Production Supervisor Corrugator

The Opportunity

The Production Supervisor – Corrugator 3rd Shift at Smurfit Westrock is responsible for overseeing maintenance operations to maximize plant and production equipment uptime. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the day-to-day operations of the shift 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, recommending improvements to the Plant Superintendent as appropriate.
• Coeordinating production activities with other departments to ensure production goals and objectives are met in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Monitoring production activities to eliminate waste and ensure adherence to production and shipping schedules.
• Inputting production data accurately into the system to measure and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) around efficiencies, downtime, inventory, and overall production.
• Providing recommendations to improve the safety, environmental, and health of the entire facility.
• Producing daily reports on daily shift production and conducting daily shift reviews to assess if daily goals are met.
• Controlling load factors and workflow to ensure maximum use of available capacity and effective use of labor, tools, and equipment.

People and Culture

As a Production Supervisor, you will manage and coach employees, provide performance reviews, enforce disciplinary actions, recruit, select, orient, train employees, and develop individual growth opportunities. Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring adherence to plant safety regulations and encouraging employees to become safety conscious.
• Directing maintenance employees to troubleshoot mechanical problems and perform preventative maintenance.
• Maintaining staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training employees, and developing individual growth opportunities.
• Ensuring 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