The Role
Supervise daily production operations, leading teams to meet safety, quality, efficiency, and production goals. Responsibilities include training employees, monitoring KPIs, managing staffing and inventory, supporting maintenance troubleshooting, enforcing safety and housekeeping standards, reducing downtime and costs, and implementing lean continuous-improvement practices such as 5S, Kaizen, and TPM.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Plant Supervisor is responsible for front-line leadership in day-to-day operations of a designated production team, providing guidance and coaching to team members to foster success. This includes ensuring safety, quality, efficiencies, and meeting customer expectations while motivating the team and supporting their professional development.
Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership and training to accomplish production objectives to all employees for Safety, Quality, Production, and Maintenance.
- Supervise production activities to ensure production goals/objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Works with operations team to ensure vacancies are covered for any planned/unplanned absences.
- Monitors shift performance for safety, quality, and production standards.
- Provides production data accurately into system in order to measure and monitor KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) around efficiencies, downtime, inventory and overall production.
- Leads employee start-up meetings.
- Works with other team members to control and improve efficiencies, minimize labor overtime, downtime and repair expenses. Implements cost effective systems around this as necessary.
- Promotes shop floor organization, plant housekeeping with active participation from employees and utilizing lean techniques such as 5S, Kaizen, 7 wastes and TPM.
- Acts as first point of contact for operators regarding mechanical failure or production issues; Directs maintenance employees to troubleshoot mechanical problems and perform preventative maintenance. Overcome challenges and issues preventing the team from accomplishing its goals.
- Participate in conjunction with the Plant Manager in capital improvement or process optimization projects related to the reconditioning line.
- Provides active site surveillance to ensure safety compliance.
- Responsible for training new employees on all areas of production floor.
- Manage inventory of PPE and MRO items for the plant.
- All other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years Plant Supervisory experience within an industrial production setting or manufacturing environment. An equivalent combination of education and experience is an asset.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations management, or equivalent experience.
- Previous experience working in a Lean environment; Embraces continuous improvement.
- Strong organizational skills with experience enforcing and maintaining company policy and programs on the plant floor.
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- Self-directed team player.
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Mauser Packaging Solutions is that company.
Our mission is to help our customers achieve better sustainability with their packaging. And we do that by giving our people the opportunity to do important work, solve interesting problems and be part of a diverse, forward-looking team.
At Mauser Packaging Solutions, you can be proud to work for a company that’s always striving to innovate and serve customers better—and help them be better stewards of the environment.
Whether you’re a seasoned professional—or just beginning your career—there’s a place where you can help make a difference at Mauser Packaging Solutions. Join us!
Mauser Packaging Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years of plant supervisory experience in an industrial production or manufacturing environment
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations management, or equivalent experience
- Previous experience working in a Lean environment and commitment to continuous improvement
- Strong organizational skills and experience enforcing and maintaining company policies and programs on the plant floor
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Self-directed team player
- Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
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The Company
What We Do
Mauser Packaging Solutions is a global leader in solutions and services across the packaging lifecycle, providing large and small metal, plastic, fiber and hybrid packaging worldwide to companies in industries from food, beverage, personal care and pharmaceuticals to chemicals, petrochemicals, agrochemicals and paints.
