Shift Lead

CHEP; Pendergrass (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Job summary

CHEP is seeking a dedicated production professional in Georgia to support daily manufacturing operations, pallet flow, and forklift activity as needed. You will work with teams to maintain quality, safety, and on-time shipping, while aligning with site KPIs and policies.

Ideal candidates bring adaptability, teamwork, and strong communication. The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, data entry, and operational excellence in a non-remote, on-site environment.

Qualifications

• Adaptability to changing production needs and schedules.
• Strong computer literacy and data interpretation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for team coordination.
• Empathy and teamwork to support a safe, productive workplace.
• Willingness to experiment with process improvements and learn.
• Numerical fluency for data tracking and KPIs.
• Ability to plan and manage shifts, tasks, and priorities.
• Ownership mindset to complete quality work and meet targets.
• Strong customer-focused mindset to understand internal client needs.
• Clear, professional communication with colleagues and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example within the assigned functional area, offering guidance and support to peers, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring smooth production operations.
• Actively support production activities, stepping in during shifts or breaks to maintain workflow and operational continuity.
• Collaborate with plant administration to ensure adherence to established policies and procedures, promoting consistency and operational compliance.
• Assist Plant leadership in enforcing policies and procedures to maintain inventory accuracy and ensure operational efficiency.
• Act as the subject matter expert for specialized areas, such as forklift operations, pallet sorting, or repair lines, providing expertise and ensuring best practices are followed.
• Fulfill assigned production duties, ensuring quality and efficiency in line with plant performance goals.
• Assists with monitoring and maintaining production KPIs, day-to-day operations, and shipping schedules.
• Coordinate with team members to adjust workflow as needed, addressing immediate operational challenges to ensure site meets production and performance targets.
• Ensures smooth pallet flow from the customer to the trailers.
• May operate forklift and sort as needed.
• Provide hands-on peer leadership to production staff, providing direction when needed, troubleshooting, delegating, and monitoring activities.
• Support site leadership to ensure compliance to established policies and procedures.
• Participate and sometimes lead shift start-up.
• Tracks/enters production data and safety information as needed.
• Responds to carriers via email.
• Enforces policies and procedures to drive quality accuracy.
• Support site leadership with conducting quality audits and inspection of pallets.
• Participate in Safety audits, walks, and general observation of floor activity.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Adaptability

Computer Literacy

Data Literacy

Empathy

Experimentation

Mathematical Literacy

Scheduling

Taking Ownership

Teamwork

Understand Customers

Written Communication

Job description

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our[Hybrid Work Model]https://urldefense.com/v3/ https:/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https3A2F2Fwww.youtube.com2Fwatch3Fv3DA17SyZVJM8826t3D46s&data=04 7C01 7Cdante40sayitloud.us7Cbd0520a38f5b4cf5217908d9e4eacb6c7C2c02d76e40374bffa2b1c104fbb1ce91 7C0 7C0 7C6377925193525846817CUnknown7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0 3D7C3000&sdata=5sr43hFkHrq3lpQyYEY80aZ3n3plQMib95NSRWnCmmw*3D&reserved=0;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!HDu-1JFExg!FoxqXcTulynadywQlhAnaeT17qHc8fKzsePLX5SECcnm3He2vUvGwJ3ux48jDtkusbE$).

Job Description

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead by example within the assigned functional area, offering guidance and support to peers, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring smooth production operations.
• Actively support production activities, stepping in during shifts or breaks to maintain workflow and operational continuity.
• Collaborate with plant administration to ensure adherence to established policies and procedures, promoting consistency and operational compliance.
• Assist Plant leadership in enforcing policies and procedures to maintain inventory accuracy and ensure operational efficiency.
• Act as the subject matter expert for specialized areas, such as forklift operations, pallet sorting, or repair lines, providing expertise and ensuring best practices are followed.
• Fulfill assigned production duties, ensuring quality and efficiency in line with plant performance goals.

Operational Execution:

• Assists with monitoring and maintaining production KPIs, day-to-day operations, and shipping schedules.
• Coordinate with team members to adjust workflow as needed, addressing immediate operational challenges to ensure site meets production and performance targets.
• Ensures smooth pallet flow from the customer to the trailers.
• May operate forklift and sort as needed.

Peer Leadership & Coaching

• Provide hands-on peer leadership to production staff, providing direction when needed, troubleshooting, delegating, and monitoring activities.
• Support site leadership to ensure compliance to established policies and procedures.
• Participate and sometimes lead shift start-up.

Administrative (15%)

• Tracks/enters production data and safety information as needed.
• Responds to carriers via email.

Customer Service, Safety and Quality:

• Enforces policies and procedures to drive quality accuracy.
• Support site leadership with conducting quality audits and inspection of pallets.
• Participate in Safety audits, walks, and general observation of floor activity.

Adhoc:

• Other duties as assigned.

Remote Type

Not Remote

Skills to succeed in the role

Adaptability, Computer Literacy, Data Literacy, Empathy, Experimentation, Mathematic Literacy, Scheduling, Taking Ownership, Teamwork, Understand Customers, Written Communication

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

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