Operations Team Leader

Tonganoxie, KS

Join an exciting opportunity to be part of a brand new, highly automated facility for Hill's Pet Nutrition! The Operations Team Leader [OTL] position will participate in start-up activities, setting systems, developing materials and supporting onboarding processes for future recruitments. This position impacts and influences the overall culture, employee relations, and performance of a manufacturing facility and its ability to align with the company’s core values and initiatives. The incumbent is responsible for demonstrating personal leadership, effectively managing production activities and resources for a specified manufacturing area, to deliver business results and drive continuous improvement, while maintaining positive employee relations.

The primary accountabilities of the role include driving (individual/ employee and) team development and performance, daily production schedule adherence, customer service, area financial performance, implementation of Operational Excellence initiatives (EHS, Quality, FP&R), and Employee Relations.

The OTL achieves success through collaborative partnerships with Supply Chain and leveraging FEED principles.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Communicates and implements the local Supply Chain vision, mission, strategy, and objectives
Empower teams by way of training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, appraisals and delegation, to ensure the development of people, skills, teams and organizational capabilities.
Accountable for adhering to Colgate-Palmolive/ Hill’s standards and governmental regulations related to the area of responsibility for EOHS and Quality
Accountable for Operational Excellence (EOHS, Quality, FP&R) activities of the production area to deliver high levels of service to internal and external customers
Manages the people, materials, and equipment by the active presence on the shop floor to achieve the daily production schedule and deliver area KPI's
Reads and analyzes KPI’s, charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
Responsible for time management and data entry for team members into Kronos payroll system
Provides indirect leadership for plant supporting roles (Maintenance, Quality, Automation) to ensure successful daily operation. Also ensures collaborative relationships with Leaders of employees in supporting roles.
Leads and coordinates the activities of Operation Staff engaged in the production to increase innovation, technical expertise, analysis, and problem solving skills
Identify actions to minimize financial variances associated with materials, finished products and other components of the plant’s conversion cost including labor cost and operating supplies
Support execution of new technology within the production area
This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology or Business related field
Minimum of 2 years of experience managing and leading teams in a manufacturing environment
Demonstrated strong written and verbal communications skills,
Coaching and feedback skills

Preferred:

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
5+ years’ experience in manufacturing Food Related Production
Working knowledge of production and process equipment, preferably in a processing industry such as food, chemicals or pharmaceuticals
Ability to establish a specific course of action to accomplish goals through appropriate allocation of time and resources
Project Management Skills
2+ years experience in performance analysis and reporting including Statistical Process Control
Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple initiatives and manage in ambiguous situations
Proficiency with Google Suite collaboration tools (G-doc, sheets, slides, etc) or Microsoft Suite (Work, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.)
Knowledge of SAP systems

Equal Opportunity Employer