Senior Production Manager

Bic Corporation; Champs-sur-Marne; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

BIC World in Marne-la-Vallée is seeking a Senior Production Manager to lead the MLV plant operations, focusing on safety, efficiency and cost control to deliver daily volumes for CRISTAL, 4 COLORS and M10.

You will coordinate production, maintenance, quality, logistics and other functions, drive continuous improvement, manage budgets, and ensure compliance with quality standards and certifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing.
• Manufacturing processes, lean manufacturing.
• Large people management experience.
• Unionized staff, plant financials exposure.
• 15+ years in Manufacturing/Production.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Fluent in English and French.

Responsabilités

• Ensure the safest conditions for all employees and promote safety culture.
• Review and consolidate department budgets for the upcoming year.
• Control operations, expenses, headcount, investments, and purchasing.
• Ensure initiatives to enhance organizational culture and equity.
• Guarantee service levels for internal and external customers by meeting production schedules.
• Adhere to quality standards and international certifications.
• Deploy resources to each production line and maintenance.
• Report production results with continuous improvement actions.
• Coordinate production start-up for new products and collaboration with Logistics.
• Provide technical support in industrial projects and reach KPI targets.
• Lead collaboration with Procurement, Core Tech, Innovation and Quality Lab.

Connaissances

Leadership

People management

Lean manufacturing

Communication

Change management

Financial awareness

Safety culture

Strategic planning

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing

Description du poste

Senior Production Manager

Marne La Vallee, FR

BIC

On site

Description:

Join BIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways.

Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, global impact on our mission.

As MLV Senior Production Manager you support the implementation of strategies to achieve the operational and financial results in MLV Plant.

Marne-la-Vallée plant priority is to deliver on daily bases its volumes for CRISTAL, 4 COLORS and M10 products, to distribute on all European markets.

The plant manufactures over 10 billion of components and over 500 million of finished ball pens per year with a value of 54 M Euros; managing the processes from Metallurgy to Assembly operations, complying with Quality standards based on international certifications; this results are represented in metrics related to all employees safety, production volume and costs, products quality, plant efficiency, equipment maintenance, labor stability and people development, assuring operational efficiency of MLV.

MLV factory also serves most of the other stationery factories with components such as inks and points and lead the collaboration in site between the groups of manufacturing, BIC Tech, R&D and QA Lab´s.

According to the profile, the senior manager be will leading different departments, which will evolve through time (Production departments, maintenance, HSE, Quality, Logistics, …)

Job description

• Ensure the safest conditions for all the employees and boost the cultural change of Safety through all the organization by adopting the established safety measure and actively promoting safety culture
• Review and consolidate the Budget of his department for the upcoming year, including assumptions, volumes, projects, capacity, labor, materials costs, expenses, investments, savings and standard cost evolution (for products manufactured in the plants).
• Control of all the operations, follow up of expenses, head count, investments and authorize purchasing of maintenance and manufacturing over 1,000 USD getting a total of 1 M Euros in expenses per year (on the whole scope).
• Ensure initiatives to enhance the culture of the organization and the equity for the employees.
• Guarantee the service level for the internal customers and external customers by accomplishing production schedules.
• Respect Quality standards dictated by the Category and/or the international certifications and taking care that all the operations follow them.
• Deploy and manage all the resources assigned to each production line, Department, materials, headcount, equipment usage and maintenance.
• Report production results in consistent basis along with the definition of continuous improvement actions.
• Coordinate all the activities of production for the request of new products start up, current production improvement and also coordinate with Logistic and Central Supply Department for the Attainment and Adherence of our productions.
• Provide any needed technical support in industrial or core tech. projects
• Ensure accomplishment of operational efficiency level KPI for all the perimeters to achieve the result. Design and deploy improvement plan to reach and/or sustain the efficiency level.
• Coordinature and lead the collaboration and alignment with other functions in site, Procurement, Core Tech, Innovation and Quality Lab´s.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing
• Manufacturing processes, lean Manufacturing
• Large people management
• Unionized staff, plant financials
• Over 15 years in Manufacturing / Production
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to translate local action plan in concrete short- term results
• Enthusiastic, change champion & strong capacity to connect with all the stakeholders
• High communication skills
• Fluent in English and French

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.