Packaging Technician Team Lead

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We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About The Role

The Team Lead is responsible for production operations in certain areas of the plant, which includes Safety, Quality, Service, Cost and People Development. The role carries responsibility for assisting the Team Resource Manager to ensure department Key Performance Indicator’s (KPI’s) are achieved and improvement plans are in place to reach targets.

This role requires knowledge and experience of production management, cGMP/RB quality manual standards, team leadership, EHS application, continuous improvement tools and ensuring all appropriate resources are focused on the delivery of the departments KPI’s

Your responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring production operations are carried out in a safe manner and in accordance with State and Federal regulations including our company policies to follow Hazardous Waste, General Waste and Recycled Waste management and Disposal procedures. Supports Safety, Health and the Environment by complying with company policies and procedures regarding safety and employee conduct.
• Assist in supporting Quality One Change Controls and CAPA investigations on time and in full for department for deviations.
• Utilizing computer management systems such as Doforms, printing case labels, Vorne etc.
• Direct resource and tactical decisions to help improve plant equipment effectiveness and reduce waste within operations with a cost awareness of OEE and labor hours.
• Empowers associates to take ownership for their work processes, improvement plans and to be fully autonomous to ensure KPI targets are achieved.
• Accountable for break escalation to TRM to ensure line stability.
• Assist in production recording in JD Edwards database system
• Assist in production reporting
  
  

The experience we're looking for

• Demonstrable experience in production management, team leadership and continuous improvement tools.
• Strong background in safe work practices with a commitment to safety.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills in a production environment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within established deadlines.
• Excellent organizational & problem solving skills
• Strong personal leadership skills and the ability to lead others.
• Computer literacy, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products.
• Confident, clear communicator in verbal and written format.
  
  

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.