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3rd shift - Packaging Line Lead (Plant 3)

Hormel Foods

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Compensation
$23.3/hr
Location
Sparta, WI
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Packaging Line Lead leads and assists personnel in producing quality products efficiently and accurately. The role supports production-line operation, equipment adjustments and startup, work orders, packaging materials, and coordination of line personnel. It also includes training and evaluating employees, enforcing production and safety rules, and following sanitation, manufacturing, and quality procedures.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Organizational Skills, requiredBasic Math, requiredLeadership, requiredMechanical Judgment, required

Full job description

SKILLS REQUIRED

Organizational skills.

Basic math skills.

Leadership skills.

Ability to use mechanical judgment

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE

To lead and assist personnel in producing quality products efficiently and accurately in a timely manner.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. Keep fillers running to maintain line efficiency.

  2. Make adjustments and assist in trouble shooting problems on the line.

  3. Start up all equipment that is pertinent to production.

  4. Receive and prepare all work orders and paperwork required for processing.

  5. Enforce all production and safety rules pertaining to the process.

  6. Follow strict sanitation codes as written by the company for personnel, equipment, packaging, and work areas.

  7. Maintain a leadership role on the plant floor producing high quality products by communicating with the supervisor, warehousing, maintenance, and quality control.

  8. Be sure the correct amount of packing materials are prepared to enable a steady flow in production.

  9. Coordinate breaks and lunches of the line personnel to enable steady production flow.

  10. Make sure all paperwork is filled out completely and correctly before turning it in to the office.

  11. Properly train all employees at each workstation in your production area. This in effect, will help ensure people are rotating positions and decrease chances of injury by repetitive motion.

  12. Train a responsible person to carry on your duties in your absence.

  13. Evaluate personnel according to Century Foods procedures and recommend action to packaging production supervisor.

  14. Follow Century Foods policies, safety rules, standard operating procedures, good manufacturing practices, and ISO 9001 procedures.

  15. Back up for other positions so as to swing breaks or fill in for absence.

Assist in all other duties assigned by supervisor and/or management.

Normal Shift Hours - 9:15 pm - 5:30 am Sun-Thurs OT as necessary

Pay Rate - P4

Starting Rate - $23.30 plus an additional $1.25 per hour shift differential

At Century Foods International we manufacture and market dairy proteins and nutritional products under private label and contract manufacturing agreements for the foods, sports, health and nutritional supplement industries. From research and development in our state-of-the-art labs, to the superior process and service capabilities of our manufacturing operations,

Century Foods is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Requisition ID : 36444

Hormel Foods Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,449 open Production jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$23.3/hr
  • Wisconsin median$21–22/hr30 hourly ranges
  • US median$20–22/hr694 hourly ranges

This rate, $23.30/hr, is 8% above the Wisconsin median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the middle half of Production hourly ranges in Wisconsin.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 60 open Production jobs in Wisconsin and 1,449 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Wisconsin
Experience
Production postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 4 years (472 postings).
Education
76 of the 1,449 open Production jobs (5%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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