Plant General Manager

Amcor; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading packaging company is seeking a Plant Manager to oversee plant operations, focusing on safety, quality, and cost-efficiency. The successful candidate will lead a team, manage human capital planning, and ensure compliance with safety regulations. A Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in production are required. Join us to drive continuous improvement and lead a high-performance culture.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision plans

Flexible time off

Retirement Savings Plan with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of relevant experience in a production environment.
• Demonstrated passion for safety.
• 5+ years of leadership experience, preferably in flexible packaging.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead overall plant operations ensuring achievement of targets.
• Oversee human capital planning and management for the facility.
• Lead and drive plant safety culture.

Skills

Strong financial acumen

Results Orientation

Team Leadership

Develops Organizational Capability

Customer Service mindset

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, or related field

Tools

Six Sigma Certification

Job description

Overview

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.

To learn more about playing for Team Amcor, visit amcor.com

Job Description

To manage and lead overall plant operations ensuring the achievement of plant targets for Safety, Quality, Service and Cost. This will be executed through providing strong leadership to the plant team and managing the systems, equipment, people and materials according to the established policies, procedures, specifications, and customer requirements. This individual reports directly to the Director-Manufacturing. The Plant Lead Team members will report directly to the Plant Manager (typically 4-8 direct reports) Scope for this Plant Manager role is a small to medium sized facility with typically 300 or less employees and low to mid-level complexity.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

• Leads and drives plant safety culture and puts safety first in all responsibilities.
• Leads identification of opportunities and problem areas for targeted improvement by creating, reviewing and monitoring data or reports that show performance to KPI's. (specifically, safety, quality, waste, and productivity)
• Oversees all aspects of human capital planning & management for the facility, including HC goal setting, improvement targets for KPI's, salary planning, performance management.
• Attract, hire, develop direct reports and create strong succession plans
• Ensure compliance with department safety, product safety, fire protection, Company polices/procedures, and housekeeping programs.
• Ensures effective, timely and well-developed communications for all product associates.
• Manage process control initiatives by ensuring manufacturing SOP's exist, and that they are sufficient for quality, safety, and process control.
• Leads plant budgeting processes
• Ensures execution of plant Cap-Ex
• Lead and ensure growth of CI culture by providing resources, participating in teams, and leading teams as necessary.
• Ensures facility compliance with local, state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Drives employee engagement action planning for the facility
• Leads communication to all plant associates regarding business needs and results
• Leads efforts at Best Practice sharing with other facilities
• Meets safety targets and drives a safety culture and environment to send every employee home everyday without injury.
• Meets or exceeds plant business plan and KPI’s.
• Delivers on established budget.
• Best Practices leadership
• Effective, cost-efficient planning and utilization of manpower, materials and machinery.
• Strong Human Capital planning, development and management for the facility.
• Drives High Performance Culture
• Plant talent to deliver on plan WHAT WE VALUE
• Strong financial acumen
• Results Orientation / Delivers on Plan
• Team Leadership
• Develops Organizational Capability
• Strategic Orientation / Enterprise Thinker
• Collaboration & Influence
• Change Leadership
• Facility Business Acumen/Market Knowledge

WHAT WE WANT FROM YOU

• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, or related field
• 7-10+ years of relevant experience in a production environment
• Demonstrated passion for safety
• 5+ years of leadership experience, preferably in flexible packaging
• Proven ability to lead and drive continuous improvement
• Strong Customer Service mindset
• Strong written and verbal communication skill
• Demonstrated understanding of drivers of plant results, including ability to interpret financial results
• Six Sigma Certification strongly preferred

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Equal Opportunity

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click on the poster named “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.” If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call 224-313-7000 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans
• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time off per year for full-time salaried employees
• Company-paid holidays starting at 9 days per year and may be slightly higher by location
• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary accident disability benefits are available
• Paid Parental Leave
• Retirement Savings Plan with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)
• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)

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. NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC

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