Associate Supervisor, Production

Menasha Corporation•Philadelphia, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The supervisor will have responsibility for all activities and personnel relating to the equipment that is operating under his/her immediate supervision. The active work centers and number of personnel will vary depending on workload and crew availability. This role involves reviewing daily schedules, ensuring machines are manned properly and safely, and lining up jobs for maximum efficiency. The supervisor will also meet with plant management and scheduling to communicate production information, monitor employees for safety compliance and training, and review material consumption reports. Additionally, the role includes facilitating meetings on Standard Operating Procedures, training employees on the BVP system, updating physical inventory, and approving first-time jobs by examining their function, die-cut, gluing, color, registration, print orientation, flute, and paper combinations against customer samples. The supervisor is responsible for Lean Manufacturing at machine centers, including auditing, holding meetings, and conducting training sessions. They will adjust work center schedules for customer demands, cover machine center overtime when called upon, and schedule overtime as needed. The role also involves scheduling machine clean-ups, assisting with quality control to ensure products meet Menasha's standards, and ensuring maintenance work orders are properly filled out and acted upon. The supervisor will assist employees injured on the job, including determining medical care, documenting incidents, and investigating root causes. They will also provide and maintain training for machine center tasks and Standard Operating Procedures, utilize employee skill sets effectively, and communicate with other departments regarding errors. Finally, the supervisor is responsible for tracking shift production and downtime statistics to verify efficiency, minimize downtime, and meet company goals, while maintaining an active presence on the production floor to provide leadership, motivation, and feedback.

Requirements

Firm knowledge of the company policies and procedures as well as an understanding of the corrugated industry.
Knowledgeable concerning process flow and product quality.
Solid understanding of the impact of quality and efficiency on cost and profit.
Good communication and organizational skills.
Ability to determine when teaching, coaching, and discipline are appropriate.
Good listening skills and the ability to provide positive feedback.
Mature and approachable.
Able to communicate at all levels of the organization as well as with customers during plant visits and trial runs.
Leadership ability and be able to gain respect from direct reports as a result of that ability.
High School graduate or equivalent.
Five or more years as a line leader, machine operator, or previous experience as a shift supervisor.

Responsibilities

Review the daily shift schedule to verify all machine centers are manned properly and safely.
Review work center schedule and ensure the jobs are lined up for maximum efficiency to eliminate unnecessary set-up/down time.
Meet daily with plant management and scheduling to ensure all necessary production/scheduling information for each particular day is communicated.
Monitor employees to ensure that all safety regulations are followed, and ensure all employees complete required safety training.
Review material consumption reports daily to ensure that outside purchased sheets, master packers, and roll stock are being consumed properly by work centers.
Review all shift data entries in SAP system to eliminate errors.
Facilitate meetings with machine center crews to ensure that the Standard Operating Procedures for machine usage are in place and being followed.
Train employees that are lacking in the proper usage of the BVP system.
Update physical inventory on packers when needed.
Approve first time jobs, examining the job for proper function, die-cut, gluing, color, registration, print orientation, flute, paper combinations and, most importantly, whether its function matches that of the customer approved sample.
Responsible for Lean Manufacturing at the machine centers, including work center auditing; holding meetings as needed with 1st, 2nd, or 3rd shift crews to ensure Lean practices are followed; and holding general training sessions in Lean manufacturing for employees that lack this specific skill set.
Adjust work center schedules according to unplanned for customer demands and needs, with the caveat that jobs that are pushed back in the line-up will not harm other customer relationships.
Cover machine center overtime when called upon by the plant manager to do so.
Schedule overtime when unforeseen occurrences or customer demand dictates.
Schedule machine clean ups with plant management as needed.
Assist machine operators with quality control to ensure the product that leaves the building meets Menasha’s specified standard of quality.
Ensure all maintenance work orders on the shift for machine repair, tooling repair or machine maintenance are filled out by the proper employees and then acted upon by the proper department in a timely matter.
Assist any employee that suffers an injury on the job, including deciding upon the proper medical care, documenting the incident and then in turn, investigating the root causes of the incident to prevent further occurrences.
Provide and maintain training for machine center tasks and Standard Operating Procedures as needed.
Utilize the skill sets of the shift employees in the proper manner to ensure the right employees with the proper skill sets are doing the tasks they are best suited to do.
Communicate with other departments when errors occur that effect or alter a job or product, including following through to ensure all errors have been addressed and/or corrected.
Keep track of shift production and downtime statistics to verify that runtimes are efficient, downtimes are minimized and company goals are being met.
Keep an active presence on production floor and provide leadership, motivation, and feedback to employees under their supervision, as well as to ensure the machinery is operating and employees are working at an acceptable level.