Sr Manager, Operations

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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.

Huhtamaki’s North America Business segment is a leading manufacturer of consumer goods packaging as well as tableware, cups, folding cartons, containers, trays and service ware for the foodservice industry and retail markets. Our product portfolio includes Chinet®, the leading brand of premium tableware. Huhtamaki North America with sales of $1.3B employs approximately 42,000 people in 18 manufacturing location with its US headquarters in De Soto, KS. The parent company, Huhtamaki Oyj, has its head office in Espoo, Finland. Huhtamaki Oyj is the #1 globally operating foodservice packaging and molding fiber company in the world.

We’re looking for professionals to join our team of approximately 17,000 people in 34 countries. You’ll think creatively about making our business and those of our customers’ more effective and successful. You’ll always be looking for new ways of working. And along the way you’ll be making a difference to some of the world’s biggest brands, by helping great products reach more people, more easily.

Job Summary

The purpose of the Operations Manager is to direct all manufacturing operations and manage utilization of equipment, facilities, and personnel to obtain maximum efficiency and meet or exceed performance objectives. Drive manufacturing departments to identify projects and initiatives to meet all plant level and departmental KPI’s. These include Safety, Quality, Productivity and Cost Savings initiatives. Drive Continuous improvement philosophy throughout manufacturing, examples are driving focus on reducing DPPM and TCPM, Cpk improvements, etc.   Responsible for training and career development, discipline, and performance appraisal process.  Manages area operations and budget for all production processes. 

Essential Functions

• Champions and fully participates in all company safety programs
•  Implements CI process programs and projects
  • Manages relationships with quality, planning, warehouse, engineering, and maintenance to ensure timely satisfaction of customer requirements, projects (including new equipment installations or upgrades to existing equipment), and seamless transition across material/product flow process.
  • Supervises shift supervisors in all production related departments. 
  • Change agent for technological advances; identifies opportunities for site improvements.
  • Establishes staffing levels for all production departments.
  • Ensures established Company policies and procedures are followed relative to safety, quality, employee relations practices, etc.
  • Responsible for the training and development of department personnel.
  •  Other responsibilities and tasks as appropriate to achieve Company initiatives.

Job Qualifications

Required

• 4-year degree, preferably in, operations management, business management or engineering
•  Discrete manufacturing experience: paper or paperboard food packaging along with litho sheet fed printing preferred
•  Understanding of SPC and lean manufacturing principles

• Team problem solving; facilitation.
•  Computer literate: MS Office required, MS Project or other project management software a plus.
•  BPCS manufacturing software system knowledge desirable.
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to communicate orally and in writing; ability to present information one on one and in group settings, at all levels of the organization, under all circumstances; diplomatic.
• Detail oriented; organized; self-starter; flexible; change agent.
•  Must be able to work concurrently on multiple priorities and projects.
   

Environment

• Spends approximately 50% of time walking and touring manufacturing areas.
• Some automobile or air travel is required.

Join us to shape the future together!