Description
Position Title: Corrugator Supervisor
Reports To: Corrugator Superintendent
Job Summary
The Corrugator Supervisor is responsible for overseeing a team of approximately ten employees, ensuring the safe and efficient production of high-quality board with minimal waste. This role includes cross-training employees in critical positions and maintaining an environment focused on safety and productivity.
Key Responsibilities
- Quality & Production: Ensure production meets or exceeds quality, efficiency, and waste targets set by management, and communicate these standards to the team.
- Quality Issues: Report quality concerns to the Corrugator and Plant Superintendent, and contribute to defining quality guidelines.
- Team Morale & Support: Foster high morale by demonstrating fairness, consistency, and empathy towards employees. Maintain confidentiality in all matters.
- Inventory Management: Oversee inventories of roll stock and corrugator supplies.
- Coordination with Maintenance: Work closely with the supervisor and Maintenance team for any necessary repairs or preventive maintenance within the department.
- Problem Resolution: Inform upper management of any issues affecting the department's performance and apply corrective action when necessary.
- Meetings: Hold weekly Production/Safety meetings with departmental personnel to address key concerns and safety standards.
- Shift Coordination: Ensure smooth handovers between shifts by communicating effectively with shift supervisors.
- Professional Development: Enhance career skills through technical courses, seminars, and college-level courses.
- Policy & Compliance: Uphold all company policies, safety programs, and good housekeeping practices.
- Additional Responsibilities: Perform other duties as assigned by management.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Directly supervise all employees in the department, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and applicable laws.
- Handle key supervisory tasks such as training, performance evaluations, discipline, conflict resolution, team-building, coaching, and setting an example of exemplary behavior.
Education and Experience
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Minimum of two years of prior supervisory experience.
- Preferred: Experience in the corrugated industry.
Skills and Qualifications
- Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, maintenance manuals, and procedures. Capable of writing routine reports and speaking effectively with groups of employees or customers.
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to use a tape measure accurately and calculate percentages, measurements, volume, and rate. Apply basic high school-level math concepts.
- Reasoning Skills: Ability to apply logical thinking to follow instructions in written, oral, or graphic form and address problems with multiple variables.
- Technical Skills: Working knowledge of equipment design and operational capabilities, cost control, quality standards, and regulatory requirements (e.g., OSHA, DEQ, EEO).
Certifications & Licenses
- May require maintaining a current Lift Truck Operator License.
Physical Demands
- Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands, and reach with arms. Must occasionally sit, stoop, kneel, or crouch.
- Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, with occasional lifting up to 100 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustments.
Work Environment
- Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, wet or humid conditions, and occasional high or precarious places.
- Periodic exposure to fumes, airborne particles, and vibration.
- Noise level is typically loud.
Leadership Attributes
The ideal candidate will exhibit the following qualities:
- Time Management: Ability to manage multiple issues concurrently and lead efficient meetings.
- Teaching & Training Skills: Effective at teaching technical and administrative tasks to staff.
- Crisis Management: Ability to remain calm and composed under pressure, leading the team through challenges.
- Employee Relations: Skilled in active listening, feedback, conflict resolution, and employee motivation.
- Leadership Confidence: Demonstrates professional assertiveness while maintaining a consistent leadership style.
Performance Metrics
- Operating Standards: Achieve or surpass quality, cost, safety, customer satisfaction, and productivity targets.
- Personal Growth: Work toward continuous professional development with goals established in collaboration with a superior.
- Employee Relations: Evaluate leadership effectiveness based on motivation techniques, feedback, team development, and work environment improvement.
- Creativity: Contribute innovative ideas for business advancement.
