Overview

Berry Global Berry Global, headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is committed to its mission of ‘Always Advancing to Protect What’s Important.’ With $13 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2019 on a combined pro forma basis from operations, Berry is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative nonwoven, flexible, and rigid products used every day within consumer and industrial end markets. Berry operates over 290 manufacturing facilities worldwide, on six continents, and employs over 48,000 individuals.

At Berry, we pursue excellence in all that we do and are always advancing to improve the way we work along with the products and services we provide. Our culture fosters trust and partnerships through appreciation, acknowledgement, and inclusion. At Berry, we are continuously improving to support our mission and exemplify our values of partnerships, excellence, growth, and safety. To learn more about Berry, visit berryglobal.com

Responsibilities

PURPOSE: The Sr. Foreperson (Line Leader) is responsible for assisting the shift supervisor about shift production, employees, and production equipment in the Department. Great opportunity for a candidate willing to learn the process from the start. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review production orders in a start-up production, run and shut down of equipment.
• Responsible for all processes, equipment and packers on assigned lines.
• Must meet production, quality and quantity standards.
• Assures proper set ups and quality checks.
• Organizes work for smooth operations.
• Assists in training packers on how to do quality checks, gauge, length, width and weight and does follows-up on production to make sure product is being produced to specifications and documents paperwork.
• Train the machine operators on how to make boxes and label them, drop the rope and thread up the post gussets and bag machines.
• Make necessary adjustments and settings to equipment so product is in compliance to work order.
• Can operate all aspects involved in a start-up, process control blending system, recalibration and control panel, printing press and bag separator and can take a line down properly.
• Must be able to troubleshoot the majority of problems on extrusion, bag machines and winders.
• Advises machine operators of order changes to ensure proper materials are ready for the new order.
• Teaches machine operators the entire process of the blown film production from the beginning of the process to the finished goods.
• Must know resin system and the various resins used for their application and in what capacity.
• Keep the hoppers full of resin and gay lords of resin ready for use.
• Notifies Supervisor of equipment problems and advises of quality problems.
• Run the lines efficiently so scrap is at a minimum.
• Assists other packers and Line Foreman when their lines go down or there is a manufacturing problem.
• Moves equipment in and out of manufacturing area for production changeovers with a pallet jack or forklift.
• Replaces broken or worn out hand equipment and makes sure the packers have all of their PPE available and in use.
• Assists Utility person move and wrap pallets.
• Must be willing to work twelve-hour shifts and overtime when needed.
• Responsible for adhering to and executing the applicable Environmental Health & Safety programs in order to provide a safe and clean workplace for all employees according to Berry, local, state, and federal requirement-regulations.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EXPERIENCE:

High school diploma, equivalent, or two years of previous blown film-manufacturing experience. Good mechanical background a plus. Have valid Berry forklift license.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read, write, understand and communicate in English.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to do functional math; i.e. adding, subtracting, multiplying and division. Ability to use a handheld calculator to figure percentage formulas and out-put yield. Must be able to calculate the density of the blend and percentage of layer thickness with micrometers. Accurately read provided measuring devices.

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 the job.

 While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. 

• The employee must be able to keep up with moderate speed production machines winders, bag machines, printing presses, extruders, blenders and pumps. Manual dexterity required with exposure to arm, wrist and back fatigue.
• The employee frequently uses their arms, hands and fingers to handle, grasp, hold, grip and squeeze.
• The employee routinely bends and occasionally lifts up to 65 pounds over a twelve (12) hour shift, kneels, squats, pulls and drags sheets of plastic, rearranges and organizes products/materials, climbs/descends stairs into/from the tower areas 50 to 75 feet in the air and pushes a broom to clean the production floor.
• The employee stands approximately 10 hours and frequently walks the production area to locate materials, check supplies, locate pallets and offer assistance where needed.
• The employees infrequently steps up 1½ feet and pulls themselves into the seat of a forklift. Operation of forklift and lifting equipment are infrequent job responsibilities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions on this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is constantly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to very loud. An essential part of this position is to work in a teamwork environment. The employee is constantly exposed to temperature variances; extreme heat during the Spring and Summer and cold temperatures during the Winter.