Supervisor, Packaging Front Line

Packaging Department Supervisor

Provide leadership and direction to teammates to attain short- and long-term goals, optimize team effectiveness, and meet daily work schedules in the Packaging Department. Drive improvements in safety, quality, morale, and cost control. Achieve departmental goals and metrics by supervising packaging teammates, to achieve safety goals, productivity goals, material usage targets, inventory targets, product quality requirements and equipment yield.

This position is based at an active mine site and requires daily onsite presence. Work conditions may include uneven terrain, climbing ladders, navigating steps, and exposure to varying weather conditions such as heat, rain, or mud.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure teammates perform work according to established safety rules and practices, environmental and housekeeping standards while striving for ZERO Accidents.
• Understands customer quality requirements, assures teammates understand and follow these requirements.
• Implements and assures procedures are followed to detect and eliminate nonconforming incoming supplies.
• Implements and assures procedures are followed for the department.
• Partner with Human Resources in staffing and retention.
• Coordinate purchase of supplies necessary to ensure functioning of the department.
• Coordinate with Processing Supervisor to ensure clay supply for operations is satisfactory.
• Supervise, train, develop, and review staff.
• Plans operations, establishing priorities and sequences for packaging products.
• Communicate key metrics to Plant leadership and production teams to stimulate process improvement and cost reduction.
• Partner with Maintenance and Process Improvement to coordinate maintenance activities to meet established preventative maintenance goals.
• Maintain procedure manuals and training aids
• Establish and ensure effectiveness of teammates training
• Gather and analyze data; make recommendations for process improvements and cost reductions.
• Meet line efficiency goals along with crew efficiencies and maximize daily production.
• Complete required reporting and documentation.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education:

• Experience with an ERP Manufacturing system preferred
• 2 years' experience in a manufacturing environment, proven leadership experience preferred

Skills & Abilities:

• Experience in bulk material handling and packaging equipment supplies desired
• Proficient in excel, word, mathematical skills, computer skills and reasoning ability.
• Possess core values of Honesty and Integrity.
• Strong communication skills
• Bending, reaching, twisting, stooping, walking, and climbing stairways and ladders frequently.
• Must be able to climb ladders up to 110 feet.
• Must be able to talk and hear radio communications as well as phone.
• Must be able to function in the required role while wearing appropriate PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) including, but not limited to: Safety glasses, hearing protection, dust mask, protective coveralls, and pother as may be required by a hot/cold, dusty, loud industrial environment.

Oil-Dri Corporation of America is a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialty sorbent products for consumer and business-to-business markets that has been voted as a Top 100 workplaces in the Chicago Tribune. Oil-Dri's products are sold in the pet care, animal health, fluids purification, agricultural, sports field, industrial and automotive markets. Oil-Dri controls millions of tons of specialty mineral reserves, including calcium bentonite, attapulgite, and diatomaceous shale. The company's mines and manufacturing facilities are located in Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, and California. Oil-Dri is a family-controlled and operated organization that emphasizes honesty, integrity, and accountability. The company is dedicated to fulfilling its mission to Create Value From Sorbent Minerals.

Oil-Dri is committed to providing equal opportunity for all teammates and qualified candidates without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Accordingly, all employment decisions and personnel actions or programs such as hiring, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, transfers, reductions in workforce, and training, etc. will be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity.