3rd Shift Raw Ingredient Lead
About Barrett
Located in the heart of central Minnesota, Barrett Petfood develops super premium pet food diets from emerging brands to market leaders in the industry. Our family-owned, nimble execution and continuous innovation takes pet food manufacturing, packaging and distribution to differentiating levels. With a relationship focus and a family feel, we offer many career opportunities throughout our process.
Purpose: Meat Room Lead
Meat Room Leads will be responsible for ensuring that the Meat Room process goes smoothly and efficiently by closely monitoring and supporting their Meat Room team. Leading by example in all areas of Safety, Quality and Performance is a must. This position will be 90% working on the floor and 10% office.
Attributes
- Detail Oriented
- Effective Communication
- Organization & Time management
- Problem Solving
- Interpersonal Skills
- Computer Skills
Responsibilities:
Works closely with the Production Manager on setting weekly plan for all meat room shifts
Drives quality through monitoring and validating that the product is within standards, checking paperwork, and ensuring the product is correct
Review current and future schedule to ensure all raw ingredients are on site
Create record sheets and blend stickers on weekly basis
Document run information and review past job sheets
Update work requests as needed
Supports troubleshooting of equipment to ensure that daily throughput requirements are being met
Communicates Meat Room needs with other Production Manager as necessary
Notifies Production Manager of any Safety, Quality, or Production escalation issues
Guides the team to ensure products are produced in a safe, high quality, efficient, and timely manner
Ensures that all Meat Room personnel are trained according to Barrett standards and follows all safety, quality, and production expectations
Provides team members with valuable feedback on their performance on a day-to-day basis
Displays model behavior and provides clear direction to team members
Looks for ways to improve skills and knowledge for self and team in the department
Helps solve Meat Room problems, looks for lean opportunities to improve processes daily while being a “no excuses” team leader
Respects co-workers in a sincere appreciative manner by having a polite, professional, and positive approach
Assisting in holding employees accountable to performance and quality expectations and rewards with appropriate recognition
Acts with integrity while working effectively with others and communicating appropriately by utilizing active listening skills.
Cover Meat Room Positions at needed
Meat Room sanitation as needed
Required Skills and Minimum Qualifications
- Ability to effectively lead and develop team members
- Conflict resolution skills
- Excellent communication skills with all members of the organization
- Must be exemplary employee providing an example to employees on following policies and SOPs.
- Must be proficient at math
- Computer and data entry skills
- Forklift experience required
- Ability to lift up to 60lbs
Hours: Monday - Friday 10pm - 6:30am
Compensation: $25.50 per hour
Benefits:
Company Paid Medical
Affordable Dental & Vision
Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability
401k with Company Match
7 Paid Holidays
Paid Time Off
Wellness Program
Parental Leave
Free Pet Food
Opportunities for Advancement!
Disclaimer
This job description is not a complete description of responsibility, but reflects the general qualifications, duties and/or responsibilities necessary to perform this position. Barrett reserves the right to revise the job description as circumstances warrant.