Summary: 

CJB's Chemical Packaging Manager is responsible for safely and efficiently managing wet and dry packaging operations and personnel to produce products meeting customer expectations.  The Packaging Manager is responsible for all packaging operations on both first and second shifts. He/she must be comfortable making job assignments, following up, and making recommendations to the Operations Manager.  The manager must demonstrate a pro-active approach to safety and quality.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  Other Duties may be assigned.

1. Safety / Environmental
   1. Responsible for managing safety and environmental compliance to policies. Takes necessary measures to resolve any issues and implements corrective actions to reduce risk of recurrence. Timely communicates issues, incidents, corrective actions to appropriate levels of the organization.  
2. Reporting
   1. Ensuring the timely and accurate completion of packaging sheets.
   2. Time card review.
   3. Yield tracking.
   4. Packaging Efficiency Tracking.
3. Other Duties / Responsibilities
   1. Plans, posts, and manages daily work assignments for packaging employees.
   2. Works with Production Scheduler/ Manufacturing Manager to determine manpower requirements in relation to daily production requirements.
   3. Ensuring packaging materials are available for efficient operations.
   4. Works with other managers, supervisors, and maintenance personnel to create and maintain a safe work environment.
   5. Ensuring accurate end of run counts.
   6. Responsible for proper maintenance and operation of packaging equipment.
   7. Ensuring Housekeeping expectations are kept
   8. Ensuring quality packaging requirements are met.
   1. Ensuring packaging equipment cleanouts meet customer and FIFRA requirements.
   10. Responsible for incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective actions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

The Packaging Manager supervises the Packaging Operators and temporary personnel which will include 15-50 people depending on production requirements.

Qualification requirements: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

BS with 5 years progressively higher responsibilities in supervision and/or management preferred. 8 plus years of experience with progressively higher supervision and/or management responsibilities will be considered in lieu of postsecondary education.  Work Keys assessment preferred.

Language Skills:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret Bills of Lading, Purchase Orders, MSDSs, manufacturing sheets, and packaging sheets.  Ability to effectively communicate with coworkers and visitors.

 Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to interpret bar graphs.  Ability to read and interpret scales.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function so fit this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to lift, twist, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or sit.  The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance.  The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25lb.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is frequently exposed to hot, cold, and/or damp weather conditions.  Conditions may be dusty at times.  The noise level in the work environment varies with production activities.

Other Skills and Abilities:

Ability to perform duties with awareness of safety requirements.

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated annually by the designated supervisor or manager.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position.  Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.