Alltrista - Operations Supervisor - Greer Plant 2 - Night Shift

Alltrista Plastics LLC, is a subsidiary of Jadex Inc., and is a leading manufacturer in high-volume, precision injection molded parts.  The company designs and manufactures with proprietary engineering processes and extensive manufacturing capabilities, from five (5) locations worldwide.  From the first spark of an idea, through the design of the mold to the actual manufactured product, Alltrista Plastics focuses all efforts on delivering innovative plastic solutions.  The company’s core markets include Consumer Products, Medical/Healthcare, Personal Care, Health & Beauty, Caps & Closures, and Packaging.

Production Supervisor - Greer, SC

Position Summary

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Production Supervisor is responsible for maintaining a productive, efficient, quality-oriented and safe work atmosphere during their assigned shifts.  Accountable for effective performance of the manufacturing operation to achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), including compliance with Supervisor Absolutes and 5-habits.  Responsible for ensuring a positive, fair, and equitable treatment for all employees.

Primary Functions

• Maintains enforcement of and compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Lead, support, and ensure a safe working environment. Establishes and maintains safe good housekeeping and 5S initiatives.
• Provided direction to their team to ensure daily objectives are being met.  Provides coaching, counseling, and disciplinary actions as necessary.
• Responsible for support of all Operational Excellence activities, including hourly boards, daily operator machine loading to ensure Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) are achieved for all equipment to include minimizing down time, ensuring quality and reducing scrap rates, and maintaining equipment performance to standard.
• Responsible for maintaining conformance to the schedule to ensure On-time In-Full (OTIF) and customer expectations are exceeded including updating Mattec scheduled jobs, scrap, and down time codes.
• Responsible for compliance to Supervisor Absolutes and following the 5-habits.
• Coordinates with Quality, Maintenance, Material Handlers, and Scheduling to ensure machines are running per schedule and solves production floor issues to achieve production plans.
• Coordinates with maintenance staff all maintenance issues that are beyond the skill level of the shift team to ensure accurate communication of needs for repair and timeliness for completion.
• Ensures equitable distribution of work assignments and prioritization of same for subordinates along with follow through until completion. 
• Trains and develops shift personnel to maximize efficiencies.
• Provides timely detailed information pass on via the shift logbook to other supervisors, managers and departments that will documents problems and corrective actions that were taken during shift operation.
• Provides timely submission of reports and miscellaneous documentation as required by policy and procedures.
• Manages the production floor responsibilities including timely and efficient mold set-ups and/or changes, manpower utilization, material efficiencies and documented quality evaluation to ensure that maximum capabilities are met.
• Established communication with tooling team to coordinate repair and maintenance schedules for all tools to ensure efficiencies, cavitation, and prolong the life of the tools.
• Ensure accurate up to date and complete cycle/set-up sheets and road maps are maintained at each machine for the job running.
• Ensure fair and equitable treatment of all employees by coordinating with other supervisors, managers, and departments to ensure consistency in the manufacturing operation.
• Provides timely completion and submission of performance reviews.
• Ensures a productive, proactive work environment.

Key Qualifications

• Three to five years supervisory or lead experience in manufacturing environment.
• Injection Molding and automation assembly experience preferred. 
• Thorough knowledge of safety specifications and procedures.
• Understanding of quality standards and systems including Statistical Process Control and other quality measurements.

Physical Requirements

The conditions herein 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 essential job functions. Please refer to the Physical Job Description, which is contained as a separate document, for more detail. 

Environment: Normal manufacturing environments; work with machinery and media in or around confined spaces; exposure to chemicals, grease and oils.   

Physical: Sufficient physical ability to perform heavy lifting and carrying; reaching, kneeling, crawling, climbing; standing for moderate periods of time.   

Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents. 

Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction. 

Other: Ability to work overtime or occasionally on weekends with short notice. 

Specifics:

• Competitive compensation
• Full benefits package
• 401K with match
• Strong vacation and corporate holiday policy

The above statements describe the general nature and level of responsibilities for this position, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of this position. Company management may assign other relevant, business-related duties.