Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI) is a leading, technology-driven specialty minerals company that develops, produces, and markets a broad range of mineral and mineral-based products, related systems and services. MTI serves a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, including household and personal care, paper, foundry, steel, construction and environmental solutions around the world. The company reported global sales of $2.2 billion in 2023.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assigning work to employees to ensure the scheduled requirements are met, counsel and discipline employees, promote good communications between all employees and departments across the shifts, achieve all goals set forth, promote and participate in continuous improvement opportunities, complete all required documentation, direct all housekeeping functions, and maintain production inventories.
  • Inventory control
  • Daily production paperwork
  • Arrange overtime shifts when needed
  • Orientation and training of all production employees
  • Monitor all housekeeping
  • Always maintain discipline
  • Oversee and instruct employees’ performance
  • Ensure all employees are fully and properly utilized
  • Ensure Health and Safety procedures and all other company policies are being practiced
  • Conduct his/herself in a professional manner
  • Maintain consistent and open communication with Production Scheduler, maintenance and Shipping Supervisor
  • Inform upper management of any plant concerns
  • Constantly looking for more productive ways to work
• Oversees the practice of all health, safety & environmental procedures, ensuring that safety is a fundamental value in all that is done and that the plant complies with all legal, legislative, corporate and business unit EH&S requirements and expectations. Provides for effective and on-going plant safety programs.
• Responsible for achieving sustainable results and improvement goals in safety, customer service, quality, operational excellence, cost & productivity, inventory management and organizational capability.
• Participates in the establishment of plant goals to achieve annual operating plans and ensure priorities and accountabilities are clear to all levels, resources are available, and obstacles are removed in order to ensure success.
• Drives positive cultural change as a change agent within the plants to engage employees towards a high-performance work systems culture.
• Ensures tracking, daily management and use of key performance indicators to promote improved operational and business results.
• Ensures reliability and efficiency of the plant and equipment: drive execution of maintenance improvement plans and recommends process/equipment modification for upgrades that improve safety, quality, and cost and productivity performance.
• Leverages OE knowledge and tools to drive continuous improvement with the plant team.
• Be a progressive thinker and role model: Enable productivity enhancing tools such as Lean manufacturing, cycle time reduction through standard work and Kaizens, improved maintenance reliability through Total Productive Maintenance, leveraging control system technology, and utilizing systems to support knowledge management and to disseminate best practices for rapid improvement (multiplier effect)
• Provides leadership for root cause determination and problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements
• Leads, supports, and achieves Operational Excellence/lean goals and initiatives, including but not limited to 5S, inventory reduction, process flow mapping, value stream mapping, standard work, Kaizens, Total Productive Maintenance, etc. with the team
• Supports quality teams and management with OE initiatives and actively suggests opportunities for improvements.
• Directs the manufacture of products in the plant. Controls all direct and indirect labor and material costs.
• Maintains adequate controls over the flow of production to ensure that schedules will be attained through effective internal production planning and control systems and procedures. Provides for the maintenance of all equipment, buildings and facilities.
• Ensures Performance Management System is up to date and regular feedback is provided to all employees. Monitor and evaluate team member performance and capabilities and adjust training where needed.
• Motivates, trains, develops, and supervises all production associates.

Qualifications/Requirements:

The requirements listed in the sections that follow are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required to perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions (primary duties) of the job.

Education & Experience

• 5 years supervisory experience; 7 years total experience minimum
• Must have experience in manufacturing
• Shipping and logistic experience is considered an asset
• Lean manufacturing experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Must be willing to work as a team
• Basic Math Skills
• Ability to use Microsoft Office, Excel/Word/Outlook
• Health & Safety Training
• Supervisory Training
• Operational training-Equipment Specific

The employee is expected to be self-directed, take initiative and be persistent when appropriate to accomplish necessary duties without prompting. Additionally, the employee is expected to be adaptable/flexible to changing work assignments, have a high level of integrity, motivate and lead others/provide direction in a timely manner, have dependability and self-control to maintain composure, perform multiple tasks at once, learn and memorize procedures, manage time effectively and efficiently, meet established deadlines, display a cooperative demeanor, read, understand and follow all company, job specific and safety policies/procedures, and attend/use all required training.

Travel: Must have ability to travel if needed.

Work Hours: This salaried/exempt role involves working the number of hours needed to fulfill job expectations.

Safety Equipment: Personal Protective equipment must be worn in plant environments, as required by Company policy and practice/procedure that may be applicable to a given work location/department.

Safety Training Required: A new employee hired to perform the duties of this position is required to be provided New Employee Training by a qualified individual or through the online training system. Additionally, an employee must be provided further training if a job duty/task has changes that will affect the health and safety aspects of that employee’s position.

Additional refresher safety training will be required as management deems appropriate or as dictated by government regulations.

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Company Overview: 

MTI focuses on two major segments – Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions. 

Our Consumer & Specialities segment offers technologically enhanced products to consumer-driven end markets plus specialty additives that become functional components in a variety of consumer and industrial goods. This segment includes our Household & Personal Care and Specialty Additives product lines. The Household & Personal Care product line provides mineral-to-market products that serve consumer-oriented end markets including Pet Care, Personal Care, Fabric Care, Edible Oil, and Renewable Fuel Purification. Our Specialty Additives product line provides mineral-based technologies serving Paper, Packaging, Sealants & Adhesives, Paint & Coatings, Ceramics, Plastics, Food & Pharmaceutical markets.

Our Engineered Solutions segment offers advanced process technologies and solutions that are designed to improve our customers’ manufacturing processes and projects. This segment includes our High-Temperature Technologies and Environmental & Infrastructure product lines. Our High-Temperature Technologies product line offers specially-formulated blends and technologies primarily for Foundry and Steelmaking industries. Our Environmental & Infrastructure product line provides waterproofing, water purification, remediation and other fluid management technologies for critical projects for Remediation, Water Purification, and Infrastructure.

MTI provides a business environment and promotes a culture that encourages all employees to contribute to our success. We have long been committed to the recruitment and advancement of the most talented and qualified people. We recognize that MTI’s ability to provide the highest caliber of products and services is enhanced by a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities and countries in which we work.

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