Production Supervisor

The Opportunity

The Production Supervisor – Corrugator – 3rd Shift at Smurfit Westrock is responsible for overseeing maintenance operations and ensuring plant and production equipment uptime. Key responsibilities include managing day-to-day operations, addressing operator concerns, supporting continuous improvement initiatives, coordinating production activities, monitoring production activities, and producing daily reports.

How You Will Impact Smurfit Westrock

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the shift with constant emphasis on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Act as the first point of contact for operators regarding mechanical failures or production issues.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and enforce control procedures, recommending improvements to the Plant Superintendent, as appropriate.
• Cook up production activities with other departments to ensure production goals/objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training employees, and developing individual growth opportunities.
• Directs maintenance employees to troubleshoot mechanical problems and perform preventative maintenance.
• Enforce adherence to plant safety regulations and encourage employees to become safety conscious.
• Ensure daily that plant personnel follow all company standards and meet all customer commitments.

Critical Skills / Capabilities

• Coaching: Provides people with tools, knowledge, and opportunities to develop themselves; determines employees’ training needs, works with employees to produce continuous development plans, and provides regular feedback and coaching to help employees develop in current and future roles; visibly supports culture and teams.
• Organizational Skills: Plans, arranges, and/or monitors work to ensure achievement of desired results; establishes a systematic course of action to accomplish objectives.
• Adaptability: Demonstrates agility, flexibility, and a willingness to modify one’s approach to achieving desired results; responds quickly to changing demands, processes, and updated information.
• Communication: Creates and delivers engaging presentations to internal and external audiences; develops new communication strategies and approaches to communicate data, insights, and critical messages resulting in clear understanding.
• Customer-Oriented: Proactively assesses and effectively resolves customer issues quickly; proactively communicates with customers to ensure alignment and satisfaction; ensures that quality improvements meet the needs and expectations of a diverse customer base; consistently operates with customers' best interests in mind.
• Strategic Thinking: Develops short and long-term courses of action that support the organization's overall vision and mission; balances business, technical, and operational issues when determining a strategy; identifies problems with current strategies and suggests ways to resolve them; incorporates knowledge of WestRock’s goals/strategy as well as competitive, customer, supplier, industry, or marketplace trends into strategic plans; capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks.
• Process-Oriented: Plans, designs, and manages processes while focusing on refining and improving to increase efficiency and effectiveness; understands process inputs, activities, outputs, roles, and sequencing.

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Office- Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
• WorkforceKiwi
• AS/400
• JDE

Experience Required

• 3 to 4 years of related experience
• Manufacturing experience and corrugated supervisory experience
• Previous experience working in a Lean environment
• Six Sigma Green or Black Belt Certification

Education Required

• A high school diploma or G.E.D.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree (Business Management, Engineering or Operations Management)

Qualifications

• Drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.