What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Manager position at ALPLA INC?
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.
What Can You Expect From ALPLA
- Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits
- Child Care Benefits
- Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
- Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
- 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
- Medical, dental, vision plan
- Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
- Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
- Paid vacation; paid holidays
What Will You Enjoy Doing
The Production Manager will work to ensure a smooth, safe, and efficient production operation. To maintain highest standards of safety, quality, knowhow, and productivity on the production floor.
- 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 personnel
- 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-time
- 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