Production Supervisor

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Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations.

Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better.

We are seeking an experienced Production Supervisor for our First Quality facility located in McElhattan, PA.

This position is responsible for leading all production team members on crew (and all plant team members on off hours, nights and weekends) and managing company assets to safely maximize production of excellent quality product.

Principal Accountabilities/ Responsibilities:

• Follows and ensures accountability for all safety rules and policies and drives a culture of personal responsibility and keeping each other safe.
• Follows and ensures accountabilities for all necessary GMP, FDA, and ISO regulations.
• Monitors workflow and coordinates production with appropriate departments.
• Plans production schedules to ensure maximum utilization of equipment and team members.
• Participates in Daily Operations Meetings (DOM).
• Ensures proper communications and plans to shift support and crews.
• Verifies communication of process changes and quality procedure/specification changes.
• Submits work requests to correct issues that can be resolved by Support Teams.
• Demonstrates and verifies 100% compliance of safety best practices with team members (PPE, LOTO, cleaning, no jewelry, loose fitting clothing, etc.).
• Monthly – Safety Committee Meeting attendance.
• Quarterly – safety observations, safety training in the LMS, safety audits, & crew emergency response meeting.
• As needed – safety incident reporting & related follow up action items.
• Understands and models the values and culture of the company.
• Serves as a positive team player that works to find solutions and builds team morale.
• Participates in monthly development meeting with Production Manager.
• Leads, coaches and mentors all direct team members and indirect support teams to achieve goals and successful execution of the production plan on the shift.
• Leads cross-company teamwork and collaboration.
• Drives execution on completion of tasks.
• Partners with Production Manager and Technical Trainer to schedule and support skills training and individual development of team members.
• Evaluates/verifies technical skills of team members to identify skill gaps and training needs; offering guidance and coaching to team members.
• Thinks critically and acts strategically.
• Evaluates team member work assignments & optimize where necessary.
• Champions change to grow the business.
• Verifies all production specifications and packaging requirements.
• Leads a robust asset management and housekeeping program that shows respects for the incoming shift by ensuring the necessary cleaning best practices are planned and completed (general housekeeping, area blitz cleaning, down-to-do cleaning, hot spot cleaning, etc.).
• Follows escalation plans to prevent poor performance/high scrap and verify support teams are being contacted and verify flow…