Production Team Lead

Company Overview

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Job Description

Compensation: $24.14 to $30.11 an hour - paid weekly

Available shifts: Days 7am to 7pm and Nights 7pm to 7am 2-2-3 Schedule

Job Summary 

The Production Lead supports daily manufacturing operations by coordinating production floor activities while completing essential administrative and reporting functions. This role provides hands-on leadership to packing teams, ensures production readiness, maintains accurate documentation, and serves as a key communication link between production, warehouse, maintenance, and management.  Candidates must expect to work in a one-team environment, where the actual work needed sometimes falls outside the normal job scope.  One Team.  One Novolex. 

Key Responsibilities:

Production Floor Leadership 

• Assign packers and production lines based on staffing standards and schedules. 

• Coordinate lunch and break schedules. 

• Train new packers and support trainer development 

• Reassign work and manage staff during downtime. 

• Ensure production lines are clear and ready for setup. 

• Communicate with warehouse, setup, and support teams. 

• Review daily master cleaning records for completeness. 

Production Administration & Reporting 

• Print and distribute production orders, labels, WIP tickets, and specifications. 

• Compile, enter, and reconcile daily production reports. 

• Maintain accurate staffing file per shift. 

• Investigate and resolve production variances. (Ex. Locate missing printed LPNs at the end of a run) 

• Enter and maintain data in SAP and other systems. 

• Update, Print, and assemble all forms needed to support production. 

• Prepare additional production and efficiency reports as needed.  

• Maintain inventory of finished goods labels, product return labels, and production materials. 

Inventory, Compliance & Support 

• Audit employees for PPE, Safety, and GMP compliance.  Provide direction where needed. 

• Generate Work orders for maintenance tasks needed. 

• Ensure the production lines are staffed to standard.  

• Complete and send the End of Shift Production Reports. 

• Close the shift’s Production in Insight. 

• Ensure all safety incidents are reported to the Supervisor, or Alternate, immediately. 

• Perform weekly GMP/Product Safety Audits with packaging associates and communicate findings to the Supervisor and Quality Lead. 

• Provide backup Supervisor coverage as required.   

• Perform other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications:

Education 

• High School Diploma or GED required 

• Associate degree preferred 

Experience 

• 3–5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment 

• Prior packing and/or production experience 

• Team lead or lead worker experience preferred 

Skills & Abilities 

• Strong organizational and multitasking skills. 

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, SAP, and other systems. 

• Ability to read and interpret production reports and product specifications. 

• Basic to intermediate math skills. 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 

• Bilingual Spanish/English preferred but not required. 

• Ability to work effectively across all levels of the organization. 

• Flexibility to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed. 

Company Benefits

What You'll Get From Us

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.

Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com.

Formerly Pactiv Evergreen

Responsibilities

Compensation: $24.14 to $30.11 an hour - paid weekly
 
Available shifts: Days 7am to 7pm and Nights 7pm to 7am 2-2-3 Schedule
 
Job Summary 
The Production Lead supports daily manufacturing operations by coordinating production floor activities while completing essential administrative and reporting functions. This role provides hands-on leadership to packing teams, ensures production readiness, maintains accurate documentation, and serves as a key communication link between production, warehouse, maintenance, and management.  Candidates must expect to work in a one-team environment, where the actual work needed sometimes falls outside the normal job scope.  One Team.  One Novolex. 
 
Key Responsibilities:
 
Production Floor Leadership 
- Assign packers and production lines based on staffing standards and schedules. 
- Coordinate lunch and break schedules. 
- Train new packers and support trainer development 
- Reassign work and manage staff during downtime. 
- Ensure production lines are clear and ready for setup. 
- Communicate with warehouse, setup, and support teams. 
- Review daily master cleaning records for completeness. 
 
Production Administration & Reporting 
- Print and distribute production orders, labels, WIP tickets, and specifications. 
- Compile, enter, and reconcile daily production reports. 
- Maintain accurate staffing file per shift. 
- Investigate and resolve production variances. (Ex. Locate missing printed LPNs at the end of a run) 
- Enter and maintain data in SAP and other systems. 
- Update, Print, and assemble all forms needed to support production. 
- Prepare additional production and efficiency reports as needed.  
- Maintain inventory of finished goods labels, product return labels, and production materials. 
 
Inventory, Compliance & Support 
- Audit employees for PPE, Safety, and GMP compliance.  Provide direction where needed. 
- Generate Work orders for maintenance tasks needed. 
- Ensure the production lines are staffed to standard. 
- Complete and send the End of Shift Production Reports. 
- Close the shift’s Production in Insight. 
- Ensure all safety incidents are reported to the Supervisor, or Alternate, immediately. 
- Perform weekly GMP/Product Safety Audits with packaging associates and communicate findings to the Supervisor and Quality Lead. 
- Provide backup Supervisor coverage as required.   
- Perform other duties as assigned. 
 
Qualifications:
 
Education 
- High School Diploma or GED required 
- Associate degree preferred 
 
Experience 
- 3–5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment 
- Prior packing and/or production experience 
- Team lead or lead worker experience preferred 
 
Skills & Abilities 
- Strong organizational and multitasking skills. 
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, SAP, and other systems. 
- Ability to read and interpret production reports and product specifications. 
- Basic to intermediate math skills. 
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
- Bilingual Spanish/English preferred but not required. 
- Ability to work effectively across all levels of the organization. 
- Flexibility to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed.