Finishing Shift Supervisor

American Packaging Corporation•Town of Riga, NY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row. It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future. LOCATION: COE Shift - 12 Hour Nights - 2-2-3 Schedule SUMMARY: Directly supervises production employees and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Associate’s degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; with one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
The physical demands described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. This position may require manual lifting not to exceed 50 lbs – reference your department-specific JHA (job hazard analysis) for departmental lifting restrictions.

Responsibilities

Leads safety efforts throughout all departments in manufacturing.
Actively participates in safety programs and makes safety observations, also is a contributing member of a safety team.
Reviews all observations and accepts responsibility for follow up.
Conduct Incident investigations & send out by email before the end of the shift when an incident happens.
Follow up investigation & TOR completed with the department manager within 24hrs.
Accountability for fire drills & tornado drills, where applicable.
Manages & is responsible for operations of assigned machines 24 hours a day.
Housekeeping, implementation & maintaining the 5s program.
Conduct meetings daily with assigned personnel.
Review Safety Concerns, Maintenance Concerns, Production #s, and Customer complaints.
Responsible for evaluating employees assigned on shift.
Look ahead on the schedule & have run conditions for jobs.
Coordinate with maintenance the work orders & PMs.
Facilitate on the job training and instruction for team members on the correct use of tools and equipment to ensure proper safety and operating procedures are followed.
Management representative responsible for all plant operations on off shifts and weekend operations.
Approves color matching for presses on scheduled shift, where applicable.
Strong communication with Department Managers on all process and personnel issues.
Makes decisions concerning troubleshooting and employee issues.
Knows, understands, implements, & enforces plant procedures and policies.
Processes shift reports from production and waste on scheduled shift.
Analyzes production and improves process where opportunity exists.
Sign off on Finishing run sheets ensuring correct specs are maintained and schedule is accurate on night shifts.
Leads teams formed to deal with production, manufacturing and safety issues.
Daily 5s shift audits.
Daily production status report
Ensure Raw Material Rejections have required MFG data to process. Coordinate priorities and efforts of maintenance and the engineers
Inspecting & sign off on all retains & ensure that good quality product is being produced.
Cylinder check sheets.
Adjust crews accordingly to minimize OT but still meet goals.
OK sheets filled out & check off.
Other duties as assigned.