Production Supervisor

Imagine: A Career with Purpose and Possibility. Picture this:
You are part of a global team of problem‑solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real‑world challenges. You are part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.

At Tekni Plex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, Tekni Plex Healthcare and Tekni Plex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care. Here, your ideas count and your work matters.

You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact. Because at Tekni Plex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.

Tekni Plex is hiring a Production Supervisor for our Van Wert, OH facility. This is a day shift role from 4:45 am to 5:00 pm with a rotating 2/2/3 schedule. The supervisor directs and coordinates the line manufacturing operations of a department or shift to meet company standards for safety, quality, quantity, cost, schedules, and profitability. The pay range for this role is $75,000 to $95,000 annually and is based on experience.

• Maintain a Safe Working Environment:
  Ensure safety requirements are met and ensure diverse, respectful workplace conditions are adhered to for an overall safe workplace.
• Employee
  
  Experience:
  
  Partner with HR and plant leadership team to attract, embrace, and empower people. Maintain a structure of skilled staffing level to accomplish the department mission. Directly supervise, coach, and mentor, & develop production crew, driving & adhering to a “We Grow People” approach to training/growth/development.
• Accelerate Innovation:
  Understand business needs & goals and transform ideas into action. Lead team through changes & business growth. Encourage open dialogue and sharing of ideas, recognize & reward teams for innovative ideas. Drive a culture of trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of shared ideas for product and/or process improvements.
• Win as a Team:
  Collaborate with team members in all departments and across all levels of the plant team to develop and install methods, improvements, and cost‑saving ideas.
• Drive Customer Satisfaction:
  Work closely with the Plant Manager & Production Manager to drive plant standards, procedures, and program plans for achieving and maintaining the required level of product quality.

• Plan and coordinate work, train and motivate, monitor and evaluate performance of forming employees; ensure their ability to safely operate equipment to produce product; counsel, record, and discipline as necessary. Develop & mentor shift LEAD to effectively oversee the daily routines of their assigned crew.
• Responsible for 40+ employees on shift.
• Be alert to existing and potential production problems and take necessary corrective action.
• Maintain shift reports/records; ensure that necessary operating supplies/materials are on hand.
• Maintain a personnel structure and staffing level to accomplish the manufacturing mission in a safe, effective and efficient manner.
• Interview and recommend applicants for hire as forming employees.
• Collaborate with other employees at all levels to develop and install methods, improvements and cost‑saving ideas.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of all processes and equipment.
• Ensure that established company safety philosophy, policies, rules, regulations and procedures are followed.
• Responsible for all processes, equipment, employees’ safety, and housekeeping of the area and meeting production quality and quantity standards on the shift;…