Department Manager

Description

The Department Manager provides leadership, coordination, and technical subject matter expertise to ensure the departments are achieving all key objectives. Designs, directs, and manages all printing and die cut day-to-day production within specific guidelines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage department personnel:

o Accountable for hiring, maintaining, training, and terminating staff within the department in coordination with Human Resources and the Plant Operations Manager.

o Accountable for managing staffing levels, overtime, time-off/ timecard approvals, regular and frequent performance conversations, disciplinary actions, and policy adherence.

o Responsible for ensuring employees within the department are taught and utilize GMP, Food Safety, Quality, HAACP, and Safety practices in accordance with corporate, plant, and auditing rules and guidelines.

o Motivate and engage work teams to accomplish operational objectives, maintaining a solid floor presence.

o Recognize and develop employee skills, abilities, and talents to create a succession plan and promote growth opportunities.

• Achieve forecast and budget targets:

o Measure and analyze key production and operating data.

o Oversee and chair productivity improvement meetings with technical leads and supervisors.

o Minimize waste by ensuring waste reduction and improvement processes are being communicated, followed, measured, and corrected to reach targets.

o Review all production run estimates for printing to ensure all necessary equipment and consumables are present to produce work and equipment run speeds are being met.

• Manufacture a quality product that meets customer requirements:

o Work with Quality Manager on quality improvement initiatives and corrective action to customer complaints.


o Prepare department staff to handle customer and HACCP audits, municipal and customer inspections, and plant tours.

o Conduct and document regular internal audits to measure outcomes, maintain compliance and attest to quality throughput for customers.


• Work with Engineering, Maintenance, and suppliers to ensure the layout, installation, and start-up of new equipment is performed efficiently, cost-effectively, and safely.

• Participate in an active role in Leadership Team Meetings and establish trusting relationships with other managers to coordinate and support all plant operations.

• Ensure, where applicable, the product safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and legality of all products produced and sold.

• Work in accordance with all company policies and procedures regarding employment, safety, quality, product safety and legality, security, and regulatory compliance as applicable.

• Additional duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS: (education, experience, specific skills, machinery/tools, etc.)

• Minimum 10 years of manufacturing leadership.

• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, making informed decisions quickly.

• Proven track record of accomplishments and results in the areas of safety, productivity, and product quality.

• BRC, SFQ, HAACP, Six Sigma experience preferred but not required.

• Excellent computer skills working with Microsoft products, and SAP.

Working Conditions

• Ability to work in a hot or cold environment.

• Work around solvents, ink, and adhesives used in the manufacturing process.

• Must wear the necessary PPE for all phases of the job.

o Safety steel shoes, hearing protection, safety glasses, hairnet, beard net, etc.


Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear. Frequently required to walk or climb. Frequently required to stand. Frequently ascend/descend stairs, push, pull, bend and reach. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.