Production Team Leader (Parksite)

# SUMMARY OF POSITION: The Parksite Production Team Leader (Parksite PTL) leads Process Operators during a designated work shift, oversees operations within the Parksite Operations Department and Parksite Plant Services Department, and serves as the site’s Incident Commander. The role provides direct supervision to ensure effective shift handover, workforce coverage, safe work execution, and stable operations. The Parksite PTL enforces safety, work control, and housekeeping standards; monitors operational, quality, and cost performance; and responds to plant upsets to mitigate risk and restore stable operations. The Parksite PTL coordinates staffing, overtime, training compliance, and resource availability while partnering with maintenance, logistics, and operations leadership to meet production targets. Through active participation in Tier meetings and regular performance reporting, the Parksite PTL drives accountability, continuous improvement, and effective communication across all levels of the organization. In addition to production leadership, the Parksite PTL provides overall direction for the Parksite during off-shift hours, acting as the primary onsite point of contact for tenants, security, emergency responders, and regulatory agencies. This role provides direct coverage to a manufacturing facility that operates 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This role will be required to work a predetermined rotating shift schedule (days & nights) and an occasional off-schedule shift when needed to provide coverage through continuous plant operations. # # MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: # Leadership & People Management - Serve as the Team Leader for the assigned shift ensuring proper carryover of production activities and requirements from the previous shift. - Prioritize and campaign the importance of training to ensure all team members are sufficiently skilled, enabled, and motivated to succeed in alignment with production priorities. - Provide positive recognition to employees. - Monitor, enforce, and ensure employee compliance with all site policies, procedures, and operational standards during assigned shifts. - Monitor, manage, and address employee performance and employee relations issues in partnership with Human Resources, ensuring appropriate accountability. # # Production & Operations Management - Complete daily PTL Reports and make adequate shift relief. - Supervise daily production processes and performance within the assigned unit. - Prepare and deliver regular updates on plant and process performance to Operations Management. - Undertake resource monitoring and coordination to ensure operators are equipped to meet daily and weekly targets. - Manage employee schedule by creating and posting schedules and communicating daily operator tasks. - Enforce employee schedules by monitoring call-ins, tracking absenteeism, and issuing occurrences or applicable corrective actions. - Manage overtime (OT) hours in accordance with contractual requirements, including tracking, scheduling coverage, and entering OT data into the HRIS. - Lead Tier 1 Meetings and actively participate as a member in daily Tier 2 meetings, Maintenance Meetings, and OMC meetings, maintaining open, effective, and collaborative working relationships. - Verify compliance through day-to-day monitoring of key chemical manufacturing metrics including production, quality, costs, and personnel. - Monitor training status in the company’s training information system (LITMOS) and enforce expectations for the completion of training. - Assist Operators with Safe Work Permits, Hot Work or Confined Space, and LOTO Process - Audit and enforce the shift teams’ completion of: operator rounds, LIMS sample documentation, daily operator log, unit checklists, procedure reviews, and procedure checkoffs. - Enforce effective shift-to-shift communication and production activity handover. - Audit and enforce the importance of housekeeping. - Delegate responsibility to operators i…