Department Manager

The Die-Cut Department Manager provides leadership, coordination, and technical subject matter expertise to ensure the departments are achieving all key objectives. Designs, directs, and manages all printing and die cut day-to-day production within specific guidelines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage department personnel:

o Accountable for hiring, maintaining, training, and terminating staff within the department in coordination with Human Resources and the Plant Operations Manager.

o Accountable for managing staffing levels, overtime, time-off/ timecard approvals, regular and frequent performance conversations, disciplinary actions, and policy adherence.

o Responsible for ensuring employees within the department are taught and utilize GMP, Food Safety, Quality, HAACP, and Safety practices in accordance with corporate, plant, and auditing rules and guidelines.

o Motivate and engage work teams to accomplish operational objectives, maintaining a solid floor presence.

o Recognize and develop employee skills, abilities, and talents to create a succession plan and promote growth opportunities.

• Achieve forecast and budget targets:

o Measure and analyze key production and operating data.

o Oversee and chair productivity improvement meetings with technical leads and supervisors.

o Minimize waste by ensuring waste reduction and improvement processes are being communicated, followed, measured, and corrected to reach targets.

o Review all production run estimates for printing to ensure all necessary equipment and consumables are present to produce work and equipment run speeds are being met.

• Manufacture a quality product that meets customer requirements:

o Work with Quality Manager on quality improvement initiatives and corrective action to customer complaints.

o Prepare department staff to handle customer and HACCP audits, municipal and customer inspections, and plant tours.

o Conduct and document regular internal audits to measure outcomes, maintain compliance and attest to quality throughput for customers.

• Work with Engineering, Maintenance, and suppliers to ensure the layout, installation, and start-up of new equipment is performed efficiently, cost-effectively, and safely.
• Participate in an active role in Leadership Team Meetings and establish trusting relationships with other managers to coordinate and support all plant operations.
• Ensure, where applicable, the product safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and legality of all products produced and sold.
• Work in accordance with all company policies and procedures regarding employment, safety, quality, product safety and legality, security, and regulatory compliance as applicable.
• Additional duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS: (education, experience, specific skills, machinery/tools, etc.)

• Minimum 10 years of manufacturing leadership.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, making informed decisions quickly.
• Proven track record of accomplishments and results in the areas of safety, productivity, and product quality.
• BRC, SFQ, HAACP, Six Sigma experience preferred but not required.
• Excellent computer skills working with Microsoft products, and SAP.

Working Conditions

• Ability to work in a hot or cold environment.
• Work around solvents, ink, and adhesives used in the manufacturing process.
• Must wear the necessary PPE for all phases of the job.

o Safety steel shoes, hearing protection, safety glasses, hairnet, beard net, etc.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear. Frequently required to walk or climb. Frequently required to stand. Frequently ascend/descend stairs, push, pull, bend and reach. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

What makes Sabert a great place to work:

Pay, benefits and more.

Sabert is eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more. To learn more about our benefits click here.

Learn More About Sabert:

We are a leading global manufacturer of innovative food packaging products and solutions. The company was founded in 1983 grounded in the purpose of reinventing food packaging to nourish and protect our world. Today we design, manufacture, and distribute a wide spectrum of packaging solutions for food distributors, restaurants & caterers, grocery stores, national food chains and consumer entertaining.

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We're committed to providing reasonable accommodation for applicants with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process, to learn more about accommodations please call (732) 721-5544 or email HR2@sabert.com for assistance. Please do not send resumes to the above email address, applications submitted via email will not be considered unless specifically invited to do so.

Sabert Corporation is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, marital status, being a qualified individual with a disability, protected veteran status, political belief or activity, or any other basis prohibited by law or regulation.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work legally in the United States for Sabert. Sabert will not commence an employment-based immigration case to fill this open position