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Position: Packaging Project Manager

Company: Matthews International
Location: PA - Pittsburgh
Status: Full Time Employee Job
Category: Project/Program Management
Relevant Work Experience: 2+ - 5 Years
Career Level: Experienced Non-Manager

Job Description:
The Brand Solutions Division of Matthews International is seeking a Packaging Project Manager to work in our Pittsburgh, PA location.

We are seeking an experienced individual to act as a central point of communication on multiple projects. The PPM will adhere to project timelines, maintain regular status reports and coordinate team planning meetings. The PPM will work with the production team to schedule and facilitate the flow of information in all project phases. The PPM will work with the On-site Graphics Coordinator at the client site to ensure all project requirements are met.

A summary of duties to include:

• Take ownership for designated Client brands and/or categories of work
  
• Gather project information and initiate/facilitate project kick-off meetings to ensure all parties have complete understanding of the project scope and requirements
  
• Communicate and maintain project timelines
• Enter production instructions into order entry system
• Generate production information based on design brief supplied by On-site Graphics Coordinator
• Monitor and communicate project status to On-site Coordinator, Client and Printers
• Quote projects and assist with obtainment of purchase orders
  

Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Graphics Communication or related field preferred
• 2+ Years of Packaging industry experience required
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Strong customer service orientation required
• Familiarity with gravure, offset and flexo print disciplines
  

Many of the world’s leading Consumer Product Companies trust Matthews to control their Brand Management and Graphic Imaging requirements. The Brand Solutions core competencies consist of Brand Management in conjunction with providing packaging prepress solutions. Matthews is a publicly traded company MATW (NASDAQ) headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, with Brand Solutions offices located worldwide.

We offer an excellent working environment and competitive salary and benefits package including 401k.

Send resume and salary history to English@matw.com

Position: Area Sales Manager

Kendall Packaging Corporation is a high quality supplier of innovative flexible packaging solutions for food, non-retail and personal care applications.  Specializing in unique package design and high impact graphics, Kendall Packaging strives for total customer satisfaction with a commitment to 100% on-time delivery.
 
Join a team of dynamic, experienced and customer oriented flexible packaging professionals.  Responsibilities in this converting environment include developing sales plans to satisfy customer needs and company objectives, managing and growing existing customer accounts and penetrating and opening new customer accounts.
 
The qualified candidate will have a college degree and a minimum of 5 years experience in the flexible packaging industry.  One must be results oriented, display technical competence and product knowledge, demonstrate creativity and have strong problem solving skills.  A basic knowledge of standard Microsoft Office programs and CRM application is required.  Some overnight travel will be expected.
 
Kendall Packaging offers an excellent wage and benefits package. If this is the challenge you seek, send a resume including salary requirements and references to: HR@kendallpkg.com

Position: Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer
Location: Rochester, New York

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. The Rochester Sealed Air/Cryovac manufacturing facility is seeking a Manufacturing Process Engineer to support Flexographic printing presses, laminators, slitters and bag machines.
2. Main responsibilities will include supporting the presses first followed by the laminators and slitters with tertiary support for the bag machines.
3. Plant support will include continuous improvement activities aimed at process engineering, process control enhancements and process understanding.
4. Improving key performance metrics (i.e. rate, yield, OEE, etc.) via process verification application will be required.
5. Implementation of lean manufacturing techniques and Six Sigma methodologies will be expected.
6. Day-to-day production support, including methodical troubleshooting, will be required while working in a matrixed environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Engineering degree, Mechanical, Chemical or Electrical preferred
• Six Sigma Black Belt training and/or certification and/or equivalent experience
• Flexographic printing process knowledge including equipment and products
• Solid experience in, and understanding of, manufacturing
• TPM and predictive maintenance tool knowledge and application
• Leadership and results oriented in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Process verification application and knowledge
• Strong organizational abilities including summarizing and presenting data
• Self-starter able to set priorities and focus on the same
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills in an inclusive operation
• Problem solving and root cause analysis including ATS training
• Ability to train and coach others
• Lean manufacturing experience and application including Kaizen
• Value stream mapping understanding and application
• FMEA training and application
• Off-shift support, including weekends, as needed
• Reliability training and knowledge
• Safety “happens” mindset
• Customer centric, quality “built-in” direction
• Process control knowledge and application
• Penchant for creativity coupled with continuous improvement
• Change management skills and application
• Meticulous attention to detail

Sealed Air Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values a diverse workplace

Send resume and salary history to carol.halstead@sealedair.com

Job Opening: Plant Manager

Pamarco Global Graphics has a job opening for a Plant Manager in its Palmyra, NJ Gravure cylinder manufacturing plant.

Pamarco Global Graphics operates one of the largest Gravure cylinder manufacturing plants in the United States, servicing a very diverse set of customers.

The successful candidate should have knowledge of the Gravure printing process and the manufacture of gravure cylinders by the electromechanical engraving method.  

Duties include the day to day Management of the facility, production planning, capital investment recommendation, budgeting and full P and L responsibility, as well as direct communication with major customers. The successful candidate must also be able to travel from time to time mainly within the USA.

Pamarco Global Graphics offers excellent salary, medical benefits, 401(k), and incentive.

Resumes should be sent in confidence to:

John Burgess
President Flexo Division
Pamarco Global Graphics
235 East 11th Avenue
Roselle, NJ 07203

or email: John.Burgess@pamarcoglobal.com

Position: Shift Print Shop Team Leader
 
Date prepared:  May 12, 2010
 
FLSA Class: Exempt

Position Summary
The primary purpose of the Shift Print Shop Team Leader is to ensure quality, safe and cost efficient operations, team management and print shop housekeeping standards.
 
Duties and Responsibilities
These are intended only as illustration of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

1. Plan and meet daily/weekly production goals through efficient production processes:
   ·     Hold team members accountable for adhering to quality and safety standards.
   ·     Perform job approval quality checks on all presses and all jobs each day.
   ·     Review the daily press report looking for trends and unusual items. Implement changes for improvement as warranted.
   ·     Participate in Lean Manufacturing efforts and hold team members accountable for implementing lean processes.
2.  Exhibit sound leadership consistent with Robbie’s culture:
   ·     Train and mentor team members to value and respect one another.
   ·     Listen to all team members and provide assistance with resolving issues as they arise.
   ·     Serve as a role model for respect of company policies and procedures.
   ·     Provide necessary training and mentoring to team members in order to prepare them for future advancement and assignments.
   ·     Address issues directly with others, including other shift team leaders and department team leader. Utilize Crucial Conversations skills.
   ·     Escalate issues to department team leader and/or human resources
3. Uphold a genuine regard for safety by ensuring that team members understand and follow safety guidelines:
   ·     React immediately to perceived safety violations or issues. Issue safety citations and corrective actions as warranted.
   ·     Audit and ensure that equipment safety mechanisms are engaged and in good working order.
   ·     Actively participate in safety meetings and enforce changes in policies as they occur.
   ·     Communicate safety concerns and communications to all team members during shift huddles.
4.  Exhibit high profile leadership on the floor:
   ·     Respond to job approval pages within 5 minutes.
   ·     Spend 70% of time on the floor working with team members.
   ·     Be on the floor 15 minutes before and 15 minutes after shift change every day.
5. Uphold a genuine regard for Hazardous Waste Compliance by ensuring that team members understand and follow Hazardous Waste guidelines.
   ·     Audit and ensure that hazardous waste procedures are followed.
   ·     Ensure that all team members attend annual hazardous waste training.
6. Work in collaboration with other departments to meet their needs and answer questions regarding printing operations:
   ·     Participate in press approvals that occur on assigned shift with customer service and sales.
   ·     Provide scheduling and prepro team with any information needed to efficiently produce printed products.
   ·     Work with quality and continuous process improvement team members to resolve print issues and prevent problems in the future.
7. Communicate and measure data regarding production goals and achievements:
   ·     Track information and update scoreboards related to production goals.
   ·     Complete end-of-shift reports and distribute each day, noting any obstacles or achievements.
   ·     Ensure team members provide updated information to prepro and/or quality team related to production changes.
   ·     Hold team huddles to communicate production achievements and concerns.
8. Handle administrative duties as needed:
   ·     Review and approve time and attendance records.
9. Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Skills, experiences and qualifications that are essential to the job.

• The ability to perform the essential functions of the job, with or without an accommodation.
• Minimum of 5 years wide web flexographic printing experience.
• Minimum of 3 years process printing experience.
• Solid leadership acumen.
• Excellent listening skills with demonstrated ability to make others feel like they have been heard.
• Exceptional internal collaboration skills.
• Ability to hold others accountable.

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Highlights:

• Responsible for all Flexographic printing, training and development. Including communicating, teaching and mentoring of 75-100 adjusters and pressmen, as well as, customers, on printing, inks, aniloxes on various equipment throughout the facility.
• Created and implemented printing enhancement procedures such as, a decreased waste process, an improved quality and decreased downtime process.
• Coordinated multiple vendor/supplier cohorts on developing improved technical processes for water based and flexo inks.
• Responsible for inks inventory,  stock usage, quality

• Customer Service Management
• Complaint Handling & Resolution
• Billing & Estimating
• Customer Satisfaction Enhancement
• Front-End Supervision
• Sales & Margin Improvement
• Teambuilding & Training
• Cost-Reduction Strategies
• Order Fulfillment

Experienced Account Manager with hands-on commitment to comprehensive communication and service coordination, meeting client’s needs with a high level of service, quick turnaround and order accuracy.

Proven results in a fast paced environment, handling inquiries, orders and being the front line contact for many well known Fortune 500 companies around the country. Pride and proof in being organized, detailed and building long term loyalty with clients. Recognized for taking a personal interest in managing the communications, project timelines and product quality requirements for packaging of nationally known brands and their printers and convertors.

Core Strengths:

Brand Consistency • Client Support/Satisfaction • Customer Needs Identification • Problem Resolution
Expressing Ideas• Early and On-time Deliveries • Team-Building• Focusing on Details • Corporate/Client Liaison

• Highly experienced industry professional with over 20 years experience. A hard working and creative problem solver.
• Extensive knowledge of colour, technical and quality management; experience of all print processes, especially packaging print processes of Lithography, Flexography and Gravure. I am a qualified G7 Expert, and a member of the FFTA's prepress leadership council.
• Operations Manager at North American prepress facility in Toronto.
  
  • The role encompasses safety, quality, production and all technical aspects; sales, technical support, colour management.
  • I am responsible for the financial performance of the division, reporting in to management within Sonoco Products Corporation.
• Dual citizenship, British and Canadian.

• Innovative leader with 15+ years of documented success generating revenue by penetrating untapped markets within diverse industries, including food, packaging, and retail.
• Establishes critical contacts to secure accounts, maintaining close communication with clients to facilitate the production of customized products.  
• Offers progressive experience in purchasing. Works closely with cross-functional teams to achieve and surpass corporate goals.
  

Expertise: Product Knowledge ■ Research/Development ■ Product Development ■ Follow-Up
Product Testing ■ Customer Relations ■ Team Collaboration ■ Partnership Building

A seasoned professional and effectual leader with a proven ability to exceed sales quotas:

• Over 30 years of strong outside sales experience for a Fortune 100 company
• Over 15 years of technical selling to a diversified OEM market
• Over 15 years experience in market focused selling to the Flexographic Printing Market
• Powerful but gentle closing abilities
• Passion for gaining personal relationships with end user and distributor clients
• Creative “Out-of-the-Box” Thinker
• Ability to communicate effectively with all organizational levels
  

25 years' experience in the package printing & converting industry on both the supplier and converting side. Technical & sales experience with excellent relationships throughout the industry. Extensive international travel experience and the ability to work in both the US & Canada

Significant Accomplishments:

• Growing and maintaining a $10 Million sales level for the U.S. operation
• Identifying new market opportunities outside of traditional markets
• Participating in trade shows and advertising in trade journals.

Dynamic sales executive with 20+ years of experience and a history of delivering substantial sales growth (multimillion dollar, 100%+). Strategic thinker adept at analyzing market opportunities and developing / implementing plans to generate new business. Record of efficiently directing sales organizations and maintaining alignment with budget, revenue, and customer satisfaction targets. Diligent team leader with proven ability to cultivate C-level relationships with major accounts and to leverage a unique blend of managerial, closing, presentation, international business expertise.

Career Highlights:

• Developed sales strategy throughout the western region and Canada.
• Managed sales team and in plant personnel.
• Generated annual sales budget and profit reports.
• Continuous growth in the wine capsule market (1.6 million in annual sales).
• Presented multimillion dollar proposals to the packaging market.
• Developed close relationships with all levels of management.

• Creative and results-driven graphic designer and art manager Expertise in art direction, graphic design, illustration, pre-press and project/print management
• Organized, dependable, motivated
• Ability to handle projects from concept to completion while managing production/print schedules
• Effective in meeting deadlines and budgets while remaining flexible with changing needs and demands
• Excellent rapport with clients, vendors, managers, supervisors and co-workers

Master’s degree candidate, with emphasis on technical skills required in Printing Technology. Seeking a fulltime position in the Print, Packaging or Color engineering industry.

Specialties:

• Color Management tools
• Print Analysis
• Digital flexographic plate making work flow
• Quality Control & Trouble shooting
• Package Design
• Project Management

A Color Production Manager with 15+ years experience with a well-deserved reputation for cost reduction and project management. Manages deadlines and quality expectations with outstanding results using the latest in technology and processes. Notable skills:

• Color Management
• Shipping and Outsourcing
• Digital Library & Asset Management
• Team Leader
• Quality control / SPC

Currently pursuing a career in the printing industry I have recently graduated from Flexographic Trade School in Ft. Mill, SC. While attending the school I obtained over 384 hours of actual live work press operation in a little over 16 weeks. This is to include make ready, manual plate mounting, color matching, setting impression(gap to gap), waste matrix, die cut, and perfect impression on a Mark Andy 2200, 8 color, UV, and water based press.

Skills include:

• Confidence to operate an 8 color, Mark Andy 2200 and 16 color, Gallus 410 narrow web, UV and water based ink presses.
• Ability to work with tight schedule, under pressure, and with minimal supervision
• Understanding of plate making and mountingColor matching or press checks(PMS standard)
• Anilox care and maintenance
  

Accomplished Manufacturing Operations Manager with proven ability to solve problems and lead manufacturing operations to profitability. Demonstrated ability to quickly assess organizational deficiencies as well as develop and implement simple plans to improve operations. Successful even in the most troubled companies. Demonstrated competency in implementing Lean Manufacturing processes, cost reduction, and developing sustainable systems. Plants managed have realized significant improvements in safety, quality, and on time delivery performance. Productivity per employee increased substantially in all plants managed.

Professional Experience as Plant Manager for Corrugated Box Plant

• Led plant turnaround initiative. Result: unprofitable plant became 2mm profitable
• Implemented Lean scheduling practices. Result: shortened lead time from 3 weeks to 4 days on main product line
• Facilitated Lean Kaizen initiatives. Result: reduced WIP and Finished goods inventories by 50%
• Instituted plant bar code scanning. Result: improved inventory accuracy from 70% to 99%.
• Recruited third shift for plant. Result: Increased plant machine utilization from 55% to 85%