Job ID: FC6168001023
Location: Orlando, FL
Category: Industrial & Manufacturing
Employment Type: Permanent
Date Added: 10/23/2026
Production Lead | $25.48 per hour | Direct Hire
What Matters Most:
- Pay: $25.48 per hour
- Schedule: 3rd Shift, start time between 9:00 PM and 11:00 PM, working until approximately 6:00 AM
- Direct Hire
- Location: Orlando, FL
Job Description:
As a Production Lead, you will support supervisors in coordinating daily bakery production while maintaining product quality, food safety, and sanitation standards. You will guide employees through established mixing, baking, finishing, and product-handling procedures to meet daily production needs. This hands-on leadership role includes completing production checks, maintaining accurate documentation, and communicating equipment and employee concerns to management. You will help maintain a safe, organized workplace and support job rotation to reduce physical stress.
Responsibilities:
- Assist supervisors and production management in meeting daily production requirements based on projections and customer orders.
- Ensure employees follow established mixing, formulation, baking, finishing, and product-handling procedures.
- Provide clear direction, training, and motivation to production employees, and report performance concerns or corrective-action needs to supervisors.
- Complete required checks and production records accurately and promptly, and communicate concerns to management.
- Support equipment cleanliness and operating condition, maintain company-issued testing equipment and calibration, and follow food safety, sanitation, and workplace safety procedures.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with basic computer proficiency.
- Ability to guide and motivate employees positively, maintain professionalism, and support compliance with company policies.
- Ability to learn ingredient functionality and mixing and baking procedures, and train employees in these processes.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and perform walking, standing, bending, stooping, reaching, and lifting tasks, including reaching above shoulder level.
- Good hand dexterity for handling products on motorized conveyors and ability to work in production temperatures of approximately 70–90°F, with occasional brief entry into coolers or freezers at approximately 10–40°F. Work may involve exposure to nuts, flour, cinnamon, eggs, dairy, and oven or fryer smoke and odors.
Your New Organization:
Your new organization produces bakery products in a manufacturing environment focused on consistent quality, food safety, and sanitation. Production employees and management work together to meet daily customer orders while maintaining clean equipment and safe work practices. The organization incorporates job rotation into its safety program to help reduce physical stress.
Your Career Partner:
The Reserves Network, a veteran-founded and family-owned company, specializes in connecting exceptional talent with rewarding opportunities. With extensive industry experience, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your professional goals and shine in your field. The Reserves Network values diversity and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. As an equal-opportunity employer, we foster an environment of respect, integrity, and trust in every aspect of employment.
