DEPARTMENT: Production
REPORTS TO: Department Supervisor/Manager
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The Work Cell Coach will oversee the day-to-day operation of their assigned Work Cell. The Work Cell Coach has overall responsibility for the operations of their Work Cell and may require escalation of issues to other supporting departments (i.e. Maintenance and Automation, Tool Room) or their Supervisor. This position will report directly to the Supervisor of their shift.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors and participate and make suggestions for improvement.
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Identify safety gaps and self-initiate corrective actions.
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Strictly adhere to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts.
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Understands, identifies and corrects safety hazards.
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Create a work environment where risks are managed with an appropriate sense of urgency
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Support and ensure compliance and execution of company vision
- Perform cell walk at shift exchange with previous WCC
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Ensure labor density plan is followed
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Review machine downtime to ensure optimized labor assignments
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Ensure machine/cell readiness for production
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Approve start-up of prod
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Inspect one shot/operator/day (with them) and then one shot/operator/day independently to ensure compliance and effectiveness and to ensure quality product is being produced within the cell
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Perform Gemba walks every 2 hours-doc results on MDI
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Ensure Operator AMs are being completed
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Hold TPM meeting weekly and maintain Found vs. Fixed
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Ensure proper shutdown of machines: End of run, no-op, and Holiday shutdown
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Performance of assigned LPAs
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Investigate Production Anomalies (pulls, DT, Red Screen, HrxHr, Labor variance, proactively reduce scrap)
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Communicate/escalate operational issues with shift supervisor
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Lead, support, and develop operator skill level in work cell for better performance
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Ensure compliance plant initiatives ISO, TPM and GMP
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Manage scrap waste stream and drive reduction within the cell
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Assist with machine breakdowns and escalate to support groups
REQUIRED SKILLS/ATTITUDES:
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Ability to challenge the status quo to facilitate continuous improvement
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Ability to collaborate across roles and diverse groups, gather and share feedback
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Ability to stay current in best practices and be a continuous learner
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Ability to plan and manage routine maintenance
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Strong communication, presentation, planning and organizational skills; ability to multi-task and prioritize.
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Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
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Strategic thinking skills
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Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, reports and memos.
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Ability to write correspondence and reports.
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Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one situations, to other supervisors and in small group settings to employees of his/her department.
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Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
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Ability to compute rate, ratio and percentage.
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Ability to apply astute understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
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Ability to deal with problems involving employees.
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Ability to determine problems if rate is not made on a specific machine.
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Associates degree or relevant experience
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Previous experience supervising employees within a manufacturing, military or industrial environment.
PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS:
While performing the duties, the employee will be required to sit and/or stand, talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands, fingers and arms to feel objects or controls, reach with hands and arms. Prolonged standing/walking periods of 12 hours. May be required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift to 50 pounds.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Safety Responsibilities:
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Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
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Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
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Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
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Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
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Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own
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Food Safety Responsibilities:
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Monitors and verifies activities to ensure that finished goods and raw materials are coming in and out of the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
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Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
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Reports any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured products to the location’s Food Safety Team Leader and submits an appropriate incident report
About MRP:
MRP Solutions (MRP), a plastic cap manufacturer, is a leading provider of high-quality, injection molded plastic closures, jars and packaging components used every day by millions of consumers around the globe. But we offer more than just plastic caps and lids – we deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.
MRP Solutions combines extensive packaging expertise with a consultative approach to reliably uncover customer needs. By understanding your business goals, we can tailor smarter, safer, and more flexible packaging solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to market, helping your businesses capitalize on opportunity. By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.
We are passionate about partnering with distributors and manufacturers who understand that plastic caps and lids are a small but important part of how people experience their brands. Together, we deliver packaging with purpose.
Our Vision:
We deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.
By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.
Our Values & Beliefs
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Integrity – We have the courage to act with the highest level of integrity, even when no one is watching. We do what is right 100% of the time.
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Value Creation – The sole reason a company exists is to create real long-term value for society. This starts with ensuring human safety, as value cannot be created without first protecting human life. We seek opportunities for mutual benefit with all of our stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate. In everything we do, our overarching goal is to deliver superior results..
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Accountability - We are accountable to each other and to our stakeholders. We say what we do and do what we say. We embrace a culture of ownership, empowering and equipping employees with the ability to own their outcomes.
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Entrepreneurial - Everyone thinks and acts like owners, employing good economic and critical thinking skills while adopting the risk profile of our shareholders. We are inquisitive, constantly seeking out opportunities to improve, actively searching for and innovating across each and every aspect of our business. We relentlessly strive to understand and profitably anticipate what our customers need and value, because if our customers do not grow, we do not grow.
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Respectful and Friendly – Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Because everyone's perspective has value, we embrace diversity of thought, background and experiences. We are friendly and lead with a smile. What we do is important, but how we do it is what makes it impactful.
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Change - We actively seek out and embrace change wherever profitable. Because society is constantly identifying and employing new and better ways of accomplishing tasks, we must constantly innovate, reinvent and, ultimately, destroy the old ways of doing business. We actively engage in rigorous debate and embrace challenge to ensure we stay relevant and deliver superior results.
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Fulfillment – Our employees are the foundation of our success. We foster an environment enabling our employees to learn, grow and accept more accountability as they demonstrate capability. We promote more than just individual connection as community at work brings people together through common interest, objectives or experiences.
MRP Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital or protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, MRP Solutions will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.
