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Assistant Production Manager

Alpla Inc.
Posted 6 days ago, valid for 6 months
Location

Saint Peters, MO 63376, US

Salary

$45,000 - $54,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

Retirement Plan
Life Insurance
Tuition Reimbursement

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  • ALPLA is a global packaging company that values employee well-being, offering benefits such as a health care program, childcare assistance, and a 401K retirement plan. The role involves assisting the production manager with daily tasks, training processes, and special projects, while ensuring compliance with training procedures. Candidates are required to have a minimum of a high school diploma, with a preference for a 4-year degree, and 2 to 4 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, particularly in the plastics industry. The position includes physical demands such as lifting up to 50 lbs and requires excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills. The salary for this position is not specified in the job description.

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

 

To assist the production manager regarding his daily tasks and to complete special projects assigend by the production manager. The person in this position is also responsible for the technical training and the training process itself.

 

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

  • Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits 
  • Child Care Benefits
  • Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
  • Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
  • 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
  • Medical, dental, vision plan
  • Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
  • Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
  • Paid vacation; paid holidays


WHAT YOU WILL ENJOY DOING

  • Training
    • Assists with New Hire Training
    • Executes follow-up training
    • Implements and trains new procedures
    • Ensures training procedures are followed
    • Ensures proper documentation is maintained
  • Project work
    • Supports Production Manager in project work such as:
      • Waste Control
      • Continuous Improvement
      • Real-time interaction with production floor by using MES/IT Systems
  • Daily Tasks
    • Checks packaging area
    • Coordinates label printing
    • Updates and posts graphs for daily walk through
    • Checks if all devices are up-to-date and functional
  • Planning
    • Compiles daily production plan together with Planner
    • Ensures all machine change-overs are performed in timely manner
  • Back up for
    • Production Manager and Production Supervisors
    • Quality Assurance
    • Planning
    • Coordination of all assigned activities during time of replacement
  • Troubleshooting
    • Tracks and resolves production issues
    • Escalates critical process problems to Production Manager
  • Performance Measurements:

    • Achievement of Production goals
    • Employees following procedures
    • Meet project deadlines
    • High level of Acceptance Rate of Notes System
    • All devices are connected and fulfill required standards of Regional OPEX/IT
    • Proper documentation of production issues

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable 
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job:

  • The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance.
  • The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
  • The employee is occasionally required to sit.
  • The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or
    move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #salaried #STP

 

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

 

What Makes You Great

 

Education/Experience:

  • Min. High School Diploma, 4-year degree preferred
  • 2 to 4 years' experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably within Plastics Industry

Qualifications/Skills:

  • Excellent Communication and Organizational skills
  • Leadership Skills
  • Technical understanding (Manufacturing and IT)
  • Strong knowledge sharing/training skills

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