Role: Corrugated Converting Operations / Maintenance / CI Manager - North America

Location: Fully Remote (you can be based ANYWHERE in the US)

Travel: Up to 80% travel (c4 days per week on average)

*Current Right to Work in the USA required*

This is an exciting role that spans North American manufacturing with a leading global packaging company. The role includes operations, technical/maintenance, and process improvement across the division.

There is currently a lack of operational and technical knowledge within the US sites, so you'll ideally have operational and technical knowledge of the corrugated converting process, including die-cutting, flexo, printing, folding, glueing etc. As such, you will ideally have an operational knowledge of the corrugated converting process, knowledge of troubleshooting machinery, completing machine calibrations, and training the plant teams on equipment etc.

Once these technical and operational improvements have been achieved, you'll lead the implementation and support of major initiatives for process improvement and elimination of loss for North America, while also liaising closely with your European counterparts.

The role:

• Assess, develop and action improvement plans, with a focus on driving KPI improvements
• Provide operational & technical leadership to identify areas for quality improvement and waste reduction with both the site operational teams and the Divisional Operational Excellence Director
• Collaborate with the Engineering Lead for Improvement to create systems & plans to ensure standard calibrations and maintenance programmes are standardized and implemented
• Support trials and lead the implementation programmes
• Transfer knowledge & expertise to train teams into converting process experts & leaders
• Lead the implementation of standardization and maximization of Process Control across the client's asset base, in conjunction with the Divisional Quality Manager and Engineering Director for North America
• Ensure good practices are developed and embedded to preserve system functionality of critical assets

Requirements:

• Corrugated converting environment (die-cutting, flexo, printing, folding & gluing etc)
• Ideally:
• Operations experience - an understanding of the process, materials and stages of corrugated converting
• Maintenance experience - someone who can troubleshoot and ideally complete machine calibrations etc
• Continuous improvement (CI) and change management experience a bonus
• Leadership, training and coaching abilities

If you are interested to learn more, please apply asap