Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.
Want to help us make a difference?Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.The Production Shift Team Leader will report to the Refinery C/D Department Manager at Roquette America's Keokuk plant site. This position with 24 hr / 7 day shift work coverage is based at our Keokuk corn-wet milling and bio-refinery facility and requires interaction with both Salaried and Union workforce.Description: The Production Shift Team Leader will be responsible for supervising the bargaining unit shift of the assigned production area to ensure safe actions, environmental compliance and quality production in a Good Manufacturing Practice food-grade operation. This position requires candidates to demonstrate excellent operational leadership, clear communication skills, strong people development and coaching abilities, and experience in nimbly managing short term activities and longer term projects.
Main Responsibilities- Lead shift production activities to ensure actions result in safe, compliant and quality work achieving scheduled production.
- Implement or provide support for projects and programs to improve safety, compliance and quality performance.
- Lead shift operations activities with clear, consistent communication.
- Technical troubleshooting as needed.
- Plan within the department and/or interdepartmentally to maximize efficiency. Participate in the maintenance planning process and initiate maintenance requisitions to achieve quality and performance targets.
- Plan and coordinate to assure that production is aligned with customer's needs and that customer orders are produced and shipped right the first time.
- Achieve targeted production efficiencies, yields, volumes and material usage.
- Execute improvement projects for reliability, yield, and rates and/or to reduce fixed and variable costs.
- Implement and maintain sound process controls through computer-controlled systems and operators.
- Direct, train, and monitor on-shift employees as to the knowledge, understanding, and compliance of all policies and procedures.
- Conducts regularly scheduled shift meetings and leads to inform, communicate, listen, and react to suggestions and concerns.
- Develop production employees through training, coaching, evaluation and administering personal performance reviews.
- Lead adherence to established policies, procedures, programs, principles, and the bargaining unit contract.
Qualifications• BS degree in Chemical Engineering prefer or equivalent experience• 1-3 years' experience in a food and/or chemical continuous processing plant desired or engineering new graduate• 1-3 years leadership and/or supervisory experience desired, with 3-5 years supervisory experience preferred• Previous experience in a chemical processing plant or sugar processing plant preferred• Demonstrated sound, assertive, positive leadership skills, as well as strong and effective coaching skills• Demonstrated clear, informative and persuasive (verbal, written and presentation) communication skills• Demonstrated experience in project execution, with project management experience preferred• Effective organizational and planning skills with the demonstrated ability to multitask• Working understanding of chemical unit operations of food-grade processes desired
If you identify yourself in this position, please apply by uploading your resume and let's start the journey together !Roquette is proud to be a global company where you can find personal and professional growth through multiple diverse experiences. Roquette believes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion must be woven into everything we do, from the products we make, through the relationships we build with our partners, and most importantly within the teams we create and how we interact together.As we continue to grow, Roquette understands that to be successful we must always be inclusive in our approach, by creating a workforce that represents the world we live in, and the communities and customers we serve.To find out more about our products, values and sustainable development ambitions visit us at www.roquette.com and at www.sustainability.roquette.com