Packing Production Supervisor at Edsal Manufacturing – Gary, Indiana

Monomoy Capital Partners is a private equity firm with $1.5 billion in committed capital across three fund vehicles. Monomoy makes control investments in middle-market businesses in the manufacturing, industrial, distribution, and consumer sectors. Monomoy designs and executes a customized value creation plan for each business that seeks to generate significant cash flow and improve earnings within 12 to 18 months of a Monomoy investment. Since the firm was formed in 2005, Monomoy has grown from its three founders to a firm of over 40 professionals. Monomoy acquired Edsal in 2018.

The Packaging Production Supervisor is responsible for leading daily packaging production operations, ensuring quality standards are met, productivity targets are achieved, and a safe and efficient work environment is maintained. The Gary facility operates as a packing and distribution plant operating up to four packing lines, utilizing manual labor and automation to pack products for rapid distribution.

This role requires a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced packaging segment of manufacturing environment and demonstrates critical thinking skills, attention to detail, and the ability to lead packing line operations while resolving operation and equipment-related issues in real time.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk for extended periods throughout the shift on a production floor. The employee is required to use hands and arms to reach, handle, and manipulate materials, equipment controls, tools, and packaging components.

The employee is frequently required to bend, twist, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, or climb as needed to monitor production lines, troubleshoot equipment, and support operational workflow. The employee must have the ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally assist with moving materials or products during line setup, changeovers, or operational disruptions.

Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus in a manufacturing environment. The employee must also possess sufficient hearing to safely respond to equipment alarms, audible warnings, and verbal communication on the production floor.

Mental demands include the ability to maintain situational awareness in a fast-paced production environment, prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously, respond to operational issues in real time, interpret work orders and production specifications, and make sound decisions under time constraints while maintaining attention to detail and adherence to safety and quality standards.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work is performed in an office, but may require going to the plant or warehouse, where temperatures may vary, and noise levels are high. Personal Protective Equipment is required, i.e. safety glasses, ear protection, steel toe shoes, protective gloves.

After a conditional offer of employment has been extended for the Production Manager position, candidates entering this job classification will be required to complete a job-related post-offer medical questionnaire and/or physical examination.

This examination is designed to evaluate the candidate's ability to perform the essential functions of the position safely and effectively, with or without reasonable accommodation, and is required of all individuals entering this job classification in accordance with applicable law.

Information obtained through this process will be maintained as confidential medical information in a file separate from the employee's personnel file, consistent with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

If a reasonable accommodation is required to participate in the examination process or to perform the essential functions of the position, Human Resources will engage in the interactive process as required by law.

A conditional offer of employment may be withdrawn only if the results of the examination demonstrate that the individual is unable to perform the essential job functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation, or would pose a direct threat to the health or safety of themselves or others that cannot be reduced or eliminated through reasonable accommodation.