Production Manager

Korpack; Bloomingdale (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Korpack is seeking a Production Manager in Bloomingdale, IL who can lead one of North America’s premier co-packing operations. You will oversee output, quality, and labor cost across up to 120 people, with a focus on high-mix, frequent changeovers, and real-time dashboard management.

You will drive labor efficiency, shorten changeover times, and ensure SQF/GMP compliance while coordinating shift staffing and weekend on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production leadership in packaging, food, or CPG manufacturing.
• Labor-cost track record with numeric results and impact.
• Measurable OEE improvements in availability, performance, or quality.
• Experience with high-mix/high-variability environments and frequent changeovers.
• Temp-heavy labor model and SQF/GMP experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the Shift and lead up to 120 people via Supervisors and Line Leads.
• Manage output, OEE, quality, and labor cost with real-time dashboards.
• Execute a 4-3-3-4 scheduling pattern and on-site Monday–Friday with weekend on-call.
• Drive changeover discipline and continuous improvement to reduce downtime.
• Collaborate daily with Production Control / Materials teams to ensure floor execution.

Skills

Production leadership

OEE improvement

High-mix variability

Labor-cost control

Changeover discipline

People management

Job description

About the Role

Korpack is on a mission to become North America's premier packaging solutions provider. The person in this seat runs the floor that mission depends on.

This is not a role for steady-state operators. Single-product plants where the line runs the same SKU for a month are a different sport — and honestly, an easier one. Korpack is food-grade (SQF) co-packing: up to 18 lines, 120+ people on your shift (Day), new items weekly, frequent changeovers, a temp-heavy labor model, and customers whose launches don't wait. We are hiring a Production Manager who has run large, messy, high-variety plants and made them efficient anyway.

Responsibilities

• Own the Shift
• Output, OEE, quality, and labor cost for up to 120 people across rotating crews, through your Production Supervisors and Line Leads.
• Your crews run a 4-3-3-4 schedule, including weekends; you work Monday–Friday on-site and carry weekend on-call.
• Maximize OEE Where It's Hardest
• Run rates, changeover time, labor efficiency, WO completion — managed in real time, by dashboard, not by feel.
• Changeover discipline is the difference between a good and bad day in co-packing. You drive it.
• Own Labor Cost
• Flex a temp-heavy crew against a variable schedule and deliver output at a labor cost that trends down as a percent of production.
• Kill Barriers
• Staffing gaps, material waits, equipment issues, decision bottlenecks — a line waiting on anything is your problem to kill.
• Daily sync with your shift's Production Control / Materials counterpart — an equal, not a report. The floor makes it; they make it official.

Qualifications

Required — Demonstrated, Not Claimed

• 5+ years of production leadership in packaging, food, or CPG manufacturing, managing supervisors at a plant of 80+ people and multiple lines.
• A labor-cost story you can tell with numbers: what it was, what you changed, what it became.
• An OEE track record: measurable improvement you drove — availability, performance, or quality — and how.
• High-mix / high-variability experience: frequent changeovers, short runs, variable schedules.
• Temp-heavy labor model and food-grade (SQF/GMP) experience.

Preferred

Pay range and compensation package

$110,000–$130,000 plus performance bonus. Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life, and LTD benefits; 401(k) with company match; generous PTO. A plant that's doubling, a Director who just joined to build it right, and a seat where operational excellence is visible to everyone — including the CEO.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We're looking for someone who lives our core values every day: D – Determined I – Innovative S – Smile R – Responsive U – Understanding P – Proactive T – Teamwork. DISRUPT isn't a poster in our lobby — it's the bar.

For those who want more than just a job: If you're a barrier-killing, dashboard-driven operator who gets restless when things run too smoothly — we want to hear from you.