Production Manager

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

• Ensures and reinforces the exercise of the health and safety program
• Oversees daily production
  • Supports engineers to ensure machines run efficiently
  • Ensures profits are maximized
• Develops production schedule
  • Plans, directs and assigns duties of manufacturing personne
  • Authorizes overtime, as necessary, to meet production goals
• Analyzes and interprets data received on a daily basis and prepares management and financial reports
  • Analyzes data from various systems to detect and prevent production issue
    • Intervenes to the production floor when issues are detected in real-tim
  • Prepares production figures for daily meetings
  • Compiles month-end reports
• Troubleshoots & solves production problems
  • Manages production issues
  • In charge of issues that are being solved and tracked
  • Reports crucial process problems to the Plant Manager & Directors
• Management of the Production Department
  • Organizes and conducts meetings with Supervisors on a regular basis
  • Recruits (with HR) new employees
  • Ensures efficient shift hand-over and feedback of past shift performance
  • Prepares shift schedules
  • Performs disciplinary actions
  • Oversees all production training
  • Provides continuous feedback culture with all production team members
  • Performs annual Performance Evaluation
  • Monthly meeting with OPEX team
  • Know how level/trainings
    • Overall understanding of various ALPLA IT/MES Systems
    • Assesses training needs of staff and ensures execution of training (Equipment, Product, Processes, and IT/MES Systems
• Ensures all employees follow procedures
  • Revises existing and implements new procedures

Education/Experience:

• Min 2-year Degree (Associates) in related field or equivalent, bachelor's degree preferred
• Technical / Engineering background
• 3 to 5 years' experience in a management position in production, preferably within plastics industry

Qualifications/Skills:

• Thorough understanding of Health and Safety practices
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Technical understanding (Manufacturing and IT)
• Strong knowledge sharing/training skills

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable 
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.