Production Lead 3rd Shift

Crown Holdings; Hanover (York County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading packaging company is seeking a Team Leader at their Hanover facility. This role involves overseeing a production team, ensuring safety and quality standards, and coordinating daily operations. The ideal candidate will have significant leadership experience in manufacturing, strong communication skills, and a focus on team performance.

Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Plan with Company Match

Performance Bonuses

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in a leadership role in a manufacturing environment.
• Good decision making skills and ability to present information.
• Knowledge of OSHA requirements and safe working practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate activities of the production team to meet safety and quality goals.
• Conduct pre-shift meetings and provide performance feedback to team members.
• Maintain production reports and manage team staffing requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Team Coordination

Safety Awareness

Education

High School Diploma

B.A. / B.S. or Technical Degree

Tools

AS400

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc., a wholly owned company of Crown Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in the design, manufacture and sale of packaging products for consumer goods. At Crown, we are passionate about helping our customers build their brands and connect with consumers around the world. We do this by delivering innovative packaging that offers significant value for brand owners, retailers and consumers alike. With operations in 36 countries employing approximately 23,000 people and net sales of over $8billion, we are uniquely positioned to bring best practices in quality and manufacturing to our customers to drive their businesses locally and globally. Sustaining a leadership position requires us to build a team of highly talented, dedicated and driven individuals.

Division Overview:

Crown’s Food Division is the number one manufacturer of food cans in the world. Our complete array of food packaging serves a variety of markets, including fruit, vegetables, dairy, fish, meat, ready meals, pet food, infant milk powder and other dry food products. We offer a wide selection of food cans from round to bowl as well as shaped cans. We truly focus on excellence. Here is your chance to join the Crown Food Team.

Location:

The Hanover Plant manufactures 2-piece and 3-piece steel cans for the food industry over 7 shifts. There are approximately 95 employees at the Hanover location.The Hanover Plant is located on Route 194 in York County and is in close proximity to Gettysburg PA, York PA and the Maryland border.

Position Overview:

As a key member of our plant operations, the primary responsibility of the Team Leader will be to lead, d irect and coordinate the activities of the 3 piece Production team (approximately 20 team members) to achieve plant safety, quality, productivity, and housekeeping goals and meet all our customer requirements. This position is scheduled Monday-Friday 11:00pm-7:30am. Overtime is required on an as needed basis.

Job Requirements

Duties And Responsibilities:

• Develop and foster a culture where safety is the first priority. Develop safety awareness through use of daily discussions, joint safety observations, safety audits, incident investigations, recruitment and preventative corrective actions.
• Conduct pre-shift meeting to prepare team members for daily activities. Communicate to all team members the status of equipment, expectations of the team, current activities of the plant, task assignments, and all additional pertinent information. Communicate to management all appropriate and required information.
• Continuously evaluate team member job performance and provide feedback through informal verbal communications and formal performance appraisals. Counsels and/or recommends actions to improve performance.
• Maintain time and attendance records through AS400 system.
• Maintain production reports, equipment data, manning reports, and all required administrative functions.
• Administers team staffing requirements through recruitment and hiring and processing vacation requests, leave requests, absences, and overtime requests.
• Conduct daily can and end construction meeting to review current quality. Continuously monitors the production process, production equipment, process control checks, and team member activities to insure goals of quality and production are achieved. Assist in identifying production problems, participation in equipment troubleshooting, and discovering root causes of quality defects. Direct and coordinate team member resources in corrective actions to resolve production problems. As needed request additional support from plant experts or outside services in resolving problems.
• Coordinate shift activities with the needs of Production Control, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, and Area Coordinators.
• Enforce and administer company policies, plant regulations, and plant norms. Correct non-conformances through coaching, training, or discipline.
• Performs other job-related duties as required or assigned

Qualifications:

In addition to the specific responsibilities listed above, the ideal candidate will possess the following:

• 5 years experience in a leadership role in a manufacturing environment required.
• High School Diploma required.
• B.A. / B.S., Associate or Technical degree preferred.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills (Verbal and Written). Ability to conduct group presentation or confidential conversation.
• Demonstrated experience in the areas of recruitment and selection, training and development, coaching and performance improvement.
• Good decision making skills. Ability to develop corrective action options, evaluates options, select and implement appropriate options.
• Demonstrated experience using computer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) required. AS400 and advanced computer skills (Access) preferred.
• Working knowledge of electric, hydraulic, pneumatics, power transmission equipment, and pump operations. Ability to use this knowledge in effective troubleshooting. Willingness, ability and experience in completing mechanical repair a plus.
• Knowledge of OSHA requirements and safe working practices.
• Strong problem solving skills through an individual and/or collaborative approach
• Ability to work independently or with a team
• Must be able to look at new solutions and “think outside the box”

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms, and may be required to balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The Team Member may lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions:

• Generally works in a plant environment but may be required to perform some job duties inside a typical office setting.
• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicular traffic.
• The Team Member may be exposed to a wide range of temperatures.
• The noise level is frequently loud.

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Crown offers competitive pay, pay for performance bonus, comprehensive benefits including free company paid health insurance for employees as well as company matched 401(k).

This job description is subject to change at any time.

EEO/AA/Vets/Disabled

Travel

Crown is an equal opportunity employer. Crown does not discriminate against any candidate or employee on the basis of race, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.