Production Supervisor

Job Description

Finishing Shift Supervisor | American Packaging Corporation

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at American Packaging Corporation, located in COE. American Packaging Corporation is a leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, known for its consistent success and dedication to internal operations. This role is critical for directly supervising production employees, ensuring safety, maintaining operational efficiency, and upholding high-quality output during night shifts. The supervisor will play a key role in problem-solving, team development, and continuous improvement within the manufacturing environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: 12 Hour Nights – 2-2-3 Schedule
• Location: In-person, COE
• Pay: $70000–$80000 yearly
• Team: Directly supervises production employees; communicates with Department Managers.
• Mission: To lead and manage night shift production operations, ensuring safety, quality, efficiency, and team development.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Safety Leadership: Lead safety efforts across all manufacturing departments, actively participate in safety programs, conduct incident investigations, and manage fire and tornado drills.
• Operations Management: Manage and take responsibility for the operations of assigned machines 24 hours a day, including implementing and maintaining the 5S program, and coordinating with maintenance for work orders and PMs.
• Team Development: Facilitate on-the-job training and instruction for team members on the correct use of tools and equipment to ensure proper safety and operating procedures are followed.
• Shift Oversight: Serve as the management representative responsible for all plant operations during off shifts and weekend operations, making decisions concerning troubleshooting and employee issues.
• Quality and Efficiency: Analyze production data to identify opportunities for process improvement, sign off on Finishing run sheets ensuring correct specifications are maintained, and inspect all retains to ensure good quality product is being produced.

The Must-Haves
• Background: An Associate’s degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school.
• Experience: One year of related experience and/or training, including experience in supervisory responsibilities.
• Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, and technical procedures; capacity to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions; proficiency in calculating figures and applying concepts of basic algebra and geometry; strong reasoning ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.