Warehouse Supervisor

Ring Container Technologies•Indiana, IN

About The Position

The Warehouse Supervisor is responsible for leading production shift operations at Ring Container Technologies, with a focus on employee safety and engagement, product quality and food safety, production efficiency, accurate records, and compliance with company policies and procedures. The role supports a workplace culture that prioritizes employees and promotes communication, active listening, recognition, and employee-led improvements. The supervisor monitors production, equipment, housekeeping, and sanitation; coordinates employee training; addresses unsafe or nonconforming conditions; and maintains production, inventory, quality, attendance, and maintenance-related records. The position also supports food safety and food defense programs, including compliance with GMP, HACCP, and applicable SQFI or BRC standards. The supervisor may be asked to perform duties of an operator, line worker, maintenance mechanic, or forklift driver. Work involves indoor and outdoor conditions, potentially including extreme heat, noise, vibration, moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, fumes, dust, oils, and other environmental exposures. The position requires physical activity such as climbing, bending, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, and repetitive hand and arm movements. Medium work may require exerting up to 50 pounds occasionally, 20 pounds frequently, or 10 pounds constantly.

Requirements

A 2- to 4-year technical degree; military experience may be substituted.
Strong people skills, leadership qualities, managerial abilities, urgency, accountability, business ethics, professionalism, self-motivation, and a desire and focus to improve the business.
Well trained in LN and MS Office software.
Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Ability to report to work promptly and regularly, take direction, work well with others, meet deadlines, concentrate and perform accurately, adapt productively to change, and handle other assigned tasks.
Ability to perform the listed physical activities and medium work, including exerting up to 50 pounds occasionally, 20 pounds frequently, or 10 pounds constantly.
Ability to work in indoor and outdoor conditions and tolerate the environmental exposures described in the posting.

Nice To Haves

Participation in the Safety Committee is encouraged but not required.
May serve on the Problem Solving Team and Management Staff as requested.

Responsibilities

Provide a safe environment for production employees, visitors, and temporary labor, and ensure employees receive regular safety training and use required protective equipment.
Coordinate, document, and maintain safety training; monitor the production floor and equipment for hazards; promptly report and correct unsafe conditions; arrange immediate medical attention following accidents and conduct accident investigations.
Promote the Ring Family Culture by engaging with employees, conducting pre-shift meetings and focused plant walks, listening to employee concerns, recognizing good work, and supporting employee-led improvement teams.
Produce and/or pack quality products that meet or exceed company and customer expectations; coordinate quality training and ensure employees can identify nonconforming products and materials.
Maintain production and packaging material traceability by recording lot codes, labeling or tagging production, and ensuring nonconforming materials and products are held, isolated, and tracked.
Perform quality and downstream testing and measurements, record results, communicate out-of-specification conditions and food safety or food defense issues, and chart and evaluate SPC data.
Ensure employees complete housekeeping and sanitization duties; maintain an organized work area and follow the master cleaning and sanitization schedule to protect facility cleanliness and food safety.
Achieve production efficiency on scheduled machines by monitoring processes and OEE, making justified and documented adjustments, and addressing equipment inefficiencies with maintenance personnel.
Conduct shift inventories and accurately record production, lot information, downtime, scrap, OEE, and other required data in plant documents and LN; complete CMMS paperwork and inventories accurately.
Train production personnel in safety, quality, production, and equipment operation; enforce company policies and procedures and monitor employee activities.
Maintain employee relations and records; review time cards, approve authorized overtime, maintain attendance calendars, manage time-off requests, document corrective or disciplinary actions, and monitor breaks.
Schedule and document regular shift meetings; promote and participate in TPM events and projects.
Answer telephones and greet visitors professionally and courteously.
Support food safety and food defense programs and training in compliance with SQFI or BRC standards; follow GMP, personnel practices, HACCP, and prerequisite food safety programs; prevent foreign material contamination.