Production Supervisor Converting

The Opportunity

The Production Supervisor – Converting 3rd shift at Smurfit Westrock in Lancaster, PA oversees maintenance operations to maximize plant and production equipment uptime. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing day-to-day operations with a focus on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Acting as the first point of contact for operators regarding mechanical failures or production issues.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and enforcing control procedures.
• Cooking up production activities with other departments to achieve production goals.
• Maintaining staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training employees, and developing individual growth opportunities.
• Ensuring adherence to plant safety regulations and encouraging employee safety consciousness.
• Directing maintenance employees to troubleshoot mechanical problems and perform preventative maintenance.
• Producing daily reports on shift production and conducting daily shift reviews.
• Controlling load factors and workflow to optimize capacity and resource usage.
• Ensuring compliance with company standards and meeting customer commitments.

People and Culture

As a Production Supervisor, you will manage and coach employees, provide performance reviews, enforce disciplinary actions, and direct maintenance employees. Essential responsibilities include:

• Maintaining staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training employees, and developing individual growth opportunities.
• Ensuring daily adherence to plant safety regulations and encouraging safety-consciousness among employees.
• Ensuring compliance with company standards and meeting customer commitments.

Critical Skills / Capabilities

• Coaching: Provides tools, knowledge, and opportunities for personal development; determines training needs, works with employees to create development plans, and offers regular feedback and coaching.
• Organizational Skills: Arranges and monitors work to ensure achievement of desired results; establishes systematic courses of action to accomplish objectives.
• Adaptability: Demonstrates agility and flexibility in response to changing demands; modifies approach to achieve desired results.
• Communication: Creates and delivers engaging presentations to internal and external audiences; develops new communication strategies and approaches to communicate data, insights, and critical messages.
• Customer-Oriented: Proactively assesses and effectively resolves customer issues; ensures quality improvements meet diverse customer needs.
• Strategic Thinking: Develops short and long-term courses of action supporting the organization's vision and mission; balances various business, technical, and operational issues.
• Process-Oriented: Plans, designs, and manages processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness; understands process inputs, activities, outputs, roles, and sequencing.

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Office: Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• WorkforceKiwi: Familiarity with WorkforceKiwi software.
• AS/400: Knowledge of AS/400 systems.
• JDE: Experience with JDE systems.

Experience and Education

• Experience: 3 to 4 years of related experience, preferably in manufacturing and corrugated supervisory roles.
• Preferred: Previous experience working in a Lean environment; Six Sigma Green or Black Belt Certification.
• Education: High School diploma or G.E.D., with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Engineering, or Operations Management preferred.

Other Requirements

• Drug Screening: Required after a conditional job offer.
• Equal Opportunity Employer: Qualified candidates will receive consideration without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.