Production Supervisor (Flexographic - Nights) - Morris Packaging Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55447
About the Job
Position Summary: To contribute to the success of our customers by ensuring daily production line output meets or exceeds the production schedule and quality requirements. This position is also responsible for management of all employees on the floor during their shift including performance, attendance, coaching and corrective action.
Essential Functions:
- Responsible for participating in setting and obtaining production output goals for all machines.
- Enforce optimal line speed and suggest adjustments to personnel placement as required.
- Effectively communicate with incoming and outgoing shifts as related to the optimal running of our production.
- Assist operators in obtaining maximum production throughput with minimal downtime.
- Assist operators in diagnosing complex machine issues. When applicable, work with maintenance, staff, outside contractors, etc. to resolve issues.
- Promote a positive environment among production employees.
- Coordinate all hourly training activities for shift employees in current best practices.
- Proactively guide and assist in troubleshooting of production machine problems.
- Utilize “line stop” mentality when it comes to equipment or quality issues.
- Reports performance issues with production staff to management for further evaluation.
- Respond to “line stop” issues. Assist operators, maintenance, and quality control to correct the issue whether with equipment of quality.
- Demonstrate and train line change over activities making sure they occur in the minimum time with 100% readiness.
- Report continuous or major problems to the manager immediately.
- Troubleshoot line issues as needed.
- Ensure equipment cleaned daily to MPM standards.
- Ensure required production reports and any other required paperwork is completed accurately and by the end of shift.
- Ensure production supplies are in stock.
- Manage employee's attendance and timecard reporting per company policies.
- Conduct 90-day and yearly performance reviews and recommend promotion of personnel as needed for business changes.
- Manage production staffing levels as instructed by management.
- Participate in special projects as required.
- Comply with Safe Quality Food and Safety standards by maintaining a clean and safe work environment.
- Responsible for training new operators.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of MPM quality standard as it relates to production.
- Demonstrate and train all requirements to ensure a high level of quality.
- Proactively interface with MPM's quality department to bring up and resolve
quality issues.
- Ensure all employees are trained and adhering to MPM safety standards.
- Identify, report, and resolve safety issues.
- Provide technical feedback to supervisor and or engineering on improvement to MPM's continuous process improvement.
- Promote a positive environment among production employees.
- Train and provide feedback for all the above.
Competencies:
- Communication.
- Basic forklift operation.
- Technical capacity.
- Record-keeping skills.
- Quality Control Analysis.
- Troubleshooting.
- Leadership and supervision
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, vibration, and cleaning solvents. The noise level in the work environment can be loud. It has a moderate to high demand for tight deadlines. This position will experience moderate interruption in workflow, starting and stopping for product changeovers.
Physical Demands: The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by the employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee is required to see color variance between products, perform tasks requiring manual dexterity, stand for extended periods of time and walk extended distances. Lift 50 pounds to shoulder height. Repetitive motion using wrists, hands, fingers, with the ability to feel and reach with hands and arms.
- Continuous (6 to 10 hours per day) bending, pushing, pulling, climbing stairs, reaching, lifting, and grasping.
- Continuous (6 to 10 hours per day) standing and walking.
- Continuous (6 or more hours per day) talking, teaching, and repetitive motion, hand/wrist movement.
- Frequent (1 to 2 hours) working at a computer terminal.
- Sensory requirements: Good eyesight, normal hearing, and fluent in the English language
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time position. Days, nights, and hours may vary depending on assigned shift and production requirements. This position may require significant work hours beyond the normal workday based on the demands of the business cycle, customer volume of business.
Travel: Travel is not required for this position.
Required Education and Experience:
- Make decisions based on business needs.
- Minimum 5 years in flexible packaging and/or flexographic printing.
- Ability to train employees in all aspects of manufacturing processes with a high skill level.
- Ability to learn and apply processes with a high level of skill.
- The ability to learn and understand reporting software.
- Requires specific knowledge of a production environment.
- A high school diploma or GED is required.
- Troubleshoot complex issues with equipment operation.
- Capable of multi-tasking the operation of production.
Licenses and Certifications: None
Certifications or required class attendance: None
Supervisory Responsibility: This position has supervisory responsibilities.
AAP/EEO Statement: Morris Packaging, LLC. provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
Other Duties: All employees must comply with all company policies including but not limited to those outlined in the Employee Handbook, Safety Manual, and Safe Quality Foods documents.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
PI242744287
Source : Morris Packaging Minnesota