Packaging Team Lead

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 employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation, and sustainability.

Benefits

• Health and Wellness Care Program
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs and promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan with excellent matching
• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short-term, long-term, and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation and paid holidays

Responsibilities

• Coordinates with Shift Supervisor on packaging needs for production equipment
• Ensures all lines are adequately supplied with materials (e.g., labels, cartons, trays)
• Conducts PPE compliance audits throughout the shift to ensure safety requirements are followed
• Assists Packaging Operators to ensure smooth workflow
• Sets up and operates multiple types of packaging equipment, including carton erectors, partition inserters, product inserters, top closers, and palletization equipment
• Leads assigned rework operations as the Packaging Operator, auditing processes to ensure procedural compliance and accurate paperwork completion
• Ensures labels correctly match the product in facilities where manual labeling is required
• Manages and assigns break schedules for packers
• Supports troubleshooting and training initiatives for Packers
• Audits packer standard work and completion
• Audits packer quality checks and completion

Performance Metrics

• Completion of staffing report for packer staff
• Completion of package paperwork
• Updated and completion of packer training documentation
• Efficiency in the following competencies:
  • Ensures Accountability
  • Decision Quality
  • Communicates Effectively
  • Instills Trust
  • Collaborates
  • Values Differences
  • Drives Results

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Minimum 6 months of Packaging Operator experience preferred
• Some lead experience preferred
• Good mechanical skills
• Capable of lifting 25 pounds and standing for a minimum of 12 hours
• Able to work with multiple types of equipment simultaneously

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.

• Regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and occasionally climb or balance
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear
• Occasionally required to sit
• 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 include close vision
• Required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies, procedures, and Safety Standards (OSHA)