Production Manager

About the role

Join ALPLA, a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions serving some of the world's most recognized brands. As a family-owned company with locations around the world, ALPLA offers stable careers, hands-on training, competitive benefits, and opportunities for growth. We invest in our people, promote from within, and foster a culture focused on safety, teamwork, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• 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 schedules
• 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 issues
• Intervenes on the production floor when issues are detected in real-time
• Prepares production figures for daily meetings
• Compiles month-end reports
• Troubleshoots and solves production problems
• Manages production issues
• Tracks and resolves issues
• Reports crucial process problems to the Plant Manager & Directors
• Manages 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 Evaluations
• Participates in monthly meetings with OPEX team
• 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

Requirements

• Minimum 2-year Degree (Associate) in related field or equivalent; Bachelor Degree preferred
• Technical / Engineering background
• 3 to 5 years' experience in a management position in production, preferably within the plastics industry
• 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

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, climb or balance, use hands to finger, handle or feel.
• Frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, talk, and 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 and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Childcare and dependent care savings programs
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement and educational assistance programs
• Career growth and advancement opportunities
• Employee recognition programs
• Hands-on training and professional development