Kitpacking Supervisor - B Shift in Rochester, New York at Flower City Group Inc

Join a fun, successful, and rapidly growing company in the printing and packaging industry! If you’re looking for a place where you can build your skills, contribute to a strong team, and grow your career, this is the perfect opportunity.

At Flower City Group, we Hustle, We Own, We Learn, We Invent, and We Believe.

Come be part of a culture that celebrates initiative, curiosity, and teamwork.

Schedule

This position is for our B Shift, Monday–Friday: 4:00 PM–12:30 AM with weekends based on business need

• Candidates must be willing to train on our A Shift: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:30 PM
• Training may last up to three months, depending on your learning pace and readiness to transition independently to the B Shift.

Summary/Objective:

Under the direction of the Kitpacking Manager, the Kitpacking Supervisor works to ensure all jobs are shipped out on time and in an orderly manner.

Essential Functions:

• Provide daily direction to Line Leads once schedule is set.
• Review first piece sample with Customer Service at the start of the job to verify specifications and assembly requirements. Verify sample is present at the start of production.
• Set up production lines for kit packing projects. Work with Receiving to organize and stage all material required for production by job.
• Work to ensure that quality requirements are understood by employees on the kit packing line.
• Coordinate first piece and during run quality checks with Quality team.
• Set the standard and communicate to all workers the required hourly output needed to complete each project. This is based on the quoted hours for all projects.
• Work with Line Leads to optimize efficiencies. Reviewing: Assembly processes (assembly line vs piece work), Distance traveled, Start times, down time, and Best in Class manufacturing processes.
• Work with Line Leads to complete scorecards and document hours charged to job.
• Analyze efficiencies on the line (actual vs estimated).
• Facilitate orderly breakdown and put away once jobs are complete.
• Train Flower City Group employees, as well as temporary workers, and communicate their responsibility in adhering to the four operating principles: Safety, Quality, Delivery and Flexibility.
• Ensure that the facility is always kept in a clean and orderly fashion.
• Work with Facility Manager, as well as the Human Resources Department to maintain a supply of candidates to fill openings as workflow dictates. Maintain an up-to-date phone contact list.
• Assists the Facility Manager with additional tasks as requested.
• Performs all other tasks/duties as may be assigned by Manager.

Competencies:

• Seeks guidance and direction as necessary for performance of duties.
• Demonstrates good judgment in investigating problems.
• Respects the confidentiality of company information.
• Maintains cooperative working relationship with supervisor.
• Demonstrates ability to tactfully handle difficult situations.
• Makes best use of time during the workday.
• Consistently shows ability to recognize and deal with priorities.
• Performs all duties in an independent manner with little supervision.
• Recognizes and performs duties which need to be performed although not directly assigned – assists others as needed.
• Does not abuse or take advantage of time off, always provides proper and advance notice of absence.
• Maintains a well-groomed appearance, appropriate for the industry.
• Makes “Safety” a top priority within all operations.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Proven success in a warehouse or fulfillment environment
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Strong background in production/manufacturing scheduling

Preferred Education and Experience:

• A two-year degree or equivalent from a technical school
• Two (2) years of work experience or an equivalent of four (4) years in the industry

Physical Demands:

• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Regularly required to sit, regular use of hands.
• Frequently required to stand and walk.
• Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and use foot/feet to operate machine.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
  The employee must be able to work under pressure with ever changing deadlines and priorities.

AAP/EEO Statement

Flower City Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, military status, status as a veteran or disabled veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or family status, genetic information, medical condition, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.