Leadman

Smurfit Westrock plc; Aston Township (PA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock plc is seeking a Production Lead to assist the production supervisor in guiding department employees to meet manufacturing schedules. The role emphasizes safety, quality, and efficiency on a rotating 1st/2nd shift in Aston, PA.

The position requires hands-on leadership, coaching, and continuous improvement to optimize production. The Production Lead coordinates with maintenance and other departments, mentors staff, ensures compliance with safety regulations, and drives daily KPI

Qualifications

• Coaching provides tools, knowledge, and opportunities to develop.
• Organizational skills help plan, arrange, and monitor work for results.
• Adaptability shows agility and flexibility to changing demands.
• Communication adapts training to employees and conveys data clearly.
• Customer-oriented focus resolves issues quickly and meets customer needs.
• Strategic thinking aligns actions with WestRock goals and market trends.
• Process-oriented approach designs and manages efficient workflows.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day shift operations with emphasis on safety, quality, productivity and cost.
• Fill in for production supervisor during vacations or absences as needed.
• Inform on-shift supervisors of attendance, quality and performance issues and document actions.
• Act as first contact for operators regarding mechanical failures or production issues.
• Conduct hourly quality process spot checks for the department.
• Ensure completion of safety training and audits for the shift.
• Support continuous improvement and enforce control procedures and learning objectives.
• Coordinate production activities with other departments to meet goals efficiently.
• Monitor production activities to reduce waste and adhere to schedules.
• Manage department inventory and input production data to KPI systems.
• Provide recommendations to improve safety and overall plant health.
• Work with supervisor to produce daily shift reports and reviews.

Skills

Coaching

Organizational Skills

Adaptability

Communication

Customer-Oriented

Strategic Thinking

Process-Oriented

Tools

Microsoft Office

JDE

Job description

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.

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- 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
• 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 suggest ways to resolve them; incorporate knowledge of WestRock’s goals/strategy as well as competitive, customer, supplier, industry, or marketplace trends into strategic plans; capitalize 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
• 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.