Buckeye Corrugated

Employee-owned sheet-plant packaging operator

Plant Superintendent

Manufacturing & Production OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeHouston, TX, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Ability to drive results, solve problems, and lead others in situations lacking necessary detail.
Strong verbal and written communication and mentoring skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
Knowledge of plant equipment and operations.
Strong attention to detail.
Proficiency in lean methods.
Five years of experience in a production or manufacturing environment is desired.
Three to five years of experience as a production supervisor or manager is desired.

Responsibilities

Assist the Plant Manager with managing safety, quality, housekeeping, and efficiency across production, scheduling, and shipping departments.
Serve as team leader for the supervision crew and provide guidance and motivation to production supervisors.
Cooperate with customer service, design, and sales teams.
Make production-related decisions in the Plant Manager's place when the Plant Manager is unavailable.
Follow and enforce established safety rules, policies, and procedures.
Promote, support, and enforce division policies and procedures, ensuring best practices are implemented and kept up to date.
Ensure necessary safety documentation is recorded, retained, and updated.
Achieve proficiency in and use company project management and data management systems, including Amtech job costing and RPM modules and UltiPro human resources information system.
Maintain plant cleanliness and orderly work areas.
Work from written and verbal instructions.
Adhere to and enforce company objectives, policies, and programs.
Track waste, returns, and allowances, and manage the overall quality program.
Establish areas of responsibility for immediate subordinates and direct departments to ensure adherence to production schedules, performance standards, quality programs, and safety programs.
Evaluate associates' weaknesses and create individual improvement plans.
Conduct corrective-action training when needed.
Guide the maintenance supervisor on how maintenance can best support the production team.
Identify operational process weaknesses and collaborate with the Plant Manager to implement improvement plans.
Ensure safety policies are followed and seek ways to create a safer work environment through job safety analyses, hazard elimination, and education.
Participate in job process meetings for new and existing orders to prevent manufacturing issues before orders reach the plant floor.
Coordinate with the shipping supervisor and scheduler to ensure on-time customer deliveries.
Direct production, maintenance, and shipping teams on production requirements, equipment utilization, quality and quantity standards, safety and housekeeping, and equipment repair and maintenance.
Ensure best practices support positive workplace culture and associate morale.
Analyze reports and financial statements concerning manpower, attendance, job bidding, labor costs, overtime, equipment efficiency, and production shipments.
Investigate deviations from established standards and determine and implement corrective measures.
Develop and implement improvements to methods, equipment, material handling techniques, and related projects.
Drive inventory management and track industry news and pricing for supplies such as ink, skids, and adhesives.
Oversee and direct supervisors in associate performance and disciplinary management, and make recommendations for discipline, promotion, transfer, or termination.
Staff, train, and mentor production, maintenance, and shipping supervisors, preparing them for new responsibilities and future challenges.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in the corrugated packaging industry is highly preferred.

Salary Range: 80000 to 90000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

The Plant Superintendent will assist the Plant Manager with managing safety, quality, housekeeping and efficiency in the production, scheduling & shipping departments. The Superintendent will serve as a team leader of the supervision crew. They will provide guidance and motivation to the production supervisors. They will actively cooperate with the customer service, design, and sales teams. The superintendent will make production related decisions in the plant managers place when the plant manager is unavailable.

Requirements

Duties & Responsibilities:

Tasks related to this position may vary and are not limited to those listed below:

Follow and enforce established safety rules, policies and procedures at all times

Promote, support and enforce all other established policies and procedures within the division, ensuring best practices are implemented and up to date

Ensure all necessary safety documentation is recorded, retained, and updated as necessary

Achieve proficiency in and utilize company project management software and other data management systems (i.e. Amtech job costing and RPM modules and UltiPro HRIS)

Maintain plant cleanliness and neat and orderly work areas

Work from written and verbal instructions

Adhere to and enforce company objectives, policies and programs

Track waste, returns and allowances and effectively manage overall quality program

Establish areas of responsibility for immediate subordinates and give general direction to various departments to ensure adherence to production schedules, standards of performance, quality and safety programs

Evaluate associates weaknesses and create improvement plans to suit their individual needs.

Carry out corrective action trainings when needed.

Provide guidance to the maintenance supervisor on how maintenance can best support the production team.

Identify weaknesses in operations processes and collaborate with the plant manager to enact an improvement plan.

Ensure that all safety policies are being followed.

Actively look for ways to create a safer work environment through JSA's, hazard elimination, and education.

Participate in job process meetings for new and existing orders with the goal of eliminating manufacturing issues before orders hit the plant floor.

Coordinate with the shipping supervisor and scheduler to ensure on time deliveries to customers.

Direct production, maintenance and shipping team with production requirements, equipment utilization, quality/quantity standards, safety/housekeeping, equipment repair and maintenance

Ensure best practices are followed that support positive workplace culture and associate morale

Analyze reports and financial statements indicating manpower, attendance, job bidding, labor costs, overtime, equipment efficiencies, production shipments, etc.

Investigate, determine and implement corrective measures to improve operations deviating from established standards

Develop and implement improvements for methods, equipment, material handling techniques and similar projects

Drive inventory management and track industry news and pricing of all necessary supplies such as ink, skids and adhesives

Oversee and direct supervisors with associate performance and disciplinary management and make effective recommendations for discipline, promotion, transfer or termination

Staff, train and mentor production, maintenance and shipping supervisors, preparing them for new responsibilities and future challenges

Other duties as assigned

Full-time role in a manufacturing plant/warehouse setting

Skill Set:

Ability to drive results, problem solve and lead others in situations lacking necessary detail

Strong verbal and written communication and mentoring skills

Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook

Knowledgeable of plant equipment and operations

Strong attention to detail

Proficient in lean methods

Qualifications Desired:

5 years of experience in a production/manufacturing environment

3-5 years of experience as a production supervisor or manager

Experience in the corrugated packaging industry highly preferred

About BCI

Buckeye Corrugated, Inc. (BCI) is a privately held, employee-owned company with twelve (12) corrugated manufacturing facilities, providing an extensive range of corrugated packaging products. Located in ten states, our services and capabilities include custom-designed corrugated packaging, point-of-purchase displays, point-of-sale packaging along with fulfillment and logistics. Simply stated, we do not just make boxes. We build the means to shape impressions and influence perceptions.

BCI provides competitive pay and a robust benefits package including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision and life insurance, disability benefits, 401(k), paid time off and holidays, as well as a bonus plan and opportunity for employee stock ownership.

About the Company

Buckeye Corrugated

Employee-owned sheet-plant packaging operator

Buckeye Corrugated is a packaging company that runs a network of corrugated sheet plants to design, manufacture, and supply corrugated packaging products. Its core operation is converting corrugated board into boxes and other packaging items at its sheet plants, serving customers with customized packaging solutions. The company grows by acquiring other packaging firms and integrating them into its decentralized, employee-owned culture, making it the largest independent sheet plant operator in the United States with over 850 employees and annual sales over $450 million. Unlike some peers that rely on venture capital or public markets, Buckeye Corrugated remains fully employee-owned, emphasizing shared ownership and a steady, acquisitions-driven expansion strategy. The goal is to provide reliable, scalable packaging solutions through a long-standing, worker-owned business model that grows by expanding facilities, capabilities, and geographic reach to meet modern packaging demands.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Late Stage VC
Total funding: $32.3M
Headquarters: Fairlawn, OH
Founded: 1958

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