and performance expectations with safe execution and production priorities.
• Owns department safety performance, including incident prevention, near-miss reporting, corrective-action closure, training completion, and audit compliance.
• Directs daily production planning and execution to achieve schedule, output, throughput, quality, scrap, and on-time completion targets.
• Partners with Maintenance to prioritize work orders, strengthen preventive maintenance, resolve root causes, improve OEE and uptime, and reduce production interruptions.
• Provides hands-on leadership during staffing gaps, changeovers, and breakdowns by safely operating, adjusting, and troubleshooting can-line equipment.
• Maintains accountability for material and finished-goods inventory accuracy, availability, and control.
• Ensures production, safety, quality, workforce, and compliance documentation is timely, accurate, and complete.
• Builds workforce capability through onboarding, cross-training, coaching, skill development, and succession readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Safety compliance

Spanish language

Communication

Excel proficiency

Mechanical aptitude

Education

Technical degree (2-year)

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

SAP

CMMS

Job description

United Salt Baytown, LLC is seeking a Plant Supervisor for its Baytown, TX facility. The role leads roughly 30 employees, drives safety performance, and directs daily production planning to meet schedule, quality, and throughput goals.

Responsibilities include coordinating with Maintenance to improve OEE, handling staffing gaps, and ensuring accurate documentation. The ideal candidate has a technical degree and 5+ years in a high-volume environment, with bilingual English/Spanish as a plus.