Job Description

Inspired to grow with your experience, learn and share with new colleagues?

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

Direct manufacturing shift operations and manage utilization of equipment, facilities and personnel to obtain maximum efficiency and meet or exceed defined performance objectives. Drive Individual Shift to identify and meet or exceed all plant level and departmental KPI’s. These include Safety, Quality, Productivity and Cost Savings initiatives.

Ensures that the plant goals and objectives are achieved by managing the performance for their assigned areas focusing on 5S, quality, safety, uptime, cost control, and schedule attainment.

Develop and build successful shift team through training, succession planning and employee assessments at all hourly levels.

Develop, Implement, and train team on standardized departmental practices and procedures, including implementation of Best Demonstrated Practices.

Essential Functions

• Improve safety recordable rate through heightened awareness, safety audits and improvements in housekeeping. Ultimate goal is zero recordable and lost time injuries. Without continuous and intense focus, recordable injuries will continue.
• Achieve OEE budget for department by managing the effective utilization of equipment and personnel to maximize efficiency. Without effective management of manufacturing departments, OE goals would be difficult to achieve.
• Manage Departmental budget through daily, review of production numbers, weekly and monthly departmental reviews and daily cost control measures. By focusing on meeting production demands at or under budget, OEE goals will be met or exceeded.
• Direct Departmental improvement activities by building cost reduction initiatives, capital project plan and improvement activities. Continuous improvement activities are essential in order for Huhtamaki – Fulton to become a World Class manufacturing facility.
• Implement Continuous Improvement through relentless focus on corrective, and more importantly, preventive actions and building this philosophy throughout the organization above.
• Improve end product quality. Both on a cost basis and by meeting or exceeding customer expectations. Continuous improvement, process improvements, SPC and improved quality systems are just some examples. Improved product quality will improve consistency which will reduce internal failure cost, (waste and DT), and external failures- customer claims.
• Develop effective team. Set clear goals and objectives, give tools to succeed and give responsibility and authority to make decisions. Strong teams will achieve more by working as a group towards common goals and objectives.
• Hold safety meetings and team meetings as needed.
• Trouble shoot machine issues and quality forming defects. Manage employee poor work performance – rule violations, excessive absenteeism, fitness for duty status, etc.

Salary: $72,000+ DOE

Job Qualifications

• Knowledge of manufacturing – production schedules, overtime procedures; strong pc skills – including Word, Outlook, Excel; HALO, BPCS, ability to multi task and have strong ability to problem solve; have good people skills; strong communication skills – both verbal and electronic; become familiar with all Company procedures, past practices and the current CBA. Have a solid mechanical aptitude. High School diploma; college diploma is desirable; have 3-5years of progressive responsibility and experience with high volume – manufacturing environment. Have a proven track record of success managing a multi-process or departmental production group – 5-10 yrs of experience supervising a manufacturing group is desirable.

Environment

• Work within a manufacturing environment. Work in various ambient temperatures. Sit, stand, walk, and bend frequently during a normal work shift. Be able to distinguish close tolerances in raw materials and finished goods – including print registration, colors and alignment.

Join us to shape the future together!