Plates Manager

Inspired to grow with your experience, learn and share with new colleagues?
 

Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Essential Functions

• Monitor department safety efforts.  Provide direction for safety improvements and ergonomic concerns.
• Conduct routine safety audits, hazard hunts and if necessary, accident investigations.
• Lead pillar team and Kaizen projects.  Drive the AM and PCS process to improve the department.
• Responsible for meeting department production KPI’s and monitor improvement projects.
• Manage internal customer/supplier relationships with printing, planning, inventory control and material supply, engineering, and maintenance.  
• May be required to manage projects related to department improvements.
• Help to establish staffing levels for the department.
• Monitor internal quality data and provide directions for corrective action.
• As necessary provide corrective action responses for customer complaints.
• Responsible for the training and development of department personnel.
• Implement continuous Improvement through relentless focus on corrective and more importantly, preventive actions and building this philosophy throughout the organization above.
• Other responsibilities and tasks as appropriate to achieve Company initiatives, at the direction of the Operations Manager.

Job Qualifications

Required

• Strong teambuilding skills.
• Have strong computer skills.  Excel, Power BI, ERP system.
• Discrete manufacturing experience.
• Proven track record of success managing a multi-process or departmental production group.
• Able to enter product data and information via the computer systems.
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to talk in front of large groups of employees, managers, and supervisors.
• Ability to multitask and oversee multiple projects, production schedules and company meetings as they relate to the Plate Dept.

Preferred

• paper or paper board food packaging preferred.
• 5-7 years of Supervisory/Managerial experience in a manufacturing setting.
• 4-year degree preferably in business management or engineering (ME, EE, ChE).

Environment

• Ability to walk, stand and climb stairs many times and for long durations during a normal workday.  Work on the production floor with wide swings in ambient temperatures.
• Have good eye/hand coordination and not have color blindness.
• Ability to safely work within all manufacturing departments.
• Work in an office environment part of your workday while walking the production floor daily.

Join us to shape the future together!