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Milacron is looking for a Group Leader (Warehouse Supervisor) to join our team in Batavia, OH. As a Group Leader you will be responsible for…

What Milacron Offers You:

• Paid Parental Leave
• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance, which includes MD Live, RX help center, Medical Advocate Program, company paid short- & long-term disability.
• A robust PTO policy with 20 days of paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, and 6 paid sick days!
• Generous 401K Matching Program – 3% (base pay) automatic contribution + $.50 for each additional dollar saved on the first 6% of pay saved*
• Opportunities for development and advancement

What you’ll do:

• Resolves problems relating to materials, operations, quality or other factors that may result in production delays.
• Ensure effective employee relations.
• Empowers others to find creative solutions to address complex problems that may impact the organization.
• Ensures that Lean principles are being applied with the right goal in mind: To sustainably maximize the delivery of value to the customer.
• Balance quality, productivity, cost, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas.
• Other duties may be assigned.
• Provides employee coaching and development.
• Recommends employment decisions.
• Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of his/her own function to help arrive at a decision.
• Develops and implements manufacturing methods, quality standards, and perform cost analysis to promote efficient staff and facility utilization.
• Identifies and directs implementation of improvement opportunities by securing relevant information, asking effective questions, and developing solutions.
• Resolve employee issues through problem resolution.
• Manage departmental performance measures, including visual controls and provides regular progress reports to manager.
• Creating platforms to drive optimization and continuously improve 4 core areas of quality, safety, delivery, cost, and employee engagement.
• Manage department priorities and other duties/projects as assigned.
• Ownership of training and technical development of employees including performance reviews, frequent feedback, and setting of goals and objectives.
• Track absenteeism and timekeeping.
• Evaluates the quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis.
• Maintains day to day responsibilities of work scheduling, quality, and interfacing with other supervisors and managers as needed to meet the production schedule.
• Interacts with applicable engineering staff on piece part design, process development and improvement.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervises direct reports and through influence.

Basic Requirements:

• Ability to resolve conflicts and provide feedback
• Computer, Communication, and presentation skills
• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, or related field, or 4-5 years of relative experience in leading others w/ high school diploma or GED equivalent, or combination of both education and experience.
• Constraint management, ISO, systematic problem solving, BBS.
• Demonstrated Leadership, Business and Financial understanding.

Great to Haves:

• Working experience in a manufacturing or warehousing/supply chain/inventory environment is preferred.
• Knowledge and practical experience of lean manufacturing principles, MRP is preferred.
• Lean Manufacturing background within a plant and operational managerial experience from a production / manufacturing setting is preferred.

Travel: N/A

Physical Demands:

To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to crouch. The employee may occasionally lift items as heavy as 25lbs. Specific vision abilities may include the employee’s ability to see near and far distances.

Who we are:

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.

Milacron is an operating company of Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. To learn more, visit: www.Hillenbrand.com.

EEO: At Hillenbrand we strive to build a diverse workforce through equal opportunity employment that embraces and leverages the differences each individual has to offer. Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer of minorities/females/disabled/veterans.

DISCLAIMER: The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of any employee assigned to this job. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.