Plastics Lead

Job Description/Responsibilities

As a Plastics Lead, you'll help lead daily operations within the Plastics Department to ensure safety, quality, productivity, and production targets are met. You'll provide hands-on direction and support to employees, help coordinate startup activities, ensure equipment and materials are ready for the shift, and use problem-solving tools to address issues and reduce production losses. This is a great opportunity for an experienced plastics or manufacturing professional who enjoys leading by example, developing others, and helping a production team perform at its best.

What You'll Do

• Lead and support assigned employees throughout the shift to achieve daily safety, quality, productivity, and production targets.
• Conduct shift startup meetings and Tier I meetings while ensuring production paperwork, checklists, and other required documentation are completed accurately.
• Ensure the assigned production area has the proper equipment, materials, supplies, and resources needed to operate effectively throughout the shift.
• Provide hands-on coaching, training, and day-to-day direction to employees, including temporary team members, while promoting a safe and productive work environment.
• Identify and address production, equipment, quality, and staffing issues using problem-solving tools while supporting continuous improvement and the department's zero-loss objectives.

Qualifications/Requirements

Required

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in plastics, blow molding, manufacturing, production, or a related environment.
• Previous experience providing day-to-day direction, training, or leadership to employees in a manufacturing or production environment.
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and make decisions in a fast-paced production environment.

Preferred

• Previous experience operating or working with blow molding equipment or plastics manufacturing processes.
• Experience leading production startup meetings, Tier meetings, shift handoffs, or similar daily manufacturing processes.
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Six Sigma, root cause analysis, or other continuous improvement and problem-solving tools.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and safely perform hands-on work in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods and frequently bend, kneel, squat, reach, push, pull, climb stairs and ladders, and move throughout the production area during a 12-hour shift.
• Ability to work safely around moving mechanical equipment in a loud, hot, humid, and industrial manufacturing environment while wearing required PPE and hearing protection.