Supervisor - Production

ProAmpac•Rosemount, MN

12d•Onsite

About The Position

ProAmpac is hiring a Production Supervisor at its Rosemount, Minnesota facility. The supervisor oversees the first shift, which may work up to 50 hours per week, and is responsible for production performance, product quality, waste, safety, equipment upkeep, employee development, and completing the production schedule. The role coordinates production handoffs and materials between shifts, works with the Production Planner and Customer Service, and helps ensure jobs meet specifications and customer expectations. The supervisor also leads staffing and personnel actions, coaches employees, responds to customer complaints, and promotes safe, productive operations.

Requirements

Ability to perform each essential job function satisfactorily.
Ability to balance and achieve positive results in safety, quality, productivity, cost, and employee relations.

Responsibilities

Oversee implementation of procedures and monitor quality, production, and waste.
Conduct plant walkthroughs with supervisors between shifts to discuss issues and urgent items.
Maintain goals for machine production, quality, waste, plant safety, and cleanliness.
Complete final approvals for daily production runs and confirm job specifications on runs in process.
Coordinate routine machine maintenance checks, arrange repairs, and write maintenance work orders when needed.
Communicate production schedules established by the Production Planner to the previous and following shifts.
Monitor and track daily attendance for employees on the shift.
Check the unavailable roll stock report daily.
Implement and maintain employee training programs.
Apply company handbook and collective bargaining agreement policies and procedures, and enforce them when necessary.
Complete employee performance reviews in a timely manner.
Conduct monthly safety and quality meetings with employees.
Verify completion of daily housekeeping tasks and oversee other departments when their supervisors are unavailable.
Oversee production equipment and maintain its upkeep.
Work with Customer Service to answer questions about production capabilities.
Review new jobs for appropriate specifications and whether the department can run them.
Assist operators with maintaining and adjusting equipment.
Research opportunities to improve operational efficiency, including potential new equipment.
Develop, implement, and monitor operating methods and procedures to resolve operating problems and improve product quality.
Analyze bags in response to customer complaints, draft resolutions, review corrective measures with work crews, and educate crews on quality standards.
Attend supervisors' meetings with the Plant Manager to discuss complaints, quality, monthly goals, and other concerns.
Assess staffing needs and initiate personnel actions such as promotions, transfers, discharges, and discipline.
Complete accident reports and arrange medical treatment for employees when necessary.
Ensure materials are staged for production for the incoming shift.
Build teamwork and develop employees by coaching them across work areas.
Plan, organize, and execute the assembly plan to complete the schedule on time and in full, supporting customer service.
Inspect work areas and employee behavior for unsafe acts or conditions and take corrective action.
Balance safety, quality, productivity, cost, and employee morale to achieve positive results.
Supervise employee hiring, retention, performance reviews, and discipline.
Perform other duties as assigned.