Night Shift Manufacturing Superintendent

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At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities. 

 

With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

 

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you.

 

A World of Difference. Made Possible.

 

MISSION / SUMMARY:

The Production Superintendent is responsible for the performance and culture in his/her shift - to include safety, quality, waste, building positive employee relations, development and engagement of team members, continuous improvement and exceeding budgeted production and operational metrics.  They report to the Operations Manager. They understand and align business operations and plant production as he/she executes their role to exceed customer expectations and align with GPI business, cultural, financial and operational objectives.
 

JOB FUNCTIONS: Job functions include, but are not limited to the following.

• Conduct department audits to ensure that the proper safety processes and systems are consistently and strictly enforced.
• Be proficient with all of the Plant Wide and the Departmental Safety policies and procedures.
• Maintain zero environmental compliance issues by fully understanding and enforcing the requirements.
• Ensure that all required safety training is done effectively with all employees on shift.
• Provide a safe work environment by strictly enforcing proper housekeeping requirements and 5S.
• Ensure effective and appropriate response to safety incidents, including contacting key personnel per documented policy.
• Focus on individual development and success to achieving the desired results of the overall team.
• Assist with coaching all supervisors as needed with guidance from Department Manager and HR Manager.
• Help drive the supervisor’s engagement on shift by leading by example.
• Appropriately prioritize “people” issues at all times.
• Provide input on the Performance process for growth of supervisors.
• Ensure that the proper training processes are in place and are being followed.
• Ensure all rules and procedures are being consistently followed and enforced and that all investigations are completed correctly and in a timely manner.
• Embrace and enforce the open door policy.
• Communicate to shift leadership team all business information nightly.
• Encourage engagement of all employees during troubleshooting and decision making, empower/equip organization to make decisions at the lowest level.
• Maintain coordination/communication with all supervisors on shift.  Manage shift priorities and resources. 
• Ensure proper response and management of crewing and reliability issues on shift.
• Understand customer expectations.
• Hold employees accountable for meeting all quality and productivity objectives.
• Understand and help control all cost drivers.
• Participate in the Plant Cost Reduction efforts by actively soliciting, communicating and implementing cost reduction opportunities.
• Facilitate and encourage deliberate and structured troubleshooting processes and root cause failure analysis.  Involve operators as much as possible.
• Ensure equipment repairs and maintenance schedules are effective by using SAP data, production data, and RCFA tools to evaluate work, results, and costs.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

BACKGROUND / EXPERIENCE:

• 3-5 Years manufacturing experience preferred

 

EDUCATION / KNOWLEDGE:

• Four-year degree preferred or;
• Compensatory closely related work experience required in lieu of degree.

 

SKILLS:

• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Projec