Plastics Lead

Over 450 of the world's most extraordinary brands are part of the Sazerac family, including BuzzBallz, Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, Fireball, Svedka, and more. We're proud to create spirits, cocktails, and experiences for every taste and occasion for people across the globe. Sazerac Company takes pride in fostering a vibrant culture of innovation, craftsmanship, and excellence across our distilleries and operations worldwide.

As a Plastics Lead, you'll help lead daily operations within the Plastics Department to ensure safety, quality, productivity, and production targets are met. You'll provide hands-on direction and support to employees, help coordinate startup activities, ensure equipment and materials are ready for the shift, and use problem-solving tools to address issues and reduce production losses. This is a great opportunity for an experienced plastics or manufacturing professional who enjoys leading by example, developing others, and helping a production team perform at its best.

D (Rotating) Schedule: Thursday–Saturday | 36 hours
Wednesday–Saturday | 48 hours 

What You'll Do

• Lead and support assigned employees throughout the shift to achieve daily safety, quality, productivity, and production targets.
• Conduct shift startup meetings and Tier I meetings while ensuring production paperwork, checklists, and other required documentation are completed accurately.
• Ensure the assigned production area has the proper equipment, materials, supplies, and resources needed to operate effectively throughout the shift.
• Provide hands-on coaching, training, and day-to-day direction to employees, including temporary team members, while promoting a safe and productive work environment.
• Identify and address production, equipment, quality, and staffing issues using problem-solving tools while supporting continuous improvement and the department's zero-loss objectives.

Required

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in plastics, blow molding, manufacturing, production, or a related environment.
• Previous experience providing day-to-day direction, training, or leadership to employees in a manufacturing or production environment.
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and make decisions in a fast-paced production environment.

Preferred

• Previous experience operating or working with blow molding equipment or plastics manufacturing processes.
• Experience leading production startup meetings, Tier meetings, shift handoffs, or similar daily manufacturing processes.
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Six Sigma, root cause analysis, or other continuous improvement and problem-solving tools.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and safely perform hands-on work in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods and frequently bend, kneel, squat, reach, push, pull, climb stairs and ladders, and move throughout the production area during a 12-hour shift.
• Ability to work safely around moving mechanical equipment in a loud, hot, humid, and industrial manufacturing environment while wearing required PPE and hearing protection.