Packaging Coordinator

Location:

Royal Canin (Fremont, NE)

The job of the Packaging Coordinator supports the process areas of the plant – Packaging and Warehouse to ensure associate safety, product quality and process efficiency. Provide functional support after normal business hours as a point of escalation for process failures. Steer the Packaging Triad team for improvement activities in the Packaging Department.

• Job:
  Packaging Coordinator
• Shift: Days;
  Monday-Friday

• Education & Professional Qualification
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, or related field, or relevant work experience
  • Packaging/Warehouse experience and knowledge
• Knowledge/Experience
  • Previous experience in food/feed process industry
  • English: read, written, spoken
  • Fully functional Microsoft Office
  • Good communication, Cost conscious, Initiative, Etiquette skills, Self‑motivated, Team player, Safety & Hygiene & Quality conscious, Technically inclined, Unrestricted range of motion, Color discrimination, Olfactory & texture perception, Depth perception, Tolerance to hot environment

• Safety
  • All PPE must be worn in compliance with the OHSA/RC requirements
  • Enforce/Respect the safety rules and the internal policy
  • Stop any equipment / operative works / external company works if safety/environment protection/fire protection rules are broken
  • Support & promote plant safety and health within packaging department
• Environment
  • Guarantee and apply ISO (Environment), and all related working procedures
  • Ownership of environmental responsibilities
• Quality & Food Safety
  • Guarantee and apply ISO 9001, 22000, Mars Standards, and all related working procedures
  • Support development, implementation and maintenance of the HACCP program in the packaging department
  • Ensure GMP-GHP in the area
  • Help update the Flowchart and Hazard Analysis
  • Member of the Food safety team
  • Analysis of results for verification activities, internal and external audits
  • Support implementation, maintain CCPs and oPRPs in the department
  • Train team to CCPs and oPRPs
  • Manage non‑conformities (decide, put on hold, isolate, destruct), analyze for root causes and undertake correctives actions as appropriate
  • Drive food safety improvement activities for the packaging department
• Human Resources
  • Training: attend any training program as scheduled by company management and train any designed person in the position
  • Prepare / Organize / Participate on plant visits
  • Provide coaching where it is deemed necessary
  • Assist Shift Manager to direct Process team workforce
  • Establish program & documents for training & maintain
  • Establish workforce training programs
  • Identify & report cross training needs & opportunities within the packaging department for optimizing performance
  • Participate to the recruitment of new associates
• Management & Responsibilities
  • Identify top losses in the packaging department on a quarterly basis and steer the Packaging Triad to establish focused short‑term and long‑term plans to reduce top losses
  • Partner with Shift Management to identify skill gaps for packaging and warehouse departments, create an effective gap closure plan, and support execution of gap closure plan
  • Provide functional support after normal business hours as a point of escalation for process failures
  • Ongoing activities focus on reduction of mixed kibble by ensuring process adherence and driving improvement activities
  • Communicate with Maintenance, Technical Manager, Operations Manager and operators about equipment deficiencies and corrective actions
  • Lead autonomous work teams in the area to develop autonomous maintenance skills with Packaging Operators
  • Identify opportunities for automating plant processes
  • Champion project coordination with vendors and plant personnel
  • Perform area‑related equipment first level maintenance
  • Work with Operations Manager, on implementing Lean Manufacturing Tools (5S, Hoshin, Poka‑Yoke & Kaizen) to drive continuous improvement
    • Process improvements working in conjunction with Process Engineer
    • Machine improvements working in conjunction with Process Engineer
    • Implementing work order system
    • Qualifying new equipment/processes with Process Engineer and ensure early management of CILs, Centerlines, and 5S prior to…