Production- Lead Hand

POSITION PURPOSE: 

The Production Lead Hand assists the Production Supervisor in coordinating and overseeing daily production activities. This role involves leading a team of production workers, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently, and maintaining a safe and productive work environment. The Lead Hand serves as a point of contact for team members and helps resolve operational issues as they arise. 

Operations: 

Perform Pre-Operational and Operational Inspections of processing room in the absence of Supervisor. 

Assist Supervisor on delegating or coordinating team member/staff job duties of the day. 

Monitor inventories and supplies and report any shortages, short date and damaged product to Production Supervisor. 

Ensure all products are available in daily production of sandwiches, desserts and other products for the day’s production. Ability to be proactive in preparation of the next day's schedules. 

Check finished product for correct labelling and overall appearance. Oversee the cleanliness and organization/sanitation of production area. 

Maintains a courteous, positive including respectful communication to staff at all times. 

Assist supervisor for team’s ability to meet production goals. Units per hour including team motivation. 

Providing support in flow of first in first out of raw materials on production floor with accurate lot codes.  

Work side by side with team members of sandwich production while mentoring new employees. 

Position may require other job duties and responsibilities as assigned by management. 

Quality and Food Safety: 

Ensures HACCP and SQF compliance. 

Assisting Food Center Manager in internal audit as and when required. 

Maintaining all the QA records for production team as required. 

Performs Weekly/ as required Swab Product Testing and sending samples to designated laboratory for testing. Sending finished product for testing as required by Food Center Manager. 

Performing verification on Metal Detectors during line checks. 

Calibrating scales on a daily basis and recipe weight verification. 

Performing temperature checks for all the areas in production. 

Human Resources & Safety: 

Follows HR practices and procedures for positive discipline. Provides regular motivational and corrective feedback to employees as required. 

Assisting Production supervisor for updating SDS and attending the Health and Safety Meetings Monthly ensuring all Health and Safety Regulations and Requirements are being followed and met daily. 

Promotes and displays proactive, positive leadership qualities to the team. 

Gives direction-guidance to warehouse staff, drivers, on performance, training and positive discipline. 

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: 

Minimum grade 12 or equivalent 

Relative experience 

Lead Hand skills and experience 

Communication skills 

demonstrates leadership  

ability to effectively train other team members 

following policy and procedures 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS/TRAVEL: 

Reading- High School 

Writing- High School 

Math- High School 

Equipment- Fax, copier, wrapping machine, slicing machine, sealing machine, metal detectors, conveyor belts, flow wrappers, hoppers.  

PHYSICAL EFFORT/WORKING CONDITIONS: 

Must be able to work in Cold environment. Must be able to lift a minimum of 20 lbs. to a max of 40 lbs. 

DECISION MAKING/PROBLEM SOLVING/IMPACT: 

Setting priorities 

Schedules 

Resolving product shortages – job situations 

Retrieving information when systems fail/shut down 

Resolving staff conflict and/or reporting to Production Supervisor 

The list of requirements, duties, responsibilities is not exhaustive but is merely the most accurate list for the current position.  Management reserves the right to revise the job description and to require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change (for example, emergencies, changes in personnel, workload or technical development).

If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.