Performance Leader- Converting

Founded over 35 years ago First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan Pennsylvania into a group of companies employing over 5000 team memberswhile maintaining ourfamilyvalues and entrepreneurialspirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada the companies within the First Qualitygroup produce high-quality personal care and household products forlargeretailers and healthcareorganizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers wipes feminine pads paper towels bath tissue adult incontinence products laundry detergents fabric finishers and dishwash addition we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility unity and integrity we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality youll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning professional development and our mission to Make Things Better.

We are seeking an experienced Performance Leader-Converting for our First Quality Tissue SE facility located in Anderson SC. This position will be responsible for providing process leadership for the production group to include operator skills development training downtime reduction waste reduction and process center lining with the goal of improving departmental efficiencies and lowering operating costs while ensuring compliance with government mandates and FQT systems. Provide day-to-day process troubleshooting training and setup for production to meet or exceed Safety Quality Speed Efficiency Waste and Cost objectives. Identifying supporting and implementing productivity improvement.

Primary responsibilities include :

• Promote an action-oriented safety culture embracing safety as a core value instilling and exemplifying a safety mindset for all team members resulting in an incident free workplace.
• Work in conjunction with Quality department to ensure finished product satisfies all finished product quality standards.
• Displays comprehensive knowledge and full understanding of the paper making process.
• Complies with and is a role model for all First Quality safety and handbook protocol.
• Lead troubleshooting initiatives and implement root cause corrective actions to address process upsets.
• Develops operator troubleshooting guides; writes OJT procedures.
• As a SME provide both hands-on expertise to identify and resolve issues and provide OJT to the operators / leads as needed.
• Provides mentoring and training resources to continually develop / improve operator skills.
• Ensure teams are auditing critical process parameters on a daily / shift basis.
• Analyze data to effectively troubleshoot and resolve production problems.
• Assist PE in resolving any product specification related issues.
• Demonstrates superior leadership capabilities in front of all team members.
• Reinforces FQT management company direction and promotes positive change with the hourly workforce.
• Collaborates with Maintenance department for daily weekly and monthly outage maintenance work planning.
• Maintain a constructive working relationship with Quality and Converting departments in order to efficiently resolve cross department issues.
• Support weekend work and alternate shifts as required fulfilling business needs.

The ideal candidate should possess the following :

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive :

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who as a result of their role specifications may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability sexual orientation gender identification or protected Veteran status.

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1