Job Description

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 to.
• 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 On-Time In-Full (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.

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