Operations/Production/Manufacturing

Amcor Limited; Saint Seurin; Remote; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amcor is seeking a Plant General Manager for the Saint Seurin site in France to lead 100 staff across shifts and ensure safety, quality and performance.

You will drive CI, manage budgets, coordinate with leadership, and implement improvements to sustain 24/7 operations and align with Amcor's global packaging business.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years in manufacturing with supervision.
• Packaging experience is an advantage.
• Experience managing significant change projects.
• Lean and continuous improvement knowledge (Six Sigma, Kaizen).
• Degree in science/engineering; advanced degree advantageous.
• Knowledge of production machines, SAP & shop floor systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety programs and promote safety culture.
• Deliver production budget: volumes, cost-to-produce, cost-out.
• Set goals and lead CI projects with line managers.
• Define organizational processes, roles, shifts within budget.
• Promote Amcor culture within the plant.
• Motivate and develop the team; improve performance.
• Lead CI projects and KPI reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Lean methods

Fluent French

English fluency

Education

Engineering degree or science

Advanced degree advantageous

Tools

SAP

Shop floor systems

Job description

Department: Operations/Production/Manufacturing

Full-time or Part-time: Full-Time

Job Type: Employee

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

Line Manager’s Job Title: Plant General Manager

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Job Purpose

Saint Seurin site belongs to our Wine & Spirits ( W&S ) Business Unit. The W&S Bu siness Unit of Amcor Flexibles EMEA utilises sophisticated coating, printing and forming technologies across several sites in Europe and Americas , supplying a range of closures and overcaps to prestigious actors of the Wine & Spirits global market .

• Safety
• Compliance with company/plant policies and procedures
• Alignment with customer satisfaction objectives , plant performance and cost control targets
• Focus on continuous improvement
• W ithin Plant Leadership Team, support PGM in the plant management, with a drive for excellence approach .

Job Dimensions & Scope

Turnover for the Plant: €29Mil

Process: transformation of raw materials in end products

Member of the Site Management Team

Staff: 100 people (5 direct reports, shift leaders, Curative maintenance leader, Ink and Paint Supervisor)

Scope & Geographical spread: Saint Seurin Plant, France.

Plant operating 24/7

Principal Accountabilities

• Supporting the organisation for the management of the safety performance of the plant
• Taking an active role in the plant’s safety programs and goals, and spreading safety culture
• Delivering budget in terms of production volumes, cost-to-produce and cost-out.
• Defining and assigning goals and improvement projects to the line managers focused on competitiveness, efficiency and business continuity
• Defining and managing organisational processes and improvements (roles, responsibilities, number of headcounts, shifts, activities), according to company policies and budget
• Promoting Amcor Culture (Values and Behaviour) within the plant
• Maintaining high level of motivation and engagement within his organisation.
• Heightening own team performances, knowledge and leadership
• Leading and supporting CI improvement projects
• Defining, reporting and analysing the correct KPIs to control processes performance
• Supporting PGM and Plant Leadership Team in the plant management
• Supporting PGM and HR in industrial relations and disciplinary issues
• Creating value through best practices sharing with other plants and introduction of new technologies

Directs reports of Production Manager are:

Production Shift Leaders (3), who are responsible for:

• Leading the people on the floor
• Managing daily operations, quality and safety
• Ensuring the shift runs smoothly
• Solve problems in real time
• Implementing improvement initiatives

Curative Maintenance Leader, who is responsible for:

• ensuring the rapid and effective restoration of the site’s machine park following breakdowns or technical failures.
• Optimizing and improving the site’s machine park

Inks and Paint Supervisor, who is responsible for:

• Use and optimization of inks
• Industrializing inks and keeping an eye on technological developments in the processes
• Participating in solving quality problems of stakeholders (clients – operations – suppliers)
• Taking part in the industrialization phases of new products to ensure production quality within their workshop, during their shift.

Qualifications/Requirements

Formal Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment and supervision
• Experience in packaging is an advantage but not a pre-requisite for the role
• Experience of successfully managing significant change / transformation projects within a manufacturing environment.
• First-hand experience of Lean and continuous improvement methodologies e.g. Six Sigma, Kaizen etc.
• Degree in a science, technology or engineering subject preferred, advanced degree advantageous.
• Knowledge of production machines, tools and related process control equipment, energy management, SAP and shop floor systems, safety and environmental regulation (France, EU), use of statistic calculation tools, basics of finance, Integrated Quality Assurance Systems (EHS, quality);

Specific Skills and Abilities

• Always search team working and a coordinated management of the dept.
• Execute promptly the activities established by the action plans
• Customer orientation (final and internal customer)
• Promote active communication and keep a positive attitude towards problem solving.
• Have initiative and be adaptable towards internal and external opportunities and threats.
• Fluent French, Fluent spoken and written English; other languages advantageous.
• Strong leadership & coaching skills
• Drive and energy.
• Hands-on.
• Pragmatic.
• Analytical and structured.

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About Amcor

Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.

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