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Production Area Leader - 12 hour nights in Plastipak

Position Summary

The Beverage Area Leader reports to the Beverage Team Leader and is responsible for working with team members to meet set objectives for assigned production lines and monitor safety, quality, reliability, and scrap. 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

  • Work in a safe and efficient manner at all times
  • Maintain positive and safe culture by completing monthly 360 training, safety observations, and near miss observations

  • Initiate action for food safety issues

  • Ensure effective communication between shifts

  • Verify blow molder process settings are accurate and within the standard process parameters

  • Enter proper and accurate downtime notifications and repair work orders into SAP

  • Maintain PSAs in a timely manner

  • Follow production schedule and work orders to ensure correct product is being produced

  • Identify, prioritize, and report problems with recommended solutions to be addressed during scheduled down times

  • Enter proper and accurate downtime and repair work orders into SAP

  • Ensure quality product through proper testing, data entry and observation

  • Participate in team meetings

  • Report non-conformities, production, machine or quality issues on process to the beverage team leader

  • Direct and monitor work flow and daily functions of the team

  • Train team members on SAP functions for daily activity (label returns, scrap, downtime, etc.)

  • Serve as back up production technician as needed (covering breaks, absent associates, etc.)

  • Follow production schedule and work orders so that correct product is being produced

  • Determine reason and best course of action for repairs/improvements when lines are not running accurately

  • Focus on continuous improvement in areas of maintenance, safety, quality, reliability, and productivity

  • Miscellaneous related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

  • High school diploma or general education degree
  • Three or more years of manufacturing experience

  • Relevant mechanical aptitude and technical knowledge

  • Resilient leadership skills

  • High level of personal integrity

  • Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

  • Ability to work effectively within a team environment

  • Proficient in computer programs (Iconics and SAP experience preferred)

  • Ability to multitask in a fast paced environment

  • Retain strong customer focus in all areas

  • Self-motivated

  • Physical Demands and Work Environment

  • Lifting Requirements: 25 – 75 lbs.

  • Vision Requirements: close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

  • Constant: Use arms, hands, and fingers to feel and/or reach, speak, and listen

  • Frequent: Push and/or pull carts/bins, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl

  • Occasional: Sit, climb, and balance

  • Environment: Exposed to high levels of noise

PositionProduction Area Leader - 12 hour nights
Job Category Manufacturing
Industry TypePlastic Manufacturing
Location of JobWestland, MI
SalaryNS
Last Date to Apply07 December 2016
Desired Candidate's Profile

Plastipak Packaging is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of plastic rigid containers of the highest quality. Plastipak supports manufacturing operations throughout the United States, South America and Europe.

A Business Based on Ethical Standards

Plastipak operates by meeting expectations for ethical conduct as well as financial goals — all without compromising its integrity. Indeed, we have built a global business culture based on honor, openness and inclusion.As Plastipak expanded to include locations on three continents, respect for human dignity has remained fundamental to how the company conducts its business. We actively participate in the communities in which Plastipak associates work and live.With suppliers and customers in agreement, Plastipak works to meet high conservation standards while enhancing the health and safety of its employees and communities.Plastipak has aligned both its business and sustainability practices to create a culture of inclusion for associates throughout the company's international operations.

Supportive Environment

The Workplace
Plastipak's most important resource is our associates.
Plastipak operates with an appreciation for individual contributions and innovation. Plastipak associates contribute to:

  • Maintaining high performance in order to achieve outstanding customer service
  • Designing innovative products positioning Plastipak as a global leader in packaging
  • Improving communities where Plastipak has a presence

Plastipak does the following for associates:

  • Pays fair wages based on industry standards
  • Offers benefits such as health insurance, life insurance and paid vacations
  • Provides a safe work environment
  • Relates fairly and honestly with associates
  • Complies with the minimum age laws in all countries where it conducts business
  • Complies with all laws supporting workplace diversity

Open Communication

Mutually respectful and trusting relationships require open communication. Each associate must feel free to communicate opinions, share ideas and resolve problems in an environment that encourages and promotes opportunities for success and professional growth.Plastipak actively promotes open and honest communication as demonstrated by the company's “Open Line Communication System.” This system allows an associate to ask a question or voice a concern confidentially via the Corporate Talent Management Department.

Our Global Initiatives Thrive on Effective Management

As global producers of plastic containers, we have a responsibility from design to disposal to meet sustainability demands. Our sustainability initiatives are guided by a Bottle to Bottle approach to recycling.Plastipak holds itself accountable to stakeholders to run operations in an environmentally friendly manner for current and future generations. We have made that goal an inseparable part of our business plan.

Protecting the Environment

The impact of climate change and the threat to the environment from pollutants are too big to ignore, and Plastipak is doing everything possible to protect the future of the planet.The company is committed to social responsibility for environmental guardianship and its leadership in sustainability. Plastipak is meeting the goals set by the company's formal conservation plan.

Under this plan Plastipak has initiated a program to reduce compressed air leakage throughout all of our U.S. operations, achieve greater fuel economy, reduce volatile emissions and expand lightweighting programs to reduce the amount of plastic in each container. Plastipak engineers its source materials, technologies, transportation, distribution and recycling scenarios to fit customer sustainability requirements as well. 

Sustainability Means Engagement

Engagement is important to Plastipak. By engaging the hearts and minds of associates, Plastipak creates unique and sustainable packaging solutions for its customers. Consumers and corporations alike must be engaged in order to sustain the planet's resources.Such unified engagement has powerful, long-reaching effects. Participation in conservation initiatives has a positive impact on the economic, human and natural environments. 

A Modern Recycling Facility

Clean Tech's recycling processes focus on the effective management of the life cycle of plastic containers. Clean Tech’s highly qualified engineers design unique technologies to maximize plastic’s beneficial features throughout a product's life cycle and its subsequent lives as recycled material.

Clean Tech engineers follow company directives to reduce material use and weight, where feasible, which in turn yields lower energy and transportation costs. High material production standards are always met to ensure that recycled materials can stand up to quality package demands for maintaining product freshness.

Making Good Use of Recycled Materials

Plastipak uses the inherent resilience of plastics as a key resource for developing sensible, environmentally-friendly packaging lines.Plastics are flexible, durable and endlessly recyclable, permitting limitless use and reuse. The recyclable nature of plastics opens the way for Plastipak to construct its manufacturing to help reclaim bottles rather than only creating new plastics.Clean Tech provides the critical component of this system with its capability of recycling HDPE and PET bottles to produce highly useful post consumer materials.

We Reuse Our Own Recycled Materials
Plastipak's commitment to using renewable and recyclable materials along with reduced content is at the heart of its sustainability initiative. The company manufactures an array of containers for both food and non-food products using recycled plastic produced by Clean Tech. For instance, Clean Tech recycled material replaces at least 10% of the plastic content for a line of beverage bottles.

ExperienceThree or more years of manufacturing experience
QualificationHigh school diploma or general education degree
Contact Details
Contact NameHR
Contact Email erecruiting[at]plastipak.com
Website http://www.plastipak.com/
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