Supervisor, Manufacturing ​/ Production, Manufacturing & Industrial Operations

Location: Airlee

Job Purpose To use your unique talents, experience, skills, education and enthusiasm to complete the Operations team and to recognize that your contribution is essential to the vision of Ring Container Technologies.

Key Responsibilities and Duties Responsible for providing a safe environment to all production employees, visitors and temporary labor.

Ensure all employees receive regular safety training in accordance with the safety training program.

Ensure all employees and visitors receive and wear protective or safety equipment such as earplugs, hairnets, safety glasses or gloves.

Coordinate safety training with the plant’s safety team coordinator.

Document safety training and file accordingly.

Continually monitor production floor and equipment for unsafe or hazardous conditions; report immediately and make appropriate corrections to repair, replace or quarantine unsafe condition.

Ensure proper medical attention is provided immediately with any accident and perform accident investigation.

Responsible for continuing/implementing the Ring Family Culture in the facility.

Employees are the first priority, production is secondary.

Welcome all employees to the plant every day inquiring about their personal lives and showing that Ring cares about our employees.

Hold pre-shift meetings to explain the day’s needs and concerns and emphasize the importance of safety, not only for the individual but for everyone in the plant.

Manage by walking around during the shift initiating conversations with questions regarding the well-being of the employee.

Catch someone doing something well and praise. Recognize their efforts.

Understand that all employees are people and all of us have challenges. Search for the reason behind the issue, actively listen and resolve to the benefit of all.

Responsible for leading and supporting employee engagement initiatives.

Conduct focused walks semi-weekly through the plant to engage with the employees.

Utilizing active listening skills, ask probing questions that encourage employee input on issues or opportunities related to safety, quality, performance, goals, scheduling, teamwork, etc.,Note opportunities for improvement and potential solutions based on employee input.

Develop strategies that all for employee led teams to implement or ‘try’Provide ongoing feedback to employee led teams and support efforts that lead to improved results, even during times of initial failure.

Celebrate wins and recognize employees participating on successful teams.

Responsible for producing and/or packing the best quality product at all times which meet or exceed company expectations and customer quality expectations.

Coordinate and conduct quality training as required.

Label and/or tag all production, and maintain raw and packaging material traceability by recording lot codes as required.

Ensure all production employees are properly trained to identify nonconforming product and materials.

Ensure all non-conforming products and materials are placed on hold, isolated, and properly tracked.

Perform quality and downstream testing and measurements, and record results in the specified system or form as directed.

Communicate out of specification conditions, food safety and food defense issues to the appropriate personnel.

Chart Statistical Process Control (SPC) data and evaluate for out of specification and out of control conditions.

Ensure production employees perform housekeeping and sanitization duties to maintain facility cleanliness, safety, and product food safety compliance.

Maintain a clean, organized work area through effective housekeeping, sanitization, and waste management practices by following the master cleaning and sanitization schedule to ensure the food safety of materials, products and processes are not impacted.

Proactively resolve housekeeping and sanitization opportunities.

Responsible for achieving maximum production efficiency on all scheduled machines.

Monitor machine processes and ensure any changes are justified and properly recorded.

Monitor production efficiencies and make necessary adjustments to meet and exceed ‘World Class’ Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) standards.

Perform shift inventories…