Manufacturing Value Stream Leader -- Extrusion & Converting

Job Description

Job Description

Lead the Flow of a High-Output Operation

Step into a hands-on leadership role where your day starts on the floor and your impact is felt across the line. As the Manufacturing Value Stream Leader for our Converting and Extrusion areas, you will plan, direct, and coordinate production activities to keep safety first, quality precise, and schedules on track—while elevating people and processes every shift.

You begin with a Daily GEMBA walk, engaging with operators and supervisors, removing roadblocks, and setting priorities. You conduct targeted audits for Standard Work, Housekeeping, and Roll Scanning, then huddle on results and actions. Midday, you review shift scorecards (posted twice monthly), align overtime needs, and verify SABA safety training completion. You’ll be on the floor supporting the shift supervisor to boost uptime, then move to metrics and budget reviews—turning data into plans that advance service, quality, and cost performance. Throughout, you’re coaching, hiring to close staffing gaps, and ensuring environmentally compliant, clean, and orderly operations.

• Champion strategies that deliver top-tier safety, quality, service, productivity, and profitability.
• Advance initiatives safeguarding the health, security, and welfare of all employees.
• Maintain safe, clean, orderly, and environmentally compliant production operations.
• Provide inclusive oversight of all production and production support activities in line with company policies, principles, procedures, values, and standards.
• Continuously assess strategies, systems, procedures, performance, capabilities, equipment, facilities, and staffing to optimize safety, flow, service, quality, and profitability.
• Develop, implement, and sustain quality assurance protocols.
• Ensure production activities meet schedule and budget targets.
• Track staffing needs and hire as needed.
• Conduct Daily GEMBA; perform daily audits for Standard Work, Housekeeping, and Roll Scanning.
• Maintain and post shift scorecards twice monthly.
• Assist with attendance and performance write-ups; support completion of SABA safety training.
• Coordinate OT schedules; support the shift supervisor on the floor to improve uptime.
• Lead, motivate, and support the production team, including career development and problem resolution.
• Manage data collection and update metrics to hit productivity targets, reduce cost per unit, eliminate errors, and deliver excellent customer service.
• Oversee materials and inventory.
• Conduct budget reviews and report cost plans to corporate leadership.
• Willingly perform other duties as assigned.

• High school diploma required; secondary education and/or leadership training preferred.
• Thorough knowledge of production processes to oversee the bag-making process.
• 5–10+ years of experience in a production environment.
• Proven ability to work with minimal supervision and partner effectively at all organizational levels.
• Strong communication skills across shop floor and leadership teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and readiness to learn new systems.
• Willing and able to work overtime.
• Proficiency in leadership/people management.

Your leadership will directly influence uptime, safety outcomes, cost per unit, on-time delivery, and a culture of continuous improvement in our Converting and Extrusion operations.