Plant Supervision - Floating

Position Summary

The Plant Supervisor - Floating position provides leadership to assigned hourly employees thus enabling them to work safely while manufacturing a quality product in an efficient manner.

This position also delivers on our core focus of:

• Service Matters
• Relationships Count
• Performance Delivered

While building on our core values of:

• Help 1st
• Take ownership
• Do the right thing
• Expect excellence

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Be able to work any shift to cover vacations and training needs
• Work on process improvement projects
• Must be flexible on the hours they work to cover all openings need to cover or support in the same week
• Work all departments of production, including Die Butter, Flexos, Specialty Gluer and the Corrugator
• Work with maintenance to help drive projects and repairs
• Implements and enforces safe work behavior and promotes safety culture
• Conducts trainings in safety as well as all applicable plant quality procedures
• Reviews product quality and ensures that quality standards are being adhered to
• Reviews, implements, and follows Safe Quality Food policies
• Ensures all equipment and work centers are adequately staffed and consults with the People Group to determine when personnel adjustments should be made, including temporary worker assignments
• Monitors product flow to meet production schedules and to ensure on-time deliveries to customers
• Evaluates machine efficiencies and provides constructive guidance when objectives are not met
• Issues corrective action when product fails to meet quality standards, or when time and attendance or behavioral issues arise
• Maintains all assigned machines and work areas in a clean and well-organized manner
• Adhering to all Company Policies and complying with all governmental policies and regulations
• Ability to work in excess of 40 hours, as business needs arise
• Regular and reliable attendance
• Any other task or duty that is deemed necessary by management.

Cultural Competencies

Help First means being a reliable team member serving everyone, internally and externally. At Akers, we believe and exhibit a “roll up your sleeves and get the job done” mentality and behavior. No job is unimportant, and no person is above any job. We demonstrate this through:

• Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker, and listener
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• Solution vs. blame oriented

Take Ownership means that you think and act like an owner. No matter the role, everyone is empowered to be a good steward of the organization. Each person has the autonomy to make recommendations for improvement to their work and the organization. We demonstrate this through:

• Patient
• Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontational situations
• Advocate for continuous improvement
• Mixture of firmness and flexibility
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• Holds self and others accountable
• Takes calculated risks

Do the Right Thing means that do what’s right regardless of its popularity. Having high moral standards is paramount and is the compass that keeps us on track. We demonstrate this through:

• Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
• Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
• Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not

Expect Excellence means that you do it right the first time. At Akers, we expect excellence in all we do We demonstrate this through:

• Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
• Has sense of urgency
• Follows up to ensure quality task completion

Work Environment / Physical Demands

• Fast paced environment, requiring adaptation to continuous changes in Company, Customer and People needs
• Ability to frequently stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch; talk and hear
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts
• Exposure to a loud environment
• Exposure to wet and/or humid conditions
• Exposure to high, precarious places and vibration

Systems Usage

• ERP system (such as HRMS, Amtech, Parabox, etc.)
• Kiwi
• ADP Workforce Now

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• 18 years of age or older
• GED or high school diploma, 1-3 months experience or combination of education and experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous supervisory experience preferred
• Basic computer skills