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The Coated Products Supervisor has overall responsibility for managing the daily activities of on-shift crews in the coated operations, including directing shift maintenance demands for operating the business. This is a key position that works closely with other mill shift supervisors to ensure employee safety, quality, maintenance, and productivity goals are met. The Coated Production Supervisor provides management leadership on shift which includes nights, weekends and Holidays. This role is also a key member of the mill's emergency response process.
Responsibilities
- Must follow Ahlstrom's manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures and policies, as applicable, to the position's areas of responsibility, in order to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.
- Administer consistent application of all company policies.
- Ensure on-shift performance meets work standards.
- Communicate expectations to employees and evaluate performance. Address individual or crew underperformance and take appropriate action. Responsible for productivity, quality, efficiency, cost control. compliance, and housekeeping.
- Provide crews with needed equipment and training resources; provide guidance to foster individual growth.
- Assist department trainers in making sure employees' training requirements are completed.
- Participate and/or lead identified daily production meetings and monthly crew meetings.
- Audit crews to ensure they are working safely, following safety requirements and able to identify potential hazards. Appropriately correct safety hazards and unsafe acts in a timely manner.
- Lead investigations.
- Assess processes for effectiveness and implement improvements.
- Provide leadership in emergency situations.
Requirements
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
- Experience as a process engineer, temporary supervisor, or comparable role, in a paper manufacturing facility a plus
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage employee relations with positive outcomes
- Above-average process orientation skills with a focus on process improvement
- Experience in a union environment preferred
- Demonstrated ability to manage and direct a team to achieve desired goats
- A safety leader with knowledge of industry safety standards
- Proficient in Microsoft Office software Aptitude for learning new software systems Ability to work shifts, weekends and holidays
Ahlstrom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal opportunity is a sound and just concept to which we are firmly bound. Ahlstrom will not engage in discrimination against, or harassment of, any person employed or seeking employment with our company based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, non-disqualifying disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.
About Us. Ahlstrom is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable specialty materials. Our purpose is to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. We aim to be the Preferred Sustainable Specialty Materials Company for all our stakeholders. Our Filtration and Life Sciences, Food and Consumer Packaging, and Protective Materials segments, along with the Performance Materials Cluster, address global trends with safe and sustainable solutions. Our net sales in 2025 amounted to EUR 2.9 billion and we employ some 7,000 people.
Read more at www.ahlstrom.com.
