Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. is a company with a rich history, culture, and an indomitable spirit to do good. For the past 75+ years, Atlantic Packaging has worked towards preserving the environment and ensuring not a single tree is cut to manufacture boxes. We are proud to state that we save close to 14 million trees every year and continue to work towards achieving a greener planet!

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. is privately owned and is headquartered in Scarborough, ON.

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. has 6 US entities: York Container Pennsylvania, York Container Elgin, Skybox Packaging, Stand Fast Group, Blackhawk Corrugated, and Champion Container Corp; with locations in Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

Job Summary:

The Converting Superintendent is responsible for the leadership, management, and technical problem solving of hourly employees to ensure safety, quality, waste, productivity, and training.

Additionally, the Converting Superintendent is responsible for executing the production business plan to meet departmental objectives to include but not limited to the following areas: safety training; accident investigation, managing work schedules, coaching, and training employees, developing corrective actions to proactively address problems and issues, machine waste reduction, set up reduction and increased throughput. In addition, assuring product quality is being produced to specifications. Cross training all direct reports within your respective discipline to ensure a more flexible and well-trained workforce. Following and enforcing all policies and regulations to remain compliant to all federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

This role is on site at our York Container Company Midwest location in Elgin, Illinois.

Essential Job Functions:

Provides leadership on the operating floor and strives for compliance in safety, quality, waste, and productivity.
Responsible for coaching, training, and developing operations personnel in safety, quality, production, problem solving, and technical aspects. Addresses key issues and concerns; and interacts with employees from other departments to ensure quality and on-time production.
Ensures all employees are working in a safe manner.
Ensures minimum quality expectations are followed and met on a daily basis.
Ensures best practices are being followed for minimization of waste at machine centers.
Tracks continuous improvement opportunities where performance issues are apparent and provides leadership/action plans for gap closures.
Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 6S efforts.
Identifies repairs needed at machine centers and creates work requests for completion; follow up as required.
Plans, assigns, and directs work for all hourly production employees; appraises performance and provides feedback as needed; assists in resolving complaints; holds employees accountable as needed; communicates issues and results on a daily basis.
Must possess problem solving/root cause analysis skills; leadership and interpersonal skills; ability to motivate teams to exceed expectation; communication, planning and organization skills; sense of urgency and accountability; customer focus; ability to work effectively in cross-functional team environment.

Other Functions:

· The ability to make effective, independent decisions.

· Must be detail oriented and can manage the details.

· Must be willing to “seek perfection” and can get others to follow this direction.

· Must be proactive.

· Must possess strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate.

· Computer literate with Microsoft Suite and other office equipment.

· Possess working knowledge of SPC (Statistical control).

· Ability to organize and prioritize work.

· Ability to multi-task and handle a few issues at one time.

In addition to the functions listed above, the employee is expected to: exercise honesty, integrity and respect with all clients and co-workers, maintain a professional appearance and demeanor, demonstrate a positive attitude, communicate effectively with co-workers and clients, work with accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail, maintain good attendance by working when and where directed, work safely in compliance with all safety policies, respect the work environment and keep it as neat and clean as possible, and exercise initiative to learn new skills and tasks and to help co-workers when possible. The employee is also expected to perform such other duties and functions as required and assigned from time to time.

Qualifications:

High School diploma or equivalent.
A minimum of 4 years of experience working in a manufacturing, production, industrial or military environment OR 2 years of professional experience and a Technical Diploma or higher in a business or engineering related field.
A minimum of 4 years of experience supervising employees within a manufacturing, production, industrial or lead experience within the paper industry.
Availability to work shift work and overtime as needed.
Experience using Microsoft Office programs such as Word (to write business correspondence), Excel (for use of spreadsheets, reporting, simple formulas) and Outlook (for internal and external correspondence).
Must possess problem solving/root cause analysis skills; leadership and interpersonal skills; ability to motivate teams to exceed expectation; communication, planning and organization skills; sense of urgency and accountability; customer focus; ability to work effectively in cross-functional team environment.
Ability to make independent, effective decisions.
Ability to effectively conduct meetings and training sessions.
Ability to organize and prioritize work.
Ability to multi-task and handle a number of issues at one time.
Computer literate with Microsoft Suite and other office equipment.
Experience leading an employee training/development program in an industrial manufacturing environment.
Prefer minimum 5 years of corrugated knowledge.
Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, business, engineering, or related field.
Experience working in Corrugated Packaging, Containerboard, Folding Carton, or Paper industries.
Experience working with CTI applications.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

We strive to create and maintain an inclusive and diverse workforce where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, citizenship, veteran status, gender identity or any other legally protected status.

Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of a job.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $66,477.59 - $80,059.04 per year

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance

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