2. Inspects department areas to ensure safety and cleanliness standards are in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices and Lean Manufacturing practices. Responsible for all safety issues affecting employees, including taking action to minimize risk of injury as needed.

3. Analyzes equipment problems to isolate specific causes (i.e. man, method, machine, materials) and participates in troubleshooting of equipment utilizing scientific methodologies such as Cause & Effect, FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis), PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act), 5 Why’s, etc. Consults with support teams, as necessary to determine root cause and implement corrective action.

4. Ensures proper utilization of equipment, manpower, and materials to eliminate downtime, injuries, and/or scrap. Develops more efficient means to identify limiting factors of equipment, staffing, and materials to better utilize available resources and to maximize productivity.

5. Interacts with Scheduling, Planning, Processing, Engineering, Quality, Warehousing, and other support functions to identify and resolve issues impacting product quality and/or production efficiencies. Reacts quickly to multiple situations involving production. Thinks creatively and independently in leading team efforts in resolving recurring issues. Leads change effectively in a high employee involvement and teamwork oriented environment.

6. Maintains control of production man-hours by monitoring area efficiency reports. Reviews daily production reports to maintain and improve scheduled production levels of finished product for distribution. Develops and implements control systems, interprets information, and implements problem-solving actions and continuous improvement processes.

7. Assesses the quality of products by inspecting appearance, color, viscosity, and correctness by using all available information pertaining to the production run. Audits each line at startup to ensure all production requirements are in compliance.