Preprint Superintendent

Position Title:
Preprint Superintendent
Pay Rate:
$82,500 - $110,000
Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range. Variable pay may provide additional opportunities for financial awards. This job is eligible to participate in IP’s annual incentive plan.
Category/Shift:
Salaried Full-Time
Physical Location:
Indianapolis Preprint
7536 Miles Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46231
The Job You Will Perform:
• Responsible for process management in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement in the production department, while supervising employees in the daily routine of producing quality preprint products in a safe and efficient manner.
• Champions EHS initiatives and programs; is committed to a safe work environment and ensures that all IP safety and health reliable methods and federal and state OSHA requirements are in place and followed.
• Manages employees in the daily production of preprint products, to include training, planning, assigning, and directing work; evaluating employee performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; promoting teamwork; resolving conflicts.
• Maintain daily plant housekeeping standards by assuring the use of established procedures.
• Maintain high levels of product and service quality in the print, finishing and shipping departments through actively assisting in the development, implementation, use, auditing, and improvement of standard reliable methods and procedures.
• Stay abreast of people needs and issues in the plant and assure effective resolution of identified issues and needs.
• Provide for regular and overtime scheduling.
• Utilize employee involvement and empowerment principles to create teamwork and optimize utilization of resources.
• Participate in the development of capital and project spending plans and activities.
• Responsible for inventory control and monitoring of stock levels, as well as securing vendors as needed.
The Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge You Will Bring:
• Five plus years of supervisory experience in preprint manufacturing preferred.
• Bachelors degree preferred.
• Excellent planning, organizing, prioritizing, time management and delegation skills.
• Strong mechanical and technical knowledge
• Functional/technical skills
• Action oriented
• Dealing with ambiguity
• Career ambition
• Command skills
• Directing others
• Motivating others
• Interpersonal savvy
• Organizing
• Drive for results
• Problem solving
• Process management
• Strategic agility
• Building effective teams