Packaging Team Lead

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits 
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
• Medical, dental, vision plan
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

What You Will Enjoy Doing

•Coordinates with Shift Supervisor the packaging needs on production equipment

•Ensures all lines are adequately supplied with materials needed. For example:

• Labels
• Cartons
• Trays

•Conduct PPE compliance audits throughout the shift to ensure all safety requirements are followed

•Assists Packaging Operators as needed to ensure a smooth workflow

• Setup and operate multiple types of packaging equipment. Equipment may include, but is not limited to: carton erectors, partition inserters, product inserters, top closers, palletization equipment

•Lead assigned rework operations as the Packaging Operator, auditing processes throughout the shift to ensure procedural compliance and accurate paperwork completion.

•Ensures labels correctly match the product in facilities where manual labeling is required

•Manage and assign break schedule for packers

•Support troubleshooting and training initiatives for Packers

• Audit packer standard work and completion
• Audit packer quality checks and completion

Performance Metrics:

• Completion of staffing report for packer staff
• Completion of package paperwork
• Updated and completion of packer training documentation
• Efficiency

Competencies:

• Ensures Accountability
• Decision Quality
• Communicates Effectively
• Instills Trust
• Collaborates
• Values Differences
• Drives Results

Qualifications and Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Min. 6 months of Packaging Operator experience preferred
• Some lead experience preferred
• Good mechanical skills
• Capable of lifting 25 pounds and standing for a minimum of 12 hours
• Able to work with multiple types of equipment simultaneously

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essentialfunctions. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and
  very occasionally to climb or balance.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop,
  kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move
  up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by
adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). 

  ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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