Production Manager

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Job description

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits

Child Care Benefits

Dependent Care Cost Savings Program

Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities

401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan

Medical, dental, vision plan

Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement

Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA

Paid vacation; paid holidays

What Will You Enjoy Doing

The Production Manager will work to ensure a smooth, safe, and efficient production operation. To maintain highest standards of safety, quality, knowhow, and productivity on the production floor.

Ensures and reinforces the exercise of the health and safety program

Oversees daily production

Supports engineers to ensure machines run efficiently

Ensures profits are maximized

Develops production schedule

Plans, directs and assigns duties of manufacturing personnel

Authorizes overtime, as necessary, to meet production goals

Analyzes and interprets data received on a daily basis and prepares management and financial reports

Analyzes data from various systems to detect and prevent production issue

Intervenes to the production floor when issues are detected in real-time

Prepares production figures for daily meetings

Compiles month-end reports

Troubleshoots & solves production problems

Manages production issues

In charge of issues that are being solved and tracked

Reports crucial process problems to the Plant Manager & Directors

Management of the Production Department

Organizes and conducts meetings with Supervisors on a regular basis

Recruits (with HR) new employees

Ensures efficient shift hand-over and feedback of past shift performance

Prepares shift schedules

Performs disciplinary actions

Oversees all production training

Provides continuous feedback culture with all production team members

Performs annual Performance Evaluation

Monthly meeting with OPEX team

Know how level/trainings

Overall understanding of various ALPLA IT/MES Systems

Assesses training needs of staff and ensures execution of training (Equipment, Product, Processes, and IT/MES Systems

Ensures all employees follow procedures

Revises existing and implements new procedures

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here 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 the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job:

The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.

The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee is occasionally required to sit.

The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA).

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

What Makes You Great

Education/Experience:

Min 2-year Degree (Associates) in related field or equivalent, bachelor's degree preferred

Technical / Engineering background

3 to 5 years' experience in a management position in production, preferably within plastics industry

Qualifications/Skills:

Thorough understanding of Health and Safety practices

Excellent communication and organizational skills

Strong leadership skills

Technical understanding (Manufacturing and IT)

Strong knowledge sharing/training skills

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