Production Leadman

Smurfit Westrock Company; Aston Township (PA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock Company is seeking a Production Lead to assist the production supervisor in guiding department employees and meeting manufacturing schedules. The role involves directing the floor, handling training, and addressing production issues to improve efficiency.

Responsibilities include coordinating with other departments, monitoring safety training, and driving continuous improvement while ensuring on-shift supervisors are informed of attendance and performance issues.

Qualifications

• Coaching employees and providing feedback to develop skills.
• Strong organizational skills to plan and monitor work.
• Adaptability to changing demands and priorities.
• Effective communication tailored to diverse learning styles.
• Customer-oriented approach to resolve issues quickly and maintain quality.
• Strategic thinking aligned with company goals and market trends.
• Process-oriented mindset to improve efficiency and reduce waste.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day shift operations with emphasis on safety, quality, productivity, and cost.
• Act as first point of contact for operators regarding issues and coordinate solutions.
• Provide daily shift production reports and monitor KPIs for efficiency and downtime.
• Support training initiatives and serve as SME to enforce learning objectives.

Skills

Coaching

Organizational Skills

Adaptability

Communication

Customer-Oriented

Strategic Thinking

Process-Oriented

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Outlook

JDE

Job description

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 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
• JDE

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