Converting Lead (Production)

Smurfit Westrock; Aston Township (PA); On-site; USD 2,853,000 - 4,063,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Drug screening

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock is seeking a Production Lead in Aston Township, PA to assist the production supervisor in guiding department staff and meeting schedules. You will direct floor employees on production issues, training, and safe operations under supervision.

The role focuses on maintaining quality, safety, and efficiency with KPI tracking and cross-department coordination for timely, cost-effective production results.

Qualifications

• Coaching: Provides people with tools, knowledge, and opportunities to develop themselves; determines employees’ training needs, works with employees to produce continuous development plans, and provides regular feedback and coaching to help employees develop in current and future roles; visibly supports culture and teams.
• Organizational Skills: Plans, arranges and/or monitors work to ensure achievement of desired results; establishes a systematic course of action to accomplish objectives.
• Adaptability: Demonstrates agility, flexibility, and a willingness to modify one’s approach to achieve desired results; responds quickly to changing demands, processes, and updated information.
• Communication: Capable of determining an employees’ preferred method of learning and tailoring training approach to each employee to effectively communicate data, insights, and critical messages resulting in clear understanding.
• Customer-Oriented: Proactively assesses and effectively resolves customer issues quickly; ensures that quality improvements meet the needs and expectations of a diverse customer base; consistently operates with customers' best interests in mind.
• Strategic Thinking: Develops short and long-term courses of action that support the organization’s overall vision and mission; balances business, technical, and operational issues when determining a strategy; identifies problems with current strategies and suggests ways to resolve them; incorporates knowledge of WestRock’s goals/strategy as well as competitive, customer, supplier, industry, or marketplace trends into strategic plans; capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks.
• Process-Oriented: Plans, designs, and manages processes while focusing on refining and improving to increase efficiency and effectiveness; understands process inputs, activities, outputs, roles and sequencing.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the shift with constant emphasis on safety, quality, productivity, and cost.
• Fills in for production supervisor’s vacations and appointments and production employee call offs, during breaks, or as business needs require.
• Informs the on-shift supervisors of attendance, quality, and performance-based issues that need to be addressed and fill out proper paperwork accordingly. Responsible to ensure all company rules are followed.
• Acts as first point of contact for operators regarding mechanical failure or production issues.
• Conducts hourly spot checks on the quality process for the department.
• Ensures completion of all safety required training or audits for the shift.
• Supports continuous improvement initiatives and enforce control procedures, recommending improvements to the Production Superintendent, as appropriate.
• Supports training initiatives as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) to enforce learning objectives, follow assessment procedures, and conduct timely evaluations.
• Coordinates production activities with other departments to ensure production goals/objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Monitor and track production activities to eliminate waste and ensure adherence to production and shipping schedules.
• Inventory management for the department.
• Input production data accurately into systems to measure and monitor KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) around efficiencies, downtime, inventory, and overall production data.
• Provide recommendations to improve safety, environmental and health of the entire facility.
• Work with Production Supervisor to produce accurate daily reports on daily shift production and daily shift review to assess if daily goals are met.

Skills

Coaching

Organizational Skills

Adaptability

Communication

Customer-Oriented

Strategic Thinking

Process-Oriented

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Kiwi

JDE

Job description

Description & Requirements

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

Converting Lead

Shift: rotating 1st and 2nd

Pay: starts at $25.01/hr

Job Summary: The Production Lead is responsible for assisting the production supervisor in leading department employees to meet manufacturing and production schedules. The Production Lead provides overall direction to production floor employees in their respective department, including production issues, production scheduling, new hire training and other training related areas, striving to improve overall operational efficiencies during the designated shift. This role is responsible for coordinating production operations in their department and maintaining effective quality procedures and safety regulations for the facility under the supervision of the applicable production supervisor.

Major Job Responsibilities

Business Excellence

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the shift with constant emphasis on safety, quality, productivity, and cost.


• Fills in for production supervisor’s vacations and appointments and production employee call offs, during breaks, or as business needs require.


• Informs the on-shift supervisors of attendance, quality, and performance-based issues that need to be addressed and fill out proper paperwork accordingly. Responsible to ensure all company rules are followed. Disciplinary action is the responsibility of the production supervisors and higher.


• Acts as first point of contact for operators regarding mechanical failure or production issues.


• Conducts hourly spot checks on the quality process for the department.


• Ensures completion of all safety required training or audits for the shift.


• Supports continuous improvement initiatives and enforce control procedures, recommending improvements to the Production Superintendent, as appropriate.


• Supports training initiatives as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) to enforce learning objectives, follow assessment procedures, and conduct timely evaluations.


• Coordinates production activities with other departments to ensure production goals/objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.


• Monitor and track production activities to eliminate waste and ensure adherence to production and shipping schedules.


• Inventory management for the department.


• Input production data accurately into systems to measure and monitor KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) around efficiencies, downtime, inventory, and overall production data.


• Provide recommendations to improve safety, environmental and health of the entire facility.


• Work with Production Supervisor to produce accurate daily reports on daily shift production and daily shift review to assess if daily goals are met.

People and Culture

• Mentor and coach employees (as needed).


• Maintain staff by training and evaluating new employees. Following the training plan and assessing the knowledge and performance to ensure competence in the department.


• Coordinates with maintenance employees to troubleshoot mechanical problems and perform preventative maintenance.


• Enforce adherence to plant safety regulations and encourage employees to become safety-conscious.


• Ensure daily that plant personnel follow all company standards and meet all customer commitments.

Critical Skills / Capabilities

• Coaching: Provides people with tools, knowledge, and opportunities to develop themselves; determines employees’ training needs, works with employees to produce continuous development plans, and provides regular feedback and coaching to help employees develop in current and future roles; visibly supports culture and teams.


• Organizational Skills: Plans, arranges and/or monitors work to ensure achievement of desired results; establishes a systematic course of action to accomplish objectives.


• Adaptability: Demonstrates agility, flexibility, and a willingness to modify one’s approach to achieve desired results; responds quickly to changing demands, processes, and updated information.


• Communication: Capable of determining an employees’ preferred method of learning and tailoring training approach to each employee to effectively communicate data, insights, and critical messages resulting in clear understanding.


• Customer-Oriented: Proactively assesses and effectively resolves customer issues quickly; ensures that quality improvements meet the needs and expectations of a diverse customer base; consistently operates with customers' best interests in mind.


• Strategic Thinking: Develops short and long-term courses of action that support the organization’s overall vision and mission; balances business, technical, and operational issues when determining a strategy; identifies problems with current strategies and suggests ways to resolve them; incorporates knowledge of WestRock’s goals/strategy as well as competitive, customer, supplier, industry, or marketplace trends into strategic plans; capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks.


• Process-Oriented: Plans, designs, and manages processes while focusing on refining and improving to increase efficiency and effectiveness; understands process inputs, activities, outputs, roles and sequencing.

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Office- Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook


• Kiwi


• JDE

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.