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.

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