Extrusion Supervisor, Plastic Film

Accredo Packaging • Sugar Land, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Accredo Packaging is a leading manufacturer of sustainable, high-performance flexible packaging for food, beverage, household, and consumer brands across North America. Through vertically integrated extrusion, printing, lamination, and converting, Accredo delivers premium quality, speed-to-market, and innovative solutions that help customers achieve sustainability and compliance goals. As part of API Group, we’re committed to integrity, innovation, and exceptional service while enabling our customers to reduce waste and improve shelf impact. We are currently seeking an Extrusion Supervisor to join our team. Location: Sugar Land, TX The Extrusion Supervisor supports the Sugar Land Extrusion department by monitoring the extrusion process, driving key performance indicators (KPIs), identifying improvement opportunities, and assisting in the training process. This role also interfaces with Product Development to support product and business development efforts.

Requirements

• Education: 4-year engineering degree emphasizing process management or equivalent work experience.
• Experience: Strong manufacturing experience with proven ability to drive KPIs such as efficiency, waste reduction, and quality performance.
• Skills: Strong leadership and problem-solving skills, ability to analyze data and compose reports, proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Extrusion operation experience is a plus, including familiarity with coextruded blown film extrusion using Polyethylene (PE), Polypropylene (PP), Polyamide (PA), and Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol (EVOH).
• Experience with web handling is required; converting webs is a plus.
• Experience with W&H Varex extrusion systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Monitor QA testing results daily. Investigate root causes for out-of-spec or out-of-control results, drive action to quarantine or non-conforming material as results dictate, and develop and implement effective corrective actions to prevent recurrence. Involve production, quality, customer, and product development employees as necessary.
• Monitor daily production data, specifically analyzing waste and efficiency metrics. Identify improvement opportunities, conduct root cause investigations, and develop and implement corrective actions to improve KPIs such as waste reduction, uptime, and throughput.
• Interface with Product Development to assist with all extrusion trials, including new product development, alternate resin evaluations, and business development samples. Ensure that product meets specifications and all requested process and product data is collected and delivered to Product Development.
• Support Extrusion department training plans in developing operator skills to meet training requirements.
• Provide back-up support for the Extrusion Manager when they are not in the plant.

Benefits

• We offer competitive pay, a well-rounded and affordable benefit package including health insurance and 401k retirement plan with company match, and a great working environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees