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Mondelez International

Makes cookies, chocolate, gum and candy worldwide

Team Leader

Manufacturing & Production OperationsPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeCuritiba, State of Paraná, BrazilNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience managing people in an industrial environment.
  • Experience in manufacturing, production, or maintenance processes.
  • Knowledge of performance indicators and performance-monitoring routines.
  • Knowledge of continuous-improvement and root-cause-analysis tools.
  • Knowledge of good manufacturing practices, safety, and quality.
  • Availability to work a 6x2 schedule, on a shift to be assigned among the first, second, or third shifts.
  • Completed higher education in Production Engineering, Food Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Business Administration, Industrial Production Management, or a related field.
  • Experience and knowledge in autonomous maintenance Step 4 systems and progressive maintenance Step 3 systems.
  • Ability to independently maintain equipment at basic conditions, including executing autonomous and progressive maintenance standards for breakdown and planned maintenance on dedicated equipment.
  • Knowledge of total productive maintenance and Six Sigma, including qualification of autonomous maintenance steps 5–6 and progressive maintenance step 3.
  • Experience leading line teams.
  • Ability to handle challenging interpersonal situations tactfully and influence people in a union environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the operational team, promoting safety, respect, inclusion, operational discipline, and high performance.
  • Ensure the production plan is met, including volume, quality, yield, productivity, and deadlines.
  • Manage the area's key indicators, including safety, quality, overall equipment effectiveness, productivity, maintenance, yield, losses, costs, absenteeism, and plan adherence.
  • Conduct daily management routines, hourly follow-up, and section performance meetings.
  • Allocate resources appropriately and direct shift priorities.
  • Ensure compliance with good manufacturing practices, food safety standards, and internal procedures.
  • Identify and eliminate losses, deviations, and chronic problems using structured root-cause-analysis tools.
  • Lead action plans, ensuring owners, deadlines, follow-up, and sustainable results.
  • Strengthen the application of total productive maintenance and integrated lean six sigma methodologies, especially autonomous and planned maintenance.
  • Work in coordination with Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Engineering, Logistics, and Planning.
  • Develop employees through feedback, performance follow-up, recognition, training, and development plans.
  • Support change processes, implementation of improvements, new products and technologies, and digital-transformation initiatives.
  • Ensure a clear, structured shift handover that communicates key risks, priorities, and outstanding items.
  • Achieve the safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability, and morale targets for assigned production lines by translating section targets into line and unit targets and ensuring employees understand individual performance goals.
  • Develop budgets and manage cost control, governance and compliance, loss elimination, and workforce planning, including recruitment, retention, development, succession planning, and identification of high-potential team members.
  • Communicate effectively verbally and in writing, with attention to detail.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in the food or consumer-goods industry.
  • Advanced knowledge of total productive maintenance and integrated lean six sigma methodologies, especially autonomous and planned maintenance.
  • Previous experience in technical areas, Engineering, Maintenance, or Automation.
  • Knowledge of lean manufacturing, plan-do-check-act, root-cause analysis, and loss management.
  • Experience with SAP, production-management systems, Power BI, or digital tools.
  • Participation in continuous-improvement projects, productivity increases, loss reduction, or team development projects.

About the Company

Mondelez International

Makes cookies, chocolate, gum and candy worldwide

Mondelez International makes snack foods sold in grocery stores, convenience shops and online from North America and Europe to Latin America, Asia and Africa. Its brands include Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies, Cadbury, Milka and Toblerone chocolate, Trident gum and Halls cough drops. The company runs factories around the world, buys large amounts of cocoa and wheat, and ships finished snacks to retailers and distributors. It earns money by selling these branded snacks at wholesale, and it grows by adding local brands and buying regional bakeries and snack makers. Mondelez took its current name in 2012, when Kraft Foods split off its North American grocery business, and is based in Chicago.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founded
1903

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