Senior Line Lead, Food Production - 2nd Shift, Benefits

Brezelbäckerei Ditsch GmbH; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 34,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

Life insurance

FSA/HSA

Voluntary life

401k with match

PTO & holidays

Training & development

Job summary

Ditsch USA in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a Senior Line Lead for the food production facility. The role focuses on troubleshooting, process optimization, and line leadership during the second shift, with opportunities for cross-training and plant-wide improvements.

Key duties include developing SOPs, training operators, coordinating trials, and driving productivity while ensuring product quality across lines. Strong technical acumen and collaborative leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Language Skills – Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common industry, production, and technical documents in English. Ability to read, understand and speak Spanish a plus
• Mathematical Skills – Ability to apply basic and some advanced mathematical concepts (Algebra, statistics)
• Detail Oriented—Ability to pay attention to detail and maintain a high level of accuracy
• Reasoning Ability—Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot the most complicated equipment and process issues and help resolve those issues both on a short term and long-term basis
• Interpersonal training and teaching of all operators and supervisors on process deviations and process adjustments to improve product quality
• Specific focus for line three knowledge transfer to the operations team
• Will work as a back-up shift leader in their absence
• Access breakdowns/downtime and work with maintenance and operations to build preventive controls and improve equipment reliability
• Creating a SOP/WI system used to define best practices and consistency with product quality and operating parameters
• Responsible for building recipes and optimizing productivity, efficiencies and total throughput on both lines and each individual product group
• Liaison between operations and maintenance to create trial, test, and design new products from conception to full production including process, machine, and labor capabilities.

Skills

Language skills (English)

Spanish a plus

Mathematical skills

Detail oriented

Reasoning ability

Job description

Ditsch USA in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a Senior Line Lead for the food production facility. The role focuses on troubleshooting, process optimization, and line leadership during the second shift, with opportunities for cross-training and plant-wide improvements.

Key duties include developing SOPs, training operators, coordinating trials, and driving productivity while ensuring product quality across lines. Strong technical acumen and collaborative leadership are essential.