Manufacturing Supervisor - Weekend Shift - KDC/ONE

• Leads, assigns, and manages the tactical activities of the Production department to achieve the strategic direction established by senior leadership.
• Develop shift team capability and solve problems through close collaboration with engineers, peers, quality, maintenance, warehouse, and planning.
• Trains, coaches, and develops employees within the department to ensure performance expectations and department objectives are met according to established standards, including ensuring all training requirements are met monthly; manages performance expectations, delivers feedback, and maintains high levels of employee engagement ensuring positive employee relations.
• Identifies, leads, and drives opportunities around equipment and/or methods to improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), LEAN manufacturing principles, labor utilization and quality requirements.
• Controls operational costs, including but not limited to standard labor costs, inventory costs, scrap rates and equipment downtime, to ensure the production department operates within the set budget.
• Coordinates with other departments on planning and scheduling production runs, changeovers, preventative maintenance and work order assignments and other related activities.
• Collaborates with the Focused Factory Managers to establish and/or revise Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Work Instructions (WIs) and best practices for the production department.
• Directs and performs all work in a manner that is consistent with the company’s quality system and FDA good manufacturing practices, includes always maintaining a clean and orderly production area.
• Coordinates and participates in root cause analysis on OEE shortfalls. Develops and executes corrective actions that improve equipment performance, cost, quality, and customer service.   
• Follows, promotes, and enforces KDC’s safety and environmental policies, practices, and procedures.
• Assists with safety investigations and corrective actions related to safety hazards and/or incidents.
• Maintains confidentiality of employee personnel records and salary information; customer information (e.g., new customers, products, volume) and company sales and financial information and other sensitive and confidential information.
• Exhibits regular and predictable attendance and works outside of the normal schedule as needed due to workplace demands (e.g., supporting off-shifts).

• High School Diploma, G.E.D or equivalent degree is required. Associate or bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business Management, Operations Management or related field is preferred.  In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 3 (three) years’ experience in a filling/packaging environment is required. 
• Minimum of 2 (two) years of supervisory experience in a filling and packaging environment is required; cosmetics or pharmaceutical experience is strongly preferred.

• Knowledge of: Microsoft Office Suite: FDA Good Manufacturing Practices and OSHA Safety Requirements; SAP or related inventory management system; LEAN manufacturing principles.
• Skill in: pro-actively solving problems and identifying and implementing solutions to prevent recurrence; prioritizing work to ensure deadlines are met; managing, coaching and developing others.
• Ability to: manage multiple and competing priorities; resolve difficult situations with no clear direction; adapt to change; develop and maintain good working relationships and collaborate effectively with others;  lead and develop a high-performing team; develop and maintain processes and workflows; be detail-oriented; communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to a diverse group of individuals; present information to large and small groups;  be organized and work quickly and efficiently with short deadlines; multi-task; read, comprehend and follow written and verbal instructions, including SOPs; work independently and as part of a team; operate a computer and high speed filling production equipment; wear required PPE as needed when working on the production floor.
• Other functions, skills and abilities may apply.

• Must be able to occasionally lift to 50 pounds manually.
• A climate-controlled manufacturing environment; the noise level is usually moderately loud.
• Must be able to sit for long periods of time in front of a computer and stand and walk for long periods of time on the Production floor, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands or arms, stoop, crouch, talk, hear, push and pull.
• Exposure to frequent movement of motorized equipment throughout the facility, including electric pallet jacks, forklifts, etc.

• Manages and directs the work of up to 35 non-exempt employees. 
  
  

We are a trusted, global provider of value-added solutions to many of the world’s leading brands in the beauty, personal care, and home care categories. We partner closely with customers as a critical enabler of their success through ideation, formulation, design, packaging and manufacturing of products.Every year, we help develop and manufacture products for brands sold in countries all over the world. Our Columbus, Ohio division is comprised of three state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities located in New Albany & Groveport, OH. Together, we employ over 1,000 people in Central Ohio from entry-level packing or material handling roles to senior executives and leadership who are experts in their field. Columbus specifically focuses on the personal care industry with a concentration on liquid and alcohol based