{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"30c0409a4d3baf41454e6e4e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/30c0409a4d3baf41454e6e4e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/30c0409a4d3baf41454e6e4e","title":"Shift Leader","description":"Job Purpose\n\nLeads shift while operating production machinery safely and efficiently; maintain appropriate documentation and communicate ideas and problems to appropriate staff; perform scheduled preventative maintenance and mold changeovers; responsible for producing best quality product.\n\nKey Responsibilities and Duties\n\nResponsible for providing a safe environment to all production employees, visitors and temporary labor.\n\nEnsure all employees and visitors receive and wear protective or safety equipment such as earplugs, hairnets, safety glasses or gloves.\nContinually monitor production floor and equipment for unsafe or hazardous conditions; report immediately and make appropriate corrections to repair, replace or quarantine unsafe condition.\nEnsure proper medical attention is provided immediately with any accident and perform accident investigation.\n\nResponsible for producing and/or packing the best quality product at all times which meet or exceed company expectations and customer quality expectations.\n\nCoordinate and conduct quality training as required.\nLabel and/or tag all production, and maintain raw and packaging material traceability by recording lot codes as required.\nEnsure all production employees are properly trained to identify nonconforming product and materials.\nEnsure all non-conforming products and materials are placed on hold, isolated, and properly tracked.\nPerform quality and downstream testing and measurements, and record results in the specified system or form as directed.\nCommunicate out of specification conditions, food safety and food defense issues to the appropriate personnel.\nChart Statistical Process Control (SPC) data and evaluate for out of specification and out of control conditions.\n\nResponsible for achieving maximum production efficiency on all scheduled machines.\n\nMonitor machine processes and ensure any changes are justified and properly recorded.\nMonitor production efficiencies and make necessary adjustments to meet and exceed ‘World Class’ Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) standards.\nPerform shift inventories to ensure accurate production numbers.\nRecord daily production, lot information, downtime summaries, etc, in Access Production Database.\nProactive in addressing inefficiencies; communicate all equipment inefficiencies with maintenance personnel. Promote and participate in Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) events and projects. Answer telephones and greet visitors in a professional and courteous manner consistent with Ring Container Technologies standards. Ensure the safe and efficient operation of all equipment to meet or exceed company established Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) expectations and customer quality expectations.\nFollow Lock out / Tag out policy.\nProactive in addressing unsafe conditions on production equipment.\nProcess production equipment and maintain documentation to support process changes.\nProactive in addressing inefficiencies of production equipment.\nPerform maintenance tasks as outlined by Maintenance Manager.\nUse power tool equipment in the shop in a safe manner to avoid injury or harm to self or other employees.\n\nPerform scheduled Preventative Maintenance tasks as outlined by Maintenance Manager.\n\nProactive in addressing machine inefficiencies during preventative maintenance.\nEnsure equipment is clean and in ‘showroom condition’ after preventative maintenance is performed on production equipment.\nContinually evaluate equipment for improvement areas. Tag components or parts that need repair, replacement or improvement as outlined in the Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) guidelines.\n\nPerform scheduled production equipment mold changeovers as outlined by Maintenance Manager.\n\nPerform changeovers with limited downtime as described in Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) procedures.\nEnsure production equipment is in safe and efficient operation after each changeover.\n\nPerform maintenance tasks as outlined by Maintenance Manager.\n\nTroubleshoot hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, mechanical and process problems with equipment as needed or directed by management or Production Supervisor.\n\nMaintain sufficient records to support the Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) system – MicroMain.\n\nRecord parts removed from inventory on appropriate documentation to maintain sufficient parts inventory.\nNotify Maintenance Manager when parts inventory becomes low or reaches a reorder point.\nComplete the appropriate paperwork required by all work orders.\nGenerate the necessary quick tickets when emergency repairs are required.\n\nCoordinate with Production Manager as it relates to production equipment training and employee development.\n\nProvide suggestions for training topics.\n\nCommunicate problems, progress reports and continuous improvement ideas to management staff, maintenance and production personnel. Ensure production employees perform housekeeping and sanitization duties to maintain facility cleanliness, safety, and product food safety compliance.\n\nMaintain a clean, organized work area through effective housekeeping, sanitization, and waste management practices by following the master cleaning and sanitization schedule to ensure the food safety of materials, products and processes are not impacted.\nProactively resolve housekeeping and sanitization opportunities.\n\nSupport the development and implementation of food safety and food defense programs, in compliance with Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) or British Retail Consortium (BRC) standards.\n\nCoordinate and conduct food safety training as required.\nFollow all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), personnel practices, HACCP, and prerequisite food safety programs.\nEnsure work is performed in a manner which prevents foreign material contamination.\nCommunicate food safety and food defense issues to appropriate personnel.\n\nResponsible for maintaining appropriate documentation during the shift.\n\nDocument machine or process changes.\nPerform necessary operator checklists.\nMaintain accurate production reporting documentation.\nDocument equipment maintenance and repair on appropriate MicroMain paperwork or handheld device.\nDocument part usage or inventory level on appropriate MicroMain paperwork or handheld device.\n\nCommittee Member of the following:\n\nProblem Solving Team – as necessary\n\nResponsible for active participation on plant teams and activities including safety, quality, sustainability, community involvement, OEE, maintenance, employee wellness, brainstorming and continuous improvement which are required to create and maintain a World Class environment.\n\nResponsible for their personal development by requesting regular meetings with their managers, requesting additional training, requesting involvement beyond their immediate job responsibilities, seeking higher education opportunities including continuing education classes and establishing self development and performance goals with their managers.\n\nExperience, Educational and Technical Qualifications\n\nOur Shift Leader should possess a sense of urgency, accountability, business ethics, professionalism, self-motivation and the desire and focus to improve the business.\nOur Shift Leader must possess a High School diploma or GED equivalent and successfully complete the entrance examinations and interviews.\nOur Shift Leader must possess at least 3-4 years relevant experience, with preferably at least 2 years leading a team.\n\nAbilities Required\n\nMust be able to come to work promptly and regularly.\nMust be able to take direction and work well with others.\nMust be able to work under the stress of deadlines.\nMust be able to concentrate and perform accurately.\nMust be able to react to change productively and to handle other tasks as assigned.\n\nPhysical Activity Required:\n\nClimbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs and equipment, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Needs good body agility.\nStooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist. This requires the full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.\nCrouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.\nReaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.\nStanding: Standing for sustained periods of time.\nWalking: Moving over long distances to accomplish tasks.\nPushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.\nPulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.\nLifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.\nGrasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.\nFeeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin.\nFingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm.\nTalking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. This includes activities where detailed or important spoken instruction must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.\nHearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds with no less than 40 dB at 500 Hz, 100 Hz, and 2000 Hz with or without correction. Able to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machine parts.\nRepetitive Motion: Substantial movements of the arms, hand and/or fingers.\nVision: Must be able to prepare and analyze data and figures. Eye sight capable of seeing small defects at distances close to the eyes.\nExertion: Medium Work – Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.\n\nEnvironmental Working Conditions:\n\nThe worker is subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions.\nThe worker may be subject to extreme heat. Temperatures above 100 for periods of more than one hour.\nThe worker is subject to noise.\nThe worker is subject to vibrations. Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body.\nThe worker is subject to being exposed to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, etc.\nThe worker may be subject to atmospheric conditions, i.e. fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases or poor ventilation.\nThe worker is subject to oils. Air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.\n\nDisclaimer\n\nThe above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.\n#LI-BH1\nRing Container Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of Ring to apply recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation and professional development practices without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or certain classifications based on genetic information.\n\nPay Range Minimum:\n\n26.3","company":"Ring Container Technologies","rawCompany":"ring container technologies","city":"Sidney","state":"OH","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T07:28:45.098Z","occupations":[{"code":"51-1011.00","title":"First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers","slug":"first-line-supervisors-of-production-and-operating-workers"},{"code":"11-3051.00","title":"Industrial Production Managers","slug":"industrial-production-managers"},{"code":"51-9199.00","title":"Production Workers, All Other","slug":"production-workers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"322211","title":"Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing","slug":"corrugated-and-solid-fiber-box-manufacturing"},{"code":"332439","title":"Other Metal Container Manufacturing","slug":"other-metal-container-manufacturing"},{"code":"323111","title":"Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books)","slug":"commercial-printing-except-screen-and-books"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Shift Leader","description":"Job Purpose\n\nLeads shift while operating production machinery safely and efficiently; maintain appropriate documentation and communicate ideas and problems to appropriate staff; perform scheduled preventative maintenance and mold changeovers; responsible for producing best quality product.\n\nKey Responsibilities and Duties\n\nResponsible for providing a safe environment to all production employees, visitors and temporary labor.\n\nEnsure all employees and visitors receive and wear protective or safety equipment such as earplugs, hairnets, safety glasses or gloves.\nContinually monitor production floor and equipment for unsafe or hazardous conditions; report immediately and make appropriate corrections to repair, replace or quarantine unsafe condition.\nEnsure proper medical attention is provided immediately with any accident and perform accident investigation.\n\nResponsible for producing and/or packing the best quality product at all times which meet or exceed company expectations and customer quality expectations.\n\nCoordinate and conduct quality training as required.\nLabel and/or tag all production, and maintain raw and packaging material traceability by recording lot codes as required.\nEnsure all production employees are properly trained to identify nonconforming product and materials.\nEnsure all non-conforming products and materials are placed on hold, isolated, and properly tracked.\nPerform quality and downstream testing and measurements, and record results in the specified system or form as directed.\nCommunicate out of specification conditions, food safety and food defense issues to the appropriate personnel.\nChart Statistical Process Control (SPC) data and evaluate for out of specification and out of control conditions.\n\nResponsible for achieving maximum production efficiency on all scheduled machines.\n\nMonitor machine processes and ensure any changes are justified and properly recorded.\nMonitor production efficiencies and make necessary adjustments to meet and exceed ‘World Class’ Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) standards.\nPerform shift inventories to ensure accurate production numbers.\nRecord daily production, lot information, downtime summaries, etc, in Access Production Database.\nProactive in addressing inefficiencies; communicate all equipment inefficiencies with maintenance personnel. Promote and participate in Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) events and projects. Answer telephones and greet visitors in a professional and courteous manner consistent with Ring Container Technologies standards. Ensure the safe and efficient operation of all equipment to meet or exceed company established Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) expectations and customer quality expectations.\nFollow Lock out / Tag out policy.\nProactive in addressing unsafe conditions on production equipment.\nProcess production equipment and maintain documentation to support process changes.\nProactive in addressing inefficiencies of production equipment.\nPerform maintenance tasks as outlined by Maintenance Manager.\nUse power tool equipment in the shop in a safe manner to avoid injury or harm to self or other employees.\n\nPerform scheduled Preventative Maintenance tasks as outlined by Maintenance Manager.\n\nProactive in addressing machine inefficiencies during preventative maintenance.\nEnsure equipment is clean and in ‘showroom condition’ after preventative maintenance is performed on production equipment.\nContinually evaluate equipment for improvement areas. Tag components or parts that need repair, replacement or improvement as outlined in the Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) guidelines.\n\nPerform scheduled production equipment mold changeovers as outlined by Maintenance Manager.\n\nPerform changeovers with limited downtime as described in Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) procedures.\nEnsure production equipment is in safe and efficient operation after each changeover.\n\nPerform maintenance tasks as outlined by Maintenance Manager.\n\nTroubleshoot hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, mechanical and process problems with equipment as needed or directed by management or Production Supervisor.\n\nMaintain sufficient records to support the Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) system – MicroMain.\n\nRecord parts removed from inventory on appropriate documentation to maintain sufficient parts inventory.\nNotify Maintenance Manager when parts inventory becomes low or reaches a reorder point.\nComplete the appropriate paperwork required by all work orders.\nGenerate the necessary quick tickets when emergency repairs are required.\n\nCoordinate with Production Manager as it relates to production equipment training and employee development.\n\nProvide suggestions for training topics.\n\nCommunicate problems, progress reports and continuous improvement ideas to management staff, maintenance and production personnel. Ensure production employees perform housekeeping and sanitization duties to maintain facility cleanliness, safety, and product food safety compliance.\n\nMaintain a clean, organized work area through effective housekeeping, sanitization, and waste management practices by following the master cleaning and sanitization schedule to ensure the food safety of materials, products and processes are not impacted.\nProactively resolve housekeeping and sanitization opportunities.\n\nSupport the development and implementation of food safety and food defense programs, in compliance with Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) or British Retail Consortium (BRC) standards.\n\nCoordinate and conduct food safety training as required.\nFollow all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), personnel practices, HACCP, and prerequisite food safety programs.\nEnsure work is performed in a manner which prevents foreign material contamination.\nCommunicate food safety and food defense issues to appropriate personnel.\n\nResponsible for maintaining appropriate documentation during the shift.\n\nDocument machine or process changes.\nPerform necessary operator checklists.\nMaintain accurate production reporting documentation.\nDocument equipment maintenance and repair on appropriate MicroMain paperwork or handheld device.\nDocument part usage or inventory level on appropriate MicroMain paperwork or handheld device.\n\nCommittee Member of the following:\n\nProblem Solving Team – as necessary\n\nResponsible for active participation on plant teams and activities including safety, quality, sustainability, community involvement, OEE, maintenance, employee wellness, brainstorming and continuous improvement which are required to create and maintain a World Class environment.\n\nResponsible for their personal development by requesting regular meetings with their managers, requesting additional training, requesting involvement beyond their immediate job responsibilities, seeking higher education opportunities including continuing education classes and establishing self development and performance goals with their managers.\n\nExperience, Educational and Technical Qualifications\n\nOur Shift Leader should possess a sense of urgency, accountability, business ethics, professionalism, self-motivation and the desire and focus to improve the business.\nOur Shift Leader must possess a High School diploma or GED equivalent and successfully complete the entrance examinations and interviews.\nOur Shift Leader must possess at least 3-4 years relevant experience, with preferably at least 2 years leading a team.\n\nAbilities Required\n\nMust be able to come to work promptly and regularly.\nMust be able to take direction and work well with others.\nMust be able to work under the stress of deadlines.\nMust be able to concentrate and perform accurately.\nMust be able to react to change productively and to handle other tasks as assigned.\n\nPhysical Activity Required:\n\nClimbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs and equipment, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Needs good body agility.\nStooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist. This requires the full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.\nCrouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.\nReaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.\nStanding: Standing for sustained periods of time.\nWalking: Moving over long distances to accomplish tasks.\nPushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.\nPulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.\nLifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.\nGrasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.\nFeeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin.\nFingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm.\nTalking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. This includes activities where detailed or important spoken instruction must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.\nHearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds with no less than 40 dB at 500 Hz, 100 Hz, and 2000 Hz with or without correction. Able to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machine parts.\nRepetitive Motion: Substantial movements of the arms, hand and/or fingers.\nVision: Must be able to prepare and analyze data and figures. Eye sight capable of seeing small defects at distances close to the eyes.\nExertion: Medium Work – Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.\n\nEnvironmental Working Conditions:\n\nThe worker is subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions.\nThe worker may be subject to extreme heat. Temperatures above 100 for periods of more than one hour.\nThe worker is subject to noise.\nThe worker is subject to vibrations. Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body.\nThe worker is subject to being exposed to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, etc.\nThe worker may be subject to atmospheric conditions, i.e. fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases or poor ventilation.\nThe worker is subject to oils. Air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.\n\nDisclaimer\n\nThe above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.\n#LI-BH1\nRing Container Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of Ring to apply recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation and professional development practices without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or certain classifications based on genetic information.\n\nPay Range Minimum:\n\n26.3","datePosted":"2026-09-12T07:28:45.098Z","dateModified":"2026-09-12T07:28:45.098Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Ring Container Technologies","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Sidney","addressRegion":"OH","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"30c0409a4d3baf41454e6e4e"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/30c0409a4d3baf41454e6e4e"}}