Line Leader

Peoria Production Solutions Job Description

Company Mission: To be the premier employer for individuals with disabilities.

Title: Line Leader

Brief Description: Supervise and coordinate the activities of workers engaged in packing products and material to ensure the end result is up to quality standards before shipment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Observes packing operations to verify conformance to specifications.
• Interprets job work orders to workers and assigns duties.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems or assists workers in solving work problems.
• Monitors worker productivity.
• Motivates workers.
• Controls and implements job assignment/rotation plan for workers.
• Assures materials are being properly handled, routed, and controlled.
• Ensures that safety standards are adhered to.
• Examine work for exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Performs hourly checks on tables and tracks progress of workers.
• Verifies counts on material being packaged.
• Sets scale to determine the number of pieces each container requires for all orders requiring more than 10 items per container.
• Keeps track of scrap, inputs information into the computer, and prints out paperwork.
• Verifies packaging work orders.
• Pays close attention to dates on material in order to determine what material should be completed first.
• Communicates with superior supervisor when problems arise.
• Keeps track of daily labor sheet including part numbers and other paperwork.
• Assigns bags/boxes to material and creates a sample to be checked by a supervisor.
• Assigns table numbers to all material.
• Notifies supervisor when in need of a blueprint.
• Works in the flow of the line, as time permits and needs arise.
• Prints labels.
• Tally up production orders upon completion.
• Audits and closes tri wall.
• Double checks tags on tri wall to be sure they are correct.
• Adjusts paperwork when there are quantity discrepancies.

Strength/Physical Demands:

• Frequent lifting and carrying of up to 20 pounds with occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to be on feet for 8 hours each day either standing or walking.
• Regularly required to bend, stoop, or reach with hands and arms while filling orders.
• Regularly required to use hands to handle objects or tools.

Work Conditions:

• Must be willing to work 40 hours per week.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of production equipment and tools such as electric hand jacks, electric tape machines, hand held tape guns, and heat sealers.
• Skill to work in a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to follow instructions and pre-established guidelines.
• Ability to perform tasks of a repetitive nature.
• Ability to count.
• Ability to complete tasks quickly, neatly, accurately, and carefully.
• Ability to handle pressure of deadlines and stay patient while tasks are being performed.
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with other employees.
• Ability to stay on task and not be easily distracted by surrounding activities.
• Ability to use an RFP gun.

Education/Experience:

• High School Diploma.
• Minimum 1 year experience in a leadership role.
• Minimum 1 year experience working in a production facility or related area.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• PTO
• 403B - retirement plan
• Long Term Disability
• Hospital Indemnity
• Legal
• Accident Insurance
• Critical Illness
• Employer paid Life Insurance
• Employer paid Short Term Disability
• Bonus Opportunities