Packaging Manager

The Packaging Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of a manufacturing facility, ensuring optimal productivity, safety, and quality standards are met. This role involves managing supervisors and operators, optimizing processes, and ensuring that all regulations,including environmental and safety, are adhered to. The Packaging Manager will drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance plant performance, minimize downtime, and meet production goals.

• Manage a team of production supervisors and workers.
• Ensures goals of exceeding safety, quality, on-time delivery, productivity, labor, and cost measures are being met.
• Identify losses, benchmark progress and improve equipment productivity by focusing and optimizing OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) program.
• Ensures production schedules are completed on time and in full.
• Monitor and maintain shift production staffing level.
• Analyze downtime, scrap, yields, quality defects and conduct root cause analysis.
• Monitors and reports results against key performance indicators including clear daily and weekly reporting metrics.
• Assist in recruiting and hiring manufacturing team members.
• Develops, reviews, and revises plant SOPs as necessary.
• Monitoring operations and trigger corrective actions.
• Identify and resolve production-related problems promptly.
• Ensure production floor areas are kept clean, organized, and free of potential hazards.
• Write or participate in developing CER's for annual CAPEX spending.
• Conduct communication meetings.
• Coordinate with maintenance to address needed repair work modifications within areas of responsibility.
• Lead employee development initiatives through feedback, training, and coaching to support team growth and performance.
• Update daily / weekly production communication boards.
• Support new product lines and development as needed.
• Create and implement 5s strategy and process.
• Manage Materials and Inventory Transactions

Required Education, Experience and Skills:

• High School Diploma and/or bachelor's or associate degree (beneficial).
• 5+ years of Management/Supervisory Experience in a Manufacturing Environment.
• Cost reduction & OEE projects/programs implementation.
• Continuous improvement plan & projects implementation.
• Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong Verbal and Written Communication Skills.
• Employee Conflict resolution.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to reach above shoulder level, climb, balance, kneel, bend over, etc.
• Ability to use hands and fingers to assemble small objects, boxes, etc.
• Be physically active for 8 hours without becoming fatigued or out of breath.
• Stand for 8 hours a day.
• Frequently lift and or move 40+ pounds.
• Occasionally lift and or move 75+ pounds.

La Colombe is a leading coffee roaster in pursuit of excellent coffee for all since its inception in 1994. Through ethical trade with growers, advocating for equity, and empowering their communities, La Colombe continues to be a pioneer and raises the standards for outstanding quality coffee. The brand is known for providing beloved signature blends, exceptional single-origin coffees, and the world's first-ever textured canned cold latte. La Colombe operates 32 cafes across Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Austin, and Washington, D.C. La Colombe's celebrated coffees are also available in cafes, hotels, restaurants and retailers worldwide. In 2023, La Colombe was acquired by Chobani, a next-generation food and beverage company on a mission to make nutritious food accessible to all.

For more information on La Colombe, visit www.lacolombe.com.

Chobani is an equal opportunity employer. Chobani will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on any basis including, but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, military and/or veteran status, marital status, predisposing genetic characteristics and genetic information, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws.