Packaging Area Coordinator (2nd shift)

Royal Canin SAS; Ohio; On-site; USD 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pet food company is seeking a Packaging Area Coordinator to manage a packaging team and ensure efficient production at their Ohio plant. The role entails overseeing communication, controlling production systems, and ensuring quality assurance. Ideal candidates will have a year of food production experience and strong problem-solving skills, supporting the company’s commitment to delivering precise nutrition for pets.

Benefits

Best-in-class learning and development support from day one

Competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year experience in a food production environment.
• Ability to solve problems and determine root cause.
• Self-management skills with a positive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Ensure open communication with packaging lead regarding product availability.
• Operate and control multiple product delivery systems.
• Monitor control systems for production issues and troubleshoot.

Skills

Problem Solving

Interpersonal Skills

Learning Control Systems

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Tools

Computer Literacy

Job description

Job: Packaging Area Coordinator

Shift: Days

Location: Royal Canin (Lewisburg, OH)

Royal Canin is seeking Packaging Area Coordinator to join our exciting pet food business at a Lewisburg, OH manufacturing plant. We focus on the unique needs of cats and dogs. Our obsession with detail allows us to deliver precise, effective nutrition and help them become their magnificent best.

Additionally, the Packaging Area Coordinator can manage the packaging team in the absence of the Packaging Lead and Flex Operator to provide more cross functionality and support for each shift.

What are we looking for?

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year experience in a food production environment.
• Proficiency in learning new control systems
• Ability to solve problems and determine root cause of issues.
• Interpersonal skills to work in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• High School diploma, or equivalent
• Ability to quickly respond.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time on hard surfaces
• Computer / IPad literate with the ability to enter, record, maintain, and retrieve data.
• Self-management skills with a positive attitude and minimal supervision.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Communication – Ensure that information is communicated from Extrusion to Packaging on the availability of product or issues that are causing a lack thereof. Open communication with the Packaging Lead to ensure planned production schedule is being followed and fulfilled.

• Control Systems – Operate and control multiple product delivery systems (Courbon, Advanced Engineering, and KSE Promas) for efficient transfer from Extrusion to Packaging lines.

• Quality Assurance – Segregate product according to Q&FS standards ensuring that there is adherence to FIFO, no product mixing, confirmation of empty bins, etc.

• Production Management – Create production runs for the mobile scale & mixer equipment to deliver kibble to multiple packaging lines from the 27 finished product silos.

• Troubleshooting – Monitor the control systems for any issues that could block production (from the transfer to the finished product silos to the packaging lines) and troubleshoot mechanical & system issues, calling for help as necessary from site resources & vendor resources.

• Other System Operations – Monitor the kibble recovery system for any issues & troubleshoot problems. Operate the Big Bag system when routing product to the super sacks.

• Associate Development – Interaction and communication with multiple teams in the plant (Flow, Packaging, Extrusion, Quality) to gather cross functional knowledge of plant operations.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.

• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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