Supervisor

About the Role

Use your unique talents, experience, skills, education, and enthusiasm to complete the Operations team. Your contribution is essential to the vision of Ring Container Technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide a safe environment for all production employees, visitors, and temporary labor.
• Ensure all employees receive regular safety training in accordance with the safety training program.
• Ensure all employees and visitors wear protective or safety equipment such as earplugs, hairnets, safety glasses, or gloves.
• Coordinate safety training with the plant’s safety team coordinator.
• Document safety training and file accordingly.
• Monitor production floor and equipment for unsafe or hazardous conditions; report immediately and make appropriate corrections.
• Ensure proper medical attention is provided immediately for any accident and perform accident investigation.
• Implement and continue the Ring Family Culture in the facility, prioritizing employees over production.
• Welcome employees daily, inquire about their personal lives, and show care.
• Hold pre-shift meetings to explain daily needs, concerns, and emphasize safety.
• Manage by walking around during shifts, initiating conversations about employee well-being.
• Recognize and praise employees for positive actions.
• Actively listen and resolve issues to benefit all parties.
• Lead and support employee engagement initiatives.
• Conduct semi-weekly focused walks through the plant to engage with employees.
• Use active listening skills to encourage employee input on safety, quality, performance, goals, scheduling, and teamwork.
• Note opportunities for improvement and potential solutions based on employee input.
• Develop strategies for employee-led teams to implement or try new ideas.
• Provide ongoing feedback to employee-led teams and support efforts leading to improved results.
• Celebrate wins and recognize employees participating in successful teams.
• Produce and/or pack the best quality product that meets or exceeds company and customer expectations.
• Coordinate and conduct quality training as required.
• Label and/or tag all production and maintain raw and packaging material traceability by recording lot codes.
• Ensure all production employees are trained to identify nonconforming product and materials.
• Ensure non-conforming products and materials are placed on hold, isolated, and properly tracked.
• Perform quality and downstream testing, record results, and communicate out-of-specification conditions.
• Chart Statistical Process Control (SPC) data and evaluate for out-of-specification and out-of-control conditions.
• Ensure production employees perform housekeeping and sanitization duties to maintain facility cleanliness and safety.
• Maintain a clean, organized work area through effective housekeeping and sanitization practices.
• Proactively resolve housekeeping and sanitization opportunities.
• Achieve maximum production efficiency on all scheduled machines.
• Monitor machine processes and ensure changes are justified and recorded.
• Monitor production efficiencies and adjust to meet ‘World Class’ Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) standards.
• Perform shift inventories to ensure accurate production numbers.
• Record daily production, lot information, downtime summaries, etc., in plant documents and LN.
• Proactively address inefficiencies and communicate equipment issues with maintenance personnel.
• Ensure Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) paperwork and inventories are completed accurately.
• Provide necessary training to all production personnel related to safety, quality, production, and equipment operation.
• Enforce Company Policy and Procedures with shift personnel.
• Maintain employee relations and records.
• Review time cards daily and approve authorized overtime.
• Maintain employee attendance calendars.
• Approve/deny and schedule vacation requests, personal time, etc.
• Perform employee corrective and/or disciplinary action and maintain documentation.
• Monitor employee breaks.
• Schedule and conduct shift meetings regularly; document shift meetings.
• Promote and participate in Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) events and projects.
• Answer telephones and greet visitors professionally and courteously.
• Support the development and implementation of food safety and food defense programs in compliance with SQFI or BRC standards.
• Coordinate and conduct food safety training as required.
• Follow all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), personnel practices, HACCP, and prerequisite food safety programs.
• Ensure work is performed to prevent foreign material contamination.
• Communicate food safety and food defense issues to appropriate personnel.

Requirements

• Strong people skills, leadership qualities, managerial abilities, and a sense of urgency.
• Accountability, business ethics, professionalism, self-motivation, and focus on business improvement.
• 2-4 year technical degree or equivalent military experience.
• May be asked to perform duties of an operator, line worker, maintenance mechanic, or forklift driver.
• Proficiency in computer software such as LN and MS Office.
• Proficiency in written and oral English.

Key Performance Measures

• Ensure completeness and accuracy of NWA Quality Analyst data entry.
• Monitor and document all scrap produced during shift.
• Conduct weekly shift meetings with supporting documentation.
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of OEE data entry.
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of all LN data entry.

Abilities

• Ability to come to work promptly and regularly.
• Ability to take direction and work well with others.
• Ability to work under the stress of deadlines.
• Ability to concentrate and perform accurately.
• Ability to react to change productively and handle other tasks as assigned.

Physical Demands

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, and equipment; requires good body agility.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist.
• Crouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Standing for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving over long distances to accomplish tasks.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touch.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by spoken word, including detailed or important instructions.
• Hearing: Perceiving sounds at 40 dB or greater at 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, and 2000 Hz with or without correction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements of the arms, hands, and/or fingers.
• Vision: Ability to prepare and analyze data and figures; capable of seeing small defects at close distances.
• Exertion: Medium work – exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds constantly.

Working Conditions

• Subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions.
• May be subject to extreme heat (temperatures above 100°F for periods of more than one hour).
• Subject to noise and vibrations.
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, etc.
• May be subject to atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
• Exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.