Converting Supervisor - 3rd Shift

Pratt Industries’ is looking for an experienced Converting professional with Supervisor experience to join our team!

At Pratt Industries, we care about our employees by providing secure jobs, a safe work environment, and many supportive benefits. By investing in employees, we are able to offer growth opportunities to build a thriving, lifelong career.

• Plentiful opportunities for growth and learning
• Stable employment in an environmentally-conscious, flourishing industry
• Hands-on management
• Becoming a member of the Pratt family - a company that truly cares

The Converting Supervisor is tasked with supervising a Converting crew of around 13 people in the daily routine of producing quality board in a safe, productive manner with minimum waste.

• High school diploma or GED
• 2 years in supervisory or managerial role
• Corrugator experience, perferred

• Maintain quality, efficiencies, and production levels set by management and communicate these standards to your staff.
• Establish high morale within your department by showing fairness, consistency, and an interest in employee problems.
• Maintain inventories of rollstock and converting supplies.
• Coordinate with your supervisor and Maintenance Superintendent on any repairs or preventive maintenance done in the department.
• Keep upper management informed of problems or situations that may affect the performance of your department.
• Enforce the corrective action procedures when applicable and conduct meetings with the violating employees
• Conduct weekly Production/Safety meetings with department personnel
• Improve career skills by enrolling yourself in seminars, technical courses, and related college courses.
• Implement, maintain, and support all company policies and procedures, including safety program and good housekeeping.
• Additional duties may be assigned by management.

• Leadership Skills
  • Time management
  • Crisis management
  • Teaching, training, and coaching
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Employee relations
• Language Skills
  • Able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
  • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
  • Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees
• Mathematical Skills
  • Able to read a tape measure with speed and accuracy.
  • Able to calculate figures and amounts such as percentages, measurement, volume and rate.
  • Able to apply concepts of high school math.
• Technical Skills
  • Equipment design and capabilities that can be translated into efficient operation. This also supports the supervisor's role of teacher and trainer for his/her personnel.
  • Cost issues in order to make daily decisions that will reduce overall costs and will help the supervisor find areas that require improvement.
  • Quality standards
  • Regulatory requirements including but not limited to wage and hour requirements, environmental and waste minimization, company policies, and personnel requirements including OSHA, DEQ and EEO.
• Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations
  • Required to have a clamp truck license

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.