Production & Warehouse Manager

Production & Warehouse Manager

Company:  Rapak LLC

Primary Location:  6907 Coffman Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46268 USA

Employment Type: Salaried | Full-Time

Function:  Manufacturing Production / Distribution

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled 

 

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Position Summary: The Production & Warehouse Manager oversees all shift operations, in areas of responsibility, in a manner that enhances the plant’s safety, personnel engagement, quality of product, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage Direct Reports: Production Supervision (3 Shifts), Warehouse Supervision.

• Interact directly with support Teams: Procurement, Planning, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Sales, Customer Service.

 • Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment through coaching, training and proactively leading GEMBA walks and ensuring all safety policies are being adhered too.

• Ensure team members are successfully trained to ensure product quality meets or exceeds customer expectations according to internal and external specifications as communicated on the work instructions.

• Lead and maintain a “visual workplace” – production boards, equipment status boards, etc.

 • Proactively achieving OTIF through continuous improvement and productivity that includes uptime, scrap yields, cycle times, process flow, utilization, scheduling.

 • Review scheduled production runs based on customer requirements and communicate priorities across all three shifts.

• Responsible for filling out appropriate documentation, ensuring team members do their documentation accurately, including performance evaluations, accident reports, vacation requests, and counselling forms, etc.

 • Ensure every team member is properly trained, oriented and in compliance with the company’s safety, Food Safety, GMP’s, and Quality Policies.

 • Review and update team members’ job descriptions and hold them accountable for maintaining a safe work environment, delivering exceptional performance results, while maintaining harmony among workers.

• Responsible for shift meetings with team members to ensure communication of expectations, discuss any issues related to safety, quality or productivity that need to be addressed.

• Direct and coordinate revision of production plan, employees’ schedules, and priorities as a result of equipment failure or operating problems.

• Maintain effective control over time and attendance, reflecting adequate information in the time tracking system.

• Initiate or suggest plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.

• Lead, motivate, participate, and train team members, to promote growth in a team-oriented environment.

• Lead CI projects (Kaizen) and/or be a proactive participant on project teams in support of continuous improvement.

• Actively participates in 3rd Party audits representing their departments.

• Any task or assignment written here does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, or business.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in manufacturing and warehouse leadership position.

• Experience with developing and implementing successful solutions for complex manufacturing and supply chain problems.

 • Proven people management skills and ability to develop a team.

• Project management.

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.

• Lean or Six Sigma experience preferred.

• Ability to speak Spanish is a plus.