Operations Team Lead - Fixed Term Contract

Title: Operations Team Leader - Fixed Term Contract

*Anticipate 6 month contract with ability to extend

About Us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to build a career worth celebrating.

Which company will you join?

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We're the world's leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It's why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

• Responsible for managing the day to day production requirements across multiple lines including safety, quality, coordinating staffing assignments, safety activities and departmental budget activities.
• Provide business leadership to ensure that team meets or exceeds Manufacturing Excellence critical metrics.
• Drive continuous improvement and total employee engagement in critical success areas by empowering employees to apply Manufacturing Excellence tools and techniques.
• Optimize efficiencies and reduce labor costs as well as improving through puts while minimizing labor use

• Supervisory responsibilities are in accordance with company policy and applicable laws. Responsibilities include: training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding, disciplining, and motivating employees; addressing complaints, resolving conflict, solving problems, scheduling vacations, and verifying payroll sheets.
• Ensure efficient production is achieved and standards are met. Optimize safety, quality, production, and cost objectives through employee involvement and team building approach to root cause problem solving and continuous improvement
• Manage the planning and implementation of key initiatives to improve bottling/warehousing operations.
• Ensure production databases are properly maintained and information applied for continuous improvement
• Support all safety and food safety audits and responsible for all corrective action items are completed and all bottling workers understand the goals.
• Generate ideas and implement changes in processes and use of equipment to increase efficiency, improve safety and quality, reduce costs, and improve employee morale.
• Adheres to critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals.
• Relentlessly seeks, shares and embraces ideas and best processes in and outside the Company and embraces change introduced by others.
• Builds and maintains relationships that motivate, guide, and/or reinforce the breakthrough performance of others toward goal accomplishments. Develops self and others to improve performance in current role and to prepare for future roles; seeks and provides feedback and coaching to enhance performance.
• Follow Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP), perform tasks per the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS) and follow general housekeeping guidelines and rules for Food Safety Regulations. Keep area updated with 5S.

• 4 year Bachelors Degree, preferably in Engineering
• Experience in high speed bottling plant/warehousing operation in a best in class manufacturing environment with GMPs and/or a highly regulated best in class industry
• Thorough working knowledge and demonstrated expertise in all areas of high speed bottling activities, including machine operations, changeovers, start-up, shut-down, package quality
• Proven ability to effect change within a manufacturing environment through diagnosing, designing and implementing solutions
• Knowledge of TTB and State regulations pertaining to the production of alcohol beverages is a plus
• Manufacturing Excellence experience, such as 5S, Center-lining, SMED