Plant Manager

Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet

We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We're on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.

You could be part of our vision. Because it's our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It's every one of us working together.

We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.

Leads large-scale site or multiple medium-scale sites to optimize productivity and business growth. Adapts to technological and engineering changes in the market place. Leads implementation of operational excellence initiatives and a variety of operating policies, processes and procedures.

Job Summary

Leads and coordinates the activities of the management team in safety, quality, sustainability, production, maintenance, WCO, and administration (Finance and HR) to obtain optimum efficiency. Creating a culture of positive change and empowered employees who work safely, utilize a collaborative connected employee culture to sustain our facility for the future.

Essential Functions

• Optimize quality and output in a safe and cost-effective manner.

• Communicate, support and effectively implement strategic initiatives.

• Promote and maintain culture, policies, benefits, and operational goals.

• Utilize WCO culture and data analysis to evaluate and eradicate inefficiencies in the manufacturing process such as:

• Cost, Downtime, Waste, idle time, maintenance, quality, etc.

• Ensure capital expenditures are planned, budgeted and managed to maximize impact and return on investment.

• Partner with financial team for budgeting, product costing, and forecasting.

• Provide support, guidance, and leadership to the management staff at the facility.

• Lead effective change initiatives within the facility.

• Promote digital transformation and connected worker platforms to enable employee empowerment.

• Lead and promote pillar development.

• Support ERP Conversion

• Maximize WCO savings initiatives

• Promote and facilitate BDP sharing with multiple technology centers of excellence to support an efficient multi-technology facility. Utilizing digital tools to ensure documentation

• Represent the facility along with department managers when communicating with the technology heads and NALT.

• Actively communicates with and participates with teams within commercial and supply chain groups as required to meet customer expectations, managing raw material, WIP and finished goods inventories, and optimize working capital.

• Ensure facility maintains SQF certification, housekeeping and required Food Safety and customer required programs and audits.

Job Qualifications

Required

• Experience in the use of statistical tools/methodologies, computers, quality methods and basic financial principles.

• Effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.

• Lead teams to exceed expectations of the customer.

• Influence, negotiate and resolve conflict and implement change to reach consensus and common goals.

• Experience in recruiting, leading, and developing a team.

• Direct experience in WCO principles and tools including but not limited to lean, six-sigma, kaizan, and statistical analysis.

• Knowledge of ERP systems and S&OP processes.

• Computer literate: MS Office, Power Point (Access, Publisher, advanced Excel), Oracle.

• Self-starter; resourceful, highly organized, and present positive image.

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

• Minimum of 6 - 10 years of industrial experience.

• 5+ years in a position of leadership.

Environment

Physical effort requirements may include lifting up to 50 lbs., extended standing, walk extended distances. Work Environment may include heat, cold, dust and noise. Work schedule may require travel, extended work hours, or shift work.

Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.