Production Supervisor

Great Northern Job Opportunity

Founded in 1962, Great Northern is a local, privately-owned paper-based packaging manufacturer known for its secure, stable, and rewarding careers. We foster a collaborative, safe, clean, and enjoyable workplace where team members support and uplift each other.

Our team produces sustainable, eco-friendly products that reach national brands, influencing people's daily lives.

At Great Northern, we are dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of our team members, customers, and the communities we serve.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and ensure safety, quality and productivity of our production staff.
• Recognize good performance and acknowledge team members.
• Ensure policies and procedures are followed, which includes administering corrective discipline.
• Record absenteeism and attendance.
• Delegate team members to tasks when needed, and assist in scheduling personnel on overtime.
• Respond, record, and investigate accidents and administer first aid.
• Ensure production floor feedback is accurately recorded in Kiwi system.
• Supply tooling and resources to team members and machines.
• Communicate interdepartmentally to make accurate decisions of customer orders, maintenance on machines, and team member training.
• Use computer to enter customer orders in machine line-up, check inventory, team member scanning in and out of work, and corrugator schedule lineup.
• Participate and facilitate communication meetings with team members pertaining to safety, toolbox discussions, daily production walks, preventative maintenance meetings and monthly Crew Leader meetings.
• Write up, and/or approve maintenance work orders.
• Participates in continuous improvement and effectively communicate opportunities to improve efficiencies and effectiveness for this position.
• Provides direction and leadership to team members in all departments as needed.

Compensation:

Salary is negotiable based on education and experience.

Potential for bonus opportunities.

Schedule:

Rotating between 3 shifts (6am-2pm, 2pm to 10pm, 10pm to 6am).

Partner Responsibility when other Supervisors are on Vacation.

Benefits:

• 401k with employer match and profit sharing
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Paid vacation
• Health & Wellness
• Medical Insurance
• Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• On-site Clinic and Nurse Practitioner and Physical Therapist, free of charge for team members and their family
• Health Fitness Reimbursement
• Steel Toed Shoe Reimbursement
• Opportunities for team member advancement and compensation level

Preferred Skills:

Prior Production Supervisory experience

Proficiency in Excel, including but not limited to:

• Pivot Tables
• VLOOKUP's
• Equations and Conditional Calculations
• Creating and maintaining automated reports

Expectation:

To be successful your teammates will depend on you to have pride in your work, be on time, work safely, work effectively with others, be optimistic, take ownership of your responsibilities, and look for continuous improvement opportunities.

Great Northern is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any team member or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin.