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Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Production Line Lead

Machine & Process OperationUpdated on Nov 2
Full-timeSalt Lake City, UT, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Maintain the work area in a neat, safe, and orderly fashion using Lean Manufacturing techniques.
  • Comply with company and plant policies and procedures, including the facility’s Good Manufacturing Practices program.
  • Follow OSHA guidelines, report unsafe conditions immediately, and validate the use of lockout/tagout procedures and the job rotation program as needed.
  • Follow the production schedule and adapt to changes based on flavor or package-type changeovers; monitor case attainment and respond when production is ahead of or behind schedule.
  • Ensure packaging standards are met, including film, carton, case, code date, packaging integrity, and quality checks for each packaging order.
  • Set equipment to centerline settings, including wrappers, carton closers, carton formers, and jet printers.
  • Communicate, train, coach, and motivate team members.
  • Pass down training information, processes, procedures, company values, and other notifications to new hires, and keep existing personnel up to date.
  • Establish and maintain constructive, cooperative working relationships with supervisors, peers, and team members.
  • Assist in developing standard operating procedures.
  • Develop, maintain, and communicate visual key performance indicators for productivity, quality, safety, sanitation, and housekeeping.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate assigned team members’ activities related to production, food-product quality and safety, team-member safety, housekeeping, production schedules and breaks, line efficiency under the guidance of a Line or Area Supervisor, and communication with production leaders.
  • Handle packing-equipment startup, changeover, and shutdown duties at the beginning, middle, and end of each shift.
  • Fill in for team members as needed due to callouts, vacation, paid time off, and other absences.
  • Load, remove, and off-bear materials and products into machines and equipment using hand tools and moving devices.
  • Communicate with supervisors, peers, and team members by telephone, in writing, by email, or in person.
  • Identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing similarities and differences, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
  • Create daily reports on staffing, production numbers, scrapped material, and issues encountered during the shift.
  • Conduct daily post-operation meetings covering the prior day’s performance and current day’s requirements.
  • Perform other responsibilities as communicated by the supervisor.

About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$27B
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
1911

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