Operations Packaging Supervisor

About Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America — recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.

Operations Packaging Supervisor

The Operations Packaging Supervisor is a frontline leadership role responsible for safely and efficiently leading finished-product packaging operations at Redwood Materials’ McCarran facilities.

Redwood receives a wide variety of end-of-life batteries and battery-containing products, recovers critical minerals and other valuable materials, and transforms those materials into new battery materials and energy-storage products for customers. The Operations Packaging Supervisor leads the teams responsible for preparing these finished products for customer delivery.

This role ensures finished battery materials and energy-storage products are packaged, labeled, documented, handled, and staged in accordance with product specifications, customer requirements, quality standards, and transportation requirements. The supervisor establishes and reinforces best-in-class operational discipline, safe work practices, product-quality controls, and packaging standards.

The Operations Packaging Supervisor maintains a strong presence in the production environment, models expected behaviors, and partners closely with Production, Quality, Warehouse, Logistics, Maintenance, Engineering, and site leadership to maintain reliable packaging operations and consistent product flow. This position plays a critical role in developing operator capability, strengthening safety culture, protecting finished-product quality, and ensuring customer-ready products are completed accurately and on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily finished-product packaging operations with an uncompromising commitment to safety, environmental compliance, product quality, customer requirements, and operational discipline.
• Supervise, coach, train, and develop a diverse team of packaging operators to deliver safe, reliable, and cost-effective production.
• Maintain a strong and consistent presence on the production floor and model the safety, quality, accountability, and operational behaviors expected from the team.
• Set clear daily performance expectations, assign work, provide timely feedback, and hold team members accountable for results and behaviors.
• Coordinate packaging schedules, staffing, and production priorities based on finished-product availability, customer orders, packaging-material availability, equipment readiness, and shipment requirements.
• Oversee packaging activities that may include filling, weighing, sealing, wrapping, labeling, container preparation, palletizing, sampling, material staging, and finished-product handling.
• Ensure finished battery materials and energy-storage products are packaged according to approved product specifications, customer requirements, and established work instructions.
• Verify the accuracy of product identification, labels, weights, quantities, lot information, containers, seals, documentation, and other traceability requirements.
• Ensure packaged products meet established standards for container integrity, cleanliness, protection, presentation, and shipment readiness.
• Maintain product identity and lot traceability throughout the packaging and staging process.
• Prevent product contamination, material mixing, incorrect labeling, packaging damage, and other conditions that could affect finished-product quality or customer acceptance.
• Monitor production performance and key performance indicators related to safety, quality, packaging accuracy, throughput, labor efficiency, equipment uptime, waste, rework, schedule attainment, and cost.
• Ensure operators consistently follow standardized work instructions, packaging specifications, quality controls, material-handling procedures, and escalation requirements.
• Confirm that packaging materials, containers, labels, pallets, liners, seals, and other supplies are available and appropriate for scheduled production.
• Coordinate with Production teams to manage the transfer of completed materials and products into the packaging process.
• Partner with Warehouse and Logistics teams to ensure finished products are properly identified, staged, stored, and released for customer shipment.
• Partner with Quality to address packaging defects, labeling errors, weight discrepancies, damaged containers, traceability issues, contamination concerns, and other nonconforming conditions.
• Ensure nonconforming or potentially affected products are promptly identified, contained, documented, and escalated.
• Partner with Maintenance and Engineering teams to improve packaging-equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and support preventive and corrective maintenance activities.
• Identify and resolve production bottlenecks, equipment interruptions, labor constraints, packaging-material shortages, and workflow issues affecting customer-ready output.
• Support equipment startups, shutdowns, changeovers, production trials, and the introduction of new packaging equipment, materials, products, or processes.
• Participate in safety and quality incident investigations, root-cause analysis, and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Review production records, downtime information, quality results, customer requirements, and operator feedback to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Lead shift meetings, communicate safety topics and production priorities, and ensure effective operational handoffs between shifts.
• Maintain accurate production, quality, traceability, training, inventory, downtime, and shift documentation.
• Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of standard operating procedures, packaging specifications, and operator training materials.
• Reinforce housekeeping, workplace organization, tool control, inventory accuracy, and material-control standards throughout the packaging area.
• Support employee hiring, onboarding, qualification, cross-training, attendance management, performance management, and professional development.
• Drive a culture of safety, ownership, teamwork, accountability, problem-solving, customer focus, and continuous improvement.

Desired Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in packaging, manufacturing, production operations, industrial processing, battery materials, chemical materials, warehousing, material handling, or a similar operational environment.
• Previous experience in a supervisor, team lead, trainer, or other frontline leadership role strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success coaching employees, improving performance, building engagement, and developing operator capability.
• Experience leading packaging, finished-goods, production, warehouse, or material-handling operations in an industrial environment.
• Experience packaging manufactured materials or products to defined quality specifications and customer requirements.
• Working knowledge of packaging processes such as filling, weighing, sealing, labeling, wrapping, palletizing, container preparation, lot identification, and finished-product staging.
• Experience working with industrial packaging and material-handling equipment such as conveyors, filling systems, scales, sealers, labelers, wrappers, pallet-handling equipment, and forklifts.
• Experience managing product identification, lot traceability, labeling accuracy, packaging documentation, or finished-product quality controls.
• Strong hazard-recognition skills with the ability to teach and reinforce safe work practices.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing operations, process discipline, standardized work, quality controls, and operational procedures.
• Experience monitoring production KPIs and using data to improve safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, equipment uptime, waste, schedule attainment, or cost.
• Ability to identify operational abnormalities, perform initial troubleshooting, and coordinate effectively with Maintenance, Engineering, and Quality teams.
• Experience participating in incident investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action processes.
• Familiarity with computerized manufacturing, inventory, warehouse, quality, or production-control systems preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey expectations, production priorities, customer requirements, and operational issues clearly and effectively.
• Self-motivated, accountable, and capable of driving issues to resolution using available resources.
• Ability to work effectively across Production, Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, Warehouse, Logistics, and site leadership teams.
• Passion for sustainability, environmental responsibility, operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement.

Additional Requirements

• Work schedule may vary depending on site operational needs, and flexibility is required.
• Must be willing and able to work the assigned shift, including nights, weekends, holidays, overtime, or rotating schedules when required.
• Ability to work in challenging working conditions which may include exposure to noise, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes, while protected by PPE, for extended periods of time.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods and regularly work on the production floor.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. as needed.
• The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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