Production Lead

Position Title: Production Lead

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Grade: 6A

Requisition ID: 43140

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences -together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role.

Leads and supports employees in assigned work areas by providing clear directions, coaching, daily guidance and driving team's accountability. Oversee process performance and align team efforts from the start of production through full compliance with operational standards, reinforcing continuous improvement and employee development.

What you'll be doing.

• Promotes and adheres to company safety rules, regulations, and safe work practices; monitors proper use of required safety equipment by employees.
• Performs regular walk‑throughs of production and packaging areas to monitor operations and ensure compliance with established procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and quality standards.
• Demonstrate knowledge of quality process concepts and techniques; apply them to ensure consistent, high‑quality operations.
• Estimates raw product quantities in receiving.
• Demonstrates understanding of process requirements and ensures operators consistently monitor and control line flow and blend rates in accordance given by supervisor direction.
• Ensures proper container sizing and performs standardized product tests as required.
• Monitors assigned production charts, records packaging machinery efficiencies and downtime, and make authorized adjustments to processing equipment.
• Shuts down production or packaging lines as necessary; notifying maintenance of issues and accurately records downtime.
• Overseeing and verifies the completion of preventive maintenance checks, diagnostic checks, routine adjustments, and cleaning to ensure reliable production and packaging equipment operations.
• Orders packaging materials from storage as needed to maintain production continuity.
• Provides cleaning chemicals to sanitation crews and monitors sanitation activities in assigned areas.
• Communicates product cuts, change information, production changes, packaging changes, and quality concerns to operators, supervisors, and appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
• MDI compliance by reviewing prior‑shift reports, identifying gaps, escalating issues to supervision, and ensuring operator handoffs are complete and clearly documented.
• Partners with operators during CID routes to identify potential equipment defects and provide feedback on route scope, ensuring inspections are effective and appropriately aligned.
• Evaluates and documents the performance of production and packaging trainees at 30, 60, and 90‑day intervals.
• Assumes supervisory coverage and ensures continuity of operations during periods of supervisor absence.
• Participates in required annual, departmental, job‑specific training and monthly informational meetings. .
• Actively lead and verify the timely completion of monthly safety interactions for self and team members to support safe work environment.
• Promotes a positive, cooperative, and team‑oriented work environment across individual work groups, the facility, and the company.
• Monitors and directs tote room activities to ensure efficient workflow and processing.
• Oversees forklift drivers comply with requirements for the proper and timely transport of tote bins.
• Ensures tote tickets are accurately completed and properly attached to each tote prior to leaving the area.
• Identifies and verifies product cuts and quality attributes contained in totes.
• Records tote room efficiencies, downtime, and related operational data.
• Orders cardboard tote bins and pallets from storage as needed to support production demands.
• Coordinates the loading of tote bins into dumpers for processing in accordance with established procedures.

What you'll need to be successful.

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months' related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Why You Should Join Our Team:

McCain offers full benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance. In addition, we offer other benefits including:

• 401k Retirement Plan
• Health Spending Account/ HRA & Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption & Infertility Assistance, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Education Reimbursement Assistance
• Apprenticeship, Internship, & Coop support and opportunities
• Employee Family Assistance program
• Paid Time Off
• Holidays
• Life Insurance
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• Short & Long Term Disability

About McCain

Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.

Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.

Compensation Package: - Starting at $30.13 USD hourly + Bonus eligibility + Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support, including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefits details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family: Manufacturing

Location(s): US - United States of America : Washington : Othello

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.