Production Supervisor- Night Shift - Military Veterans

Overview
About BerryHarnessing the strength in our diversity and industry-leading talent of 40,000+ employees across more than 250 global locations, we develop, design, and manufacture innovative products with an eye toward the circular economy. At Berry Global, we believe in the extraordinary power of people and their unique talents, experiences, and perspectives that help shape a shared future of innovation, inspiration, and influence. Every employee at Berry Global has the opportunity to make their mark on our company and the world around us. Together, we champion a people-first culture that cultivates individual growth, diversity, and collaboration, unleashing our collective strengths to forge a path to greater success for our company, people, and planet. Are you ready to Make Your Mark at Berry? For more information, visit our website, or connect with us on LinkedIn or X.
Responsibilities

Safety:

• Accountable for the safety of all employees for whom they are responsible through active engagement in safety activities and provides clear, consistent communication of safe work expectations.
• Supports and investigates situations in which line/equipment stoppage occurs due to perceived, imminent safety risk.
• Completes responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and procedures, and applicable laws
• Actively leads risk assessment activities for their area of responsibility by driving prioritized corrective and preventive actions to eliminate/reduce environmental, health or safety risks.
• Lead all required meetings with safety (i.e. Pre-shift, Department, Change Management, General communication, Town Hall, etc.)
• Completes incident investigations, root cause analysis and implements corrective actions accordingly in a timely and thorough manner.
• Ensures the proper training and development of all assigned employees for whom they are responsible.
• Sets goals for their organizational unit; achieves goals and ensures that all employees understand and work toward achieving goals.
• Motivates and coaches employees through good communication and frequent performance feedback. Identifies and coordinates additional training as needed.

Production Operations:

• Ensure production operations are adhering to schedules established by determining work priorities and scheduling;
• Coordinate production activities for manufacturing areas to insure productions goals are achieved;
• Complete and submit production related paperwork;
• Ensure that manpower is properly utilized in order to achieve MES goal of 90%;
• Responsible for insuring that heldware and regrind are maintained at a level that meets the goal established for the plant.
• Responsible for maintaining the Food Safety Program (GMP)

Quality:

• Ensure that all Quality Plans are understood and followed by staff;
• Confirm that all quality checks are being performed by all production personnel as established by the Quality Plans;
• Work closely with the quality inspectors and supervisor to identify and minimize quality defects and complaints.

Personnel:

• Lead staff to accomplish activities in an efficient and safe manner by:
• Providing definition of job duties
• Providing training opportunities for staff
• Conducting performance evaluations
• Defining criteria for personnel advancement
• Administer coaching/counseling as required in a timely manner
• Provide accurate attendance records to human resources indicating any point assessments
• Enforce personnel policies and procedures; complete and submit all associated paperwork in a timely manner;
• Maintain safe working conditions with a goal of zero recordable accidents and zero lost time accidents;
• Control employee overtime hours.

Manufacturing Support:

• Assist other departments with special projects as assigned.
• Actively participate in production management team meetings as requested.
• Recommend/justify equipment/tooling purchases.
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the Quality Management System (ISO)

Authorities:

• Perform essential functions and assigned duties while communicating any deviations from the requirements to management
• Report any safety concerns to management and to shut down any equipment that presents a safety hazard
• Make management or appropriate parties aware of any potential nonconforming issue or mechanical problems
• Authority to shut down production or stop any machine for any reason deemed necessary

Qualifications

Education:

BS Degree in Business, Operations Management or equivalent experience.

Technical Skills:

Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and leadership to peers and subordinates

Demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment

Flexibility to work some overtime, as necessary

Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word

Experience:

3-5 years production supervision experience in a high volume-manufacturing environment.

Safety Competency Requirements:

• Safety Leadership - embodies commitment for a safe workplace; acts as a role model on safety leadership, activities and communication
• Accountability -holds self-accountable evidenced by say/do ratio, initiative and ownership actions (such as ensuring safety is more important than productivity)
• Communication - ability to communicate safety, goals and company expectations with appropriate levels of the organization; create clear, timely audience appropriate messages (both written and verbal).
• Engagement - communicate and support the vision of plant leadership; celebrate the wins, and ensure employees actively participate in safety-related activities.
• Team Development - understand the development needs of employees in your organization; drive the culture of employees as safety leaders; champion talent development from pre-hire to continuous learning.
• People Agility - understand personal strengths and weaknesses; leads by example; promotes change through listening skills and seeking frequent input from employees; is genuine and approachable; firm but fair - consistent.
• Problem Solving/Conflict Resolution - identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; mitigates relationship conflicts and encourages constructive (problem-solving) conflict.

Organization Relationships:

• Reports to Production Manager
• Interacts with Human Resources, Planner, Quality Control, Warehouse, Tool Room, and Maintenance.
• As needed interacts with Raw Material Suppliers, Customers.