Supv, Mfg Ops

Smurfit Westrock Company

$74K — $124K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3 to 4 years of related experience in manufacturing
  • Preferred supervisory experience in corrugated production
  • Experience in a Lean manufacturing environment
  • Six Sigma Green or Black Belt Certification preferred
  • High school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor's degree preferred in relevant fields

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily operations with a focus on safety, quality, and efficiency
  • Act as primary contact for mechanical issues and production concerns
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives and suggest process enhancements
  • Coordinate inter-departmental activities to achieve collective production goals
  • Monitor workflows to minimize waste and ensure schedule adherence
  • Input production metrics to track KPIs effectively
  • Generate daily production reports to evaluate goal achievement

Benefits

  • Short-term bonus incentive
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending accounts or health savings accounts
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Life and disability insurance programs
  • 15 days of paid vacation
  • 11 paid holidays annually
  • Relocation support available
Full Job Description
General Information

Job ID
ATR66164

Posting Job Title
Production Supervisor Converting

Locations
MA Devens

Employment Type
Full Time

Date Posted
18-Aug-2026

Relocation Support
Yes

Description & Requirements

Production Supervisor - Converting - Devens, MA

The opportunity:

As a Production Supervisor you will oversee maintenance operations using precision and preventative maintenance to maximize plant and production equipment uptime. In this role, you will be a servant leader, impacting the development of craftsmen by providing coaching to ensure adherence to preferred maintenance practices to maximize efficiency and safety

How you will impact Smurfit Westrock:

  • Manage the day-to-day operations of the shift with constant emphasis on safety, quality, delivery and cost.
  • Acts as first point of contact for operators regarding mechanical failure or production issues.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives and enforce control procedures, recommending improvements to the Plant Superintendent, as appropriate.
  • Coordinates production activities with other departments to ensure production goals/objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
  • Monitor production activities to eliminate waste and ensure adherence to production and shipping schedules.
  • Input production data accurately into the system to measure and monitor KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) around efficiencies, downtime, inventory and overall production.
  • Provide recommendations to improve the safety, environmental and health of the entire facility.
  • Produce daily reports on daily shift production and daily shift review to assess if daily goals are met.
  • Control load factors and workflow to ensure maximum use of available capacity and effective use of labor, tools and equipment.


People and Culture

  • Manage and coach employees, providing performance reviews and enforcing disciplinary actions.
  • Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training employees, and developing individual growth opportunities.
  • Directs maintenance employees to troubleshoot mechanical problems and perform preventative maintenance.
  • Enforce adherence to plant safety regulations and encourage employees to become safety conscious
  • Ensure daily that plant personnel follow all company standards and meet all customer commitments.


Critical Skills / Capabilities

  • Coaching: Provides people with tools, knowledge, and opportunities to develop themselves; determines employees' training needs, works with employees to produce continuous development plans, and provides regular feedback and coaching to help employees develop in current and future roles; visibly supports culture and teams
  • Organizational Skills: Plans, arranging and/or monitors work to ensure achievement of desired results; establishes a systematic course of action to accomplish objectives.
  • Adaptability: Demonstrates agility, flexibility, and a willingness to modify one's approach to achieving desired results; responds quickly to changing demands, processes, and updated information
  • Communication: Creates and delivers engaging presentations to internal and external audiences; develops new communication strategies and approaches to communicate data, insights, and critical messages resulting in clear understanding
  • Customer-Oriented: Proactively assesses and effectively resolves customer issues quickly; proactively communicates with customers to ensure alignment and satisfaction; ensures that quality improvements meet the needs and expectations of a diverse customer base; consistently operates with customers' best interests in mind.
  • Strategic Thinking: Develops short and long-term courses of action that support the organization's overall vision and mission; balances business, technical, and operational issues when determining a strategy; identifies problems with current strategies and suggests ways to resolve them; incorporates knowledge of WestRock's goals/strategy as well as competitive, customer, supplier, industry, or marketplace trends into strategic plans; capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks.
  • Process-Oriented: Plans, designs, and manages processes while focusing on refining and improving to increase efficiency and effectiveness; understands process inputs, activities, outputs, roles, and sequencing.


What you need to succeed:

Technical Skills

  • Microsoft Office- Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
  • Workforce
  • Kiwi
  • AS/400 • JDE


Experience

  • Required: 3 to 4 years of related experience
  • Preferred: Manufacturing experience and corrugated supervisory experience; previous experience working in a Lean environment; Six Sigma Green or Black Belt Certification


Education

  • Required: High School diploma or G.E.D. with equivalent experience
  • Preferred: Bachelor's degree (Business Management, Engineering or Operations Management


The salary range for this position is $74,625.00 - $124,375.00, depending on your role, level, and location. The range listed is also the expected pay for roles in Illinois and Colorado. The benefits for this role include short-term bonus incentive, health, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts or health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid sick leave as required by applicable state/local law, 15 days of paid vacation, and 11 days of paid holidays, subject to annual change. Your pay will be based on factors such as your skills, experience, and education. To learn more about this posting, please contact your recruiter during the hiring process. You may apply online at Smurfit Westrock External Careers and the application window is expected to close by 30-Sep-2026.

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