Description

ProAmpac is searching for a Plant Manager to join our Innovation team at our Hanover Park, IL manufacturing plant.

ProAmpac is a leading global flexible packaging company with a comprehensive product offering. We provide creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. We continue to grow and would love for you to join our team!

At ProAmpac, our culture is key to our long-term success. We strive to be authentic as we live out the heritage of our small business culture. We value the connections we’ve created, and our employees feel empowered in their shared efforts to innovate successfully. ProAmpac was founded on the idea that a focus on material science will drive innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers, supported by our five core values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement, and Impact – that foster a culture of speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

Our company is made stronger by challenging ourselves and each other, while we move what matters forward. With a focus on performance and a passion for our work, we are not bound by organizational hierarchy. We are committed to serving our customers and the communities in which we work and live.

By joining us, you become an integral part of an entrepreneurial company in a fast-paced, exciting environment that provides varied opportunities for professional and personal growth.

ProAmpac Perks:

ProAmpac is building a wellness culture through its PRO360 initiative: An interactive, fully integrated wellbeing program designed to engage, encourage, and reward all team members on their personal pathway to better health, wealth, growth, and community involvement. Our goal is to ensure 100% of team members achieve a basic level of wellness. Additionally, subject to applicable eligibility requirements, we offer full-time employees a variety of benefits including:

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(K) with exceptional company match

Generous paid time off (PTO), plus 11 holidays per calendar year

Free life and short-term disability insurance

Wellness, employee discount and rewards programs

Tuition reimbursement

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 ensure individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Support an environment of Honesty, Candidness & Transparency, Teamwork (no hidden agendas), Accountability: Do What You Say and Goal Driven: Fact Based Decisions

• Comply with all Safety, Operational and Employment policies and practices

• Overall supervision of production activities and personnel

• Ensure subordinates are trained and competent in complying with product quality and food safety requirements

• Day-to-day compliance with quality, food safety and prerequisite programs

• Follow quality requirements to meet or exceed specifications

• Work with quality and supervisory team on developing and executing corrective action plans related to quality concerns: complaints, global corrective actions, and other quality issues

• Must have scheduling flexibility to meet the demands of a 24/7 operation

• Develop and administer plans and programs to meet production requirements by establishing operating objectives and recommending staffing and manufacturing needs.

• Analyze operational costs, investigate significant variances, create and implement corrective action, and keep production management fully informed of actions taken

• Monitor and control process/maintenance costs and production levels to remain within budgetary goals

• Use fact-based team problem solving techniques to identify and solve problems

• Support “best demonstrated practices” by communicating and cooperating with team members to implement technological changes, exchange experiences, ideas, and solutions to operating problems/challenges

• Ensure there is an ongoing program to control and reduce cost, improve quality and operating efficiency

• Coordinate with local and corporate CI resources on site initiatives around process improvement, eliminating wastes, and optimizing flow in all manufacturing processes to drive project execution and deliver on savings

• Maintain a strong internal customer focus by cooperating with other departments and support groups

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining an effective communications program which includes communicating plant mission and results and providing customer feedback to all team members.

• Maintain high levels of team member performance and morale through ongoing monitoring, coaching, guidance and continuous feedback

• Ensure all team members have proper authority to conduct job duties as assigned

• Foster an environment of continuous improvement, involvement, teamwork, customer focus (internal/external) by agreeing upon goals, communicating expectations, providing training, resources, equipment, encouragement and displaying the expectation to make fact-based decisions

• Participate in all safety, quality, operations planning, technical and other applicable site meetings outside the scope of production to ensure all teams are functioning with the same objectives and plans

• Establish common goals, communicate expectations and provide training resources as need to the team

• Manage and control inventory levels per established guidelines

• Resolve food safety concerns

• Performs other duties as needed

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