Production Manager

ALPLA is a global, family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oreal, Pepsi, and more. Alpla values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation, and sustainability.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program
  - Benefits
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs;
  Promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
• Medical, dental, vision plan
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short-term, long-term, and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

What Will You Enjoy Doing

• Ensures and reinforces the exercise of the health and safety program
• Oversees daily production
  -Supports engineers to ensure machines run efficiently
  - Ensures profits are maximized

• Develops production schedules
  - Plans, directs, and assigns duties of manufacturing personnel
  - Authorizes overtime, as necessary, to meet production goals

• Analyzes and interprets data received daily and prepares management and financial reports
  - Analyzes and interprets data received daily and prepares management and financial reports
  -Invenenes to the production floor when issues are detected in real-time. Manages production issues
  - Prepares production figures for daily meetings
  -Complies month-end reports

• Troubleshoots & solves production problems
  -Manage production issues
  -In charge of issues that are being solved and tracked
  - Reports crucial process problems to the Plant Manager & Directors

• Management of the Production Department
  - Organizes and conducts meetings with Supervisors regularly
  - Recruits (with HR) new employees
  - Ensures efficient shift hand-over and feedback of past shift performance
  - Prepares Shift schedules
  - Performs disciplinary actions
  - Oversees all production training
  - Provides a continuous feedback culture with all production team members
  - Performs annual Performance Evaluation
  -Monthly meeting with the OPEX team
  • Know how level/trainings
  • Overall understanding of various ALPLA IT/MES Systems
  • Assess training needs of staff and ensure execution of training (Equipment, Product, Processes, and IT/MES Systems

• Ensures all employees follow procedures
• Revises existing and implements new procedures

What Makes You Great

• Min 2-year Degree (Associates) in related field or equivalent, Bachelor's Degree preferred,
• Technical / Engineering background
• 3 to 5 years of experience in a management position in production, preferably within the plastics industry

Qualifications/Skills:
-Thorough understanding of Health and Safety practices
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Strong leadership skills
-Technical understanding (Manufacturing and IT)
-Strong knowledge sharing/training skills

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or
balance, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.

• The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, and talk and hear.

• The employee is occasionally required to sit.

• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up
to 30 lb,s and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to
all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #Salaried #DAY

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to…