Sr. Packaging Manager

Core Power®

responsibilities: 

• Drives the growth of the department’s capability through a relentless focus on technical, leadership, and systems mastery.
• Has a deep and wide knowledge with change management and experience with transitioning an organization from traditional manufacturing principals to a TPM approach.
• Places a high value on safety, quality, manufacturing fundamentals, and people development which are foundational to the team’s culture, and this permeates all through the organization.
• Owns and drives a culture focused on zero losses through standardization and loss elimination.
• Accountable for the department’s results: meeting production goals, schedule attainment, meeting or exceeding scheduled OEE, deviations, FTT, scrap, CPM, budgetary spend and unit costs.
• Fully responsible to drive a high level of employee engagement for the team.
• Utilizes a CI and lean approach and tool set to solve and eliminate issues from recurrence.
• Oversees planning, execution, follow ups and corrective actions for all change-over activities and non-routine operational and maintenance actions.
• Has the leadership ability to back up the Director of Operations when this person is out of the plant for days at a time.
• Works to establish and cascade relevant Key Performance Indicators throughout the department and ensures timely reporting to peers, team members, and senior leaders.
• Reviews inventories and production plans daily with the site planning team, coordinating schedule demands with staff and product movement personnel.
• Supports key capital projects and commercialization projects relevant to the packaging department.
• Reviews all nonconforming products and materials with Quality Assurance and Packaging Engineering Team.
• Ensures compliance with GMP’s, sanitation, food safety and employee safety.
• Partners with our Maintenance team to ensure all equipment stays in reliable working condition.
• Manages team members across a 24/7 operation.
• Performs other duties as necessary.

skills/qualifications required:

• Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, brewing engineering, operations management, or other quantitative discipline with a demonstrated and proven knowledge of fluid dynamics in a beverage manufacturing environment, and
• At least five (5) years in manufacturing leadership. Dairy industry with both ESL and Aseptic experience or Brewing Industry experience with carbonated packaging across bottles, cans and kegs in a high-speed and high-volume environment is required with a demonstrated record of increasing responsibility, which must include at least two (2) years as a Shift Supervisor and at least one (1) year as a manager with proven favorable results, or
• At least eight (8) years of beverage industry manufacturing experience. Dairy industry with both ESL and Aseptic experience is highly preferred with a demonstrated record of increasing responsibility, which must include at least four (4) years as Shift Supervisor and (1) year as a Manager with demonstrated positive results for repeatable and reproducible schedule attainment and throughput.
• A self-starter who is driven by the thrill of continuous improvement daily.
• Organized and methodical thinker.
• Superior communication skills.
• Ability to read and understand P&ID’s.
• Preferred:
• Working knowledge of the regulatory and food safety requirements. PMO, FDA, PCQI, FSMA, CCPs and thermal processing and Preventive Controls
• Continuous Improvement mindset including root cause analysis, strategic planning, Lean, and TPM principals.
• Ability to meet production schedules with shifting priorities.
• Understanding the chemistry of cleaning and CIP/SIP/COP programs. An understanding of 3A guidelines is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

food safety requirements:

• Responsible for maintaining critical control points, aseptic requirements, and regulatory standards, at all times.
• Accountable for passing internal Quality and Food Safety program audits.
• Perform all duties necessary to meet Company, Customer and/or Government requirements/standards as prioritized by the Company.
• Ability to initiate action to prevent the occurrence of nonconformities relating to Food Safety and the Quality of the product, processes, quality system, or safety system.
• Identify and record any problems relating to Food Safety and the Quality of the ingredients, processes, quality system, or safety system.

position location:

travel requirements:

exempt/nonexempt: