Description

Now hiring! Come work at a place to build your future and be an integral part of a fast-paced, safety-oriented, and growing industry! We are an ESSENTIAL employer that is ACTIVELY HIRING at our Cary, IL facility!

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with comprehensive product offerings. Providing creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We are guided in our work by five core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement and Impact.

The safety and health of our team is our top priority. ProAmpac has taken great steps to provide all personal protective equipment and sanitizing supplies to create a safe and healthy work environment for you.

We currently have an opening for a Team Lead - Press Department on the 1st shift, available at our Cary, IL facility. ProAmpac is looking for you to join our team!

What ProAmpac has to offer:

• Quarterly Attendance Bonus

• Premium pay built into your shift schedule

• Paid Time Off (PTO) with 2 additional personal days

• 11 paid company holidays

• 401k with company match

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and other supplemental offerings

• Company-provided life insurance

• Disability insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Wellness program – living a healthy lifestyle can get you a discount on your health insurance premiums AND other incentives

Essential Tasks/Duties

This position is responsible for meeting the goals and objectives of the organization by overseeing or assisting with the day-to-day activities for the press department(s) or machine center(s). Ensuring efficient production processes, maintaining quality standards, and providing leadership to a team of operators to meet production targets.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made, upon request, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Lead and coach a team of press operators to meet production goals, coordinating or assisting with activities of team members as necessary.

• Monitors processes to address issues, minimize downtime, and maximize efficiency, seeks out opportunities to improve established manufacturing practices, and anticipates inefficiencies, bringing constructive solutions.

• Enforces quality control measures to meet specifications and customer requirements.

• Troubleshoot equipment issues and implement solutions, collaborating with maintenance teams and any other applicable departments.

• Trains and provides coaching to employees.

• Support an environment that aligns with ProAmpac's core values, while ensuring the team is following protocols pertaining to safety, quality, production, documentation, reporting, and any other applicable manufacturing process or procedures.

• Adhere to all safety guidelines and procedures, to prevent accidents or injuries. Wear appropriate personal protective equipment(PPE) as required by safety policies and reports any safety hazards or concerns to the appropriate team member, hold all departmental EE’s accountable to those standards.

• Communicates production status and performance trends to management. Maintain or improve report out metrics and boards.

• Support activities including analysis of department costs, investigation of significant variances, corrective actions, and communication too teams of actions taken.

• Effectively works with other departments or team members, such as production scheduling, maintenance team members, supervisors, and machine operators to ensure timely production and prioritization of orders.

• Monitor departmental operator and maintenance PM’s for attainment and effectiveness.

• Actively review the departments tooling and resources (aniloxs, sleeves, etc) for effectiveness and wear, address issues as needed.

• Ensure inks and plates are properly reviewed and approved along with ordered, disposed, reused, and managed.

• Ownership of the departments care plan, overall cleanliness and upkeep of the equipment in conjunction with maintenance.

• All other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• HS/GED required; AS preferred.

• 2-4 years' experience in a related field preferred.

• Leadership experience preferred.

• Maintains strict confidentiality and protects privacy of confidential/sensitive information.

• Exceptional time management and organization skills. Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously establishing priorities to meet deadlines.

• Ability to communicate effectively (verbal, written, and presentations) with executive leadership, staff, and internal and external clients.

• Proactive; exercises sound judgment and decision-making; able to identify problems and needs and develop solutions and/or options.

• Self-confident, self-motivated polished professional who thrives in a challenging, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

Education

Required

• High School or better

Experience

Required

• 2-5 years: 2-5 years' experience in a related field preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Job Category: Operations/Production/Manufacturing

Full-Time