Graphics Supervisor - Spirits

Build your Career with an Industry Leader

Multi-Color Corporation and Fort Dearborn have merged and are now the world’s largest prime label and packaging supplier. Join the new MCC and you will have the opportunity to become part of an organization that has been committed to excellence and industry leadership for over 110 years.

The Graphics Supervisor oversees the Graphic Reproduction Excellence (GRE) day to day operations at the site level, ensuring that materials released from the department meet all quality and technical standards for printing.  The front-line leadership position sets the foundation for success by fully engaging team members in a positive work environment, collaborating with internal and external customers to meet and exceed their expectations, and focusing on continuous improvement in graphic operations.

 Why work at MCC: 

• Generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance and 401(k)
• Paid Holidays: New Years, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, plus two floating Holidays
• Extensive career development and promotion opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the front-line utilization of Managing for Daily Improvement, MDI, and other Lean tools to ensure all Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost KPIs are achieved daily at the site level.
• Provides front-line, daily leadership to professionals whose primary areas of responsibility include item creation, pre-flight, planning, pre-press, imposition, tooling, and platemaking processes.
• Support in a Graphics Supervisory role, the Sales and Operations site leadership and operations team to ensure best in class service for both MCC customers and manufacturing facilities.
• Responsible for the daily delivery of ERP data, production ready files, proofs, tooling, and plates to meet strict internal and external timelines, scheduling, and quality requirements.
• Lead at a supervisor level, the development, implementation, and adherence of standard work to ensure the effectiveness of Graphic Reproduction Excellence processes for internal and external customers at the site level.
• Drive a day-to-day culture of continuous improvement (CI) by ensuring collaboration with employees and management to maximize efficiencies by identifying and removing waste along with improving cycle time.
• Responsible for assisting in proper staffing, completing daily payroll timesheets, training, coaching and development of departmental employees. Recommends to management personnel actions, such as hiring and promotions.
• Oversee the performance of assigned personnel.
• Makes recommendations to management for departmental upgrades by keeping current with industry and technology advancements.
• Ownership and understanding of print tool creation to deliver optimized inputs for production success.
• Other items as assigned.

 Secondary Functions:

• Individual must be able to work independently with minimal guidance required. This implies initiative, follow through, good time management, planning/organization, and decision-making skills.
• Individual must be able to interact effectively with a wide variety of people in a wide variety of settings, possessing strong communication skills, maintaining flexibility, objectivity, and a capacity to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Individual must be able to handle administrative activities, maintain records, reports, or files. This includes the preparation and maintenance of employee records and documentation.

 Qualifications:

• Associate degree or 3-5 years of equivalent experience in Graphics Reproduction, Customer Service, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Expertise with company ERP and Graphics Systems
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing operations, methods, and practices.
• Excellent two-way communication skills (including both oral and written)
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited information may exists.  Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.  Ability to determine root cause of problem and implement an appropriate corrective action.
• A high level of attention to detail and accuracy is required.
• High energy level and ability to marshal resources to accomplish projects and manage initiatives.
• Exceptional customer focus and ability to build effective working relationships at all organizational levels.
• Ability to adapt to changing environment and support of multiple clients.
• High degree of professionalism, discretion, and integrity.

Diversity & Inclusion 

At MCC, we believe what makes us unique, makes us better. We embrace & care deeply about creating a workplace where our people feel valued & empowered. We are committed to providing an environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly & with respect. We consider our people our best asset & understand the importance of bringing different perspectives. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity/expression or ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We encourage & welcome all genders, people of disability, LGBTQI+ community, refugees & people from culturally & linguistic diverse backgrounds to apply.

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