Technical Manager - Amcor - Monceau

About Amcor

Amcor is a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other products. Amcor works with leading companies around the world to protect their products and the people who rely on them, differentiate brands, and improve value chains through a range of flexible and rigid packaging, specialty cartons, closures, and services. The company is focused on making packaging that is increasingly light-weighted, recyclable and reusable, and made using a rising amount of recycled content. Around 47,000 Amcor people generate US$12.5 billion in sales from operations that span about 230 locations in 40-plus countries. NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC

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Job Details

Position Job Title: Technical Manager Amcor Flexibles Monceau

BG and BU: Meat Fresh & Dairy BU AFEMEA

Function: Operations

Sub-Function: Operations

Location: Monceau, Belgium

Line Manager’s Job Title: Plant General Manager

Advertising Legal Entity: Amcor Flexibles Monceau

Work contract Legal Entity: Amcor Flexibles Monceau

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Purpose

The Technical Manager will report to the Amcor Flexibles’ Monceau site manager within the Meat Fresh & Dairy Business Unit of Amcor Flexibles EMEA. This role has 2 direct reports. The Technical Manager is responsible for the realization of the Operations through the improvement of the production process, as well as the industrialization of new products and management of innovation requirements.

Job Dimensions & Scope

Monceau AF site employees approximately 100 employees with a 25M€ turnover. It is predominantly focused on the Meat & Cheese Packaging manufacturing.

Internal stakeholders:

• Sales Function AFEMEA
• R&D
• Operations Function AFEMEA
  

External stakeholders:

• Customers
• Suppliers
  

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead process improvements on site
• Supervise and develop the technical team
• Ensure the site based team provides effective support to the manufacturing operation in respect of policing quality systems.
• Ensure appropriate technical evaluation of products is completed in order to ensure customer requirements are met in full.
• Provide the effective management of innovation needs of the customer base, inclusive of “blue sky thinking”, from concept to full commercialisation of product.
• Supervise and support tasks related to the tests, samples and new designs in collaboration with the Sales team and pre-press teams.
• Follow up of innovation on external technology (machine, materials, pre-press tools) analyze the need and benefit from these innovation in collaboration with the management team.
• Coordinate in the plant of AFEMEA European initiatives, as well as technology transfers
• Define production standards and keep them up to date in the ERP (used for pricing and costing)
• Provide technical support for the definition and implementation of new CAPEX
• Ensure that the Methods meet group requirements (Security, etc.)
• Drive the continuous improvement of the production by analysing production KPI's and find innovative solutions to optimize these results
• Complete analytical tasks in order to accurately measure performance against standard KPIs.
• Manage key projects (e.g. installations; plant improvements; upkeep of facility; volume transfer between plants, etc.)
• Ensure application and enforcement of all company policies and procedures
• Actively participate in the development of “green packaging” solutions and the Sustainability projects
• Be the point of contact between the Business Development & Sales Function and the plant
• Liase with customers and suppliers, on a proactive and reactive basis in cooperation with the sales
  

Major Challenges & Complexities

• Teamwork spirit
• Promote a strong safety culture and demonstrates adherence to all Environmental, Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• Actively contribute to a high performance culture and innovation at the site
• Facilitate and enforce all company policies and procedures.
• Meet or exceed plant business plan and KPI’s.
• Cooperation on the Continuous Improvement initiatives into the culture of the Plant.
• Transferring know-how, sharing knowledge
• Close contacts and good collaboration with R & D / Marketing
  

Qualifications/Requirements

• Formal Qualifications and Experience

• University Degree in Chemical Engineering or similar
• Min. 4 years of experience in production processes or in a manufacturing organization
• Experience in printing and conversion process
• Experience in rotogravure would be an asset
• Experience working with new products or R&D would be an asset
• Experience in technical project management
• Knowledge of Quality standards
  Fluent French & English
  

• Specific Skills and Abilities

• Excellent knowledge of process, materials, finished and semi-finished products
• Ability to keep abreast of technical innovations in products & materials and integrate them into site processes.
• Capacity in Time Management & Priorities.
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to manage a several projects simultaneously
• Solution oriented with change management perspective
• Innovative & creative mindset
• Willingness to travel up to 20%
  

AMCOR FLEXIBLES EMEA

With more than 55 plants in 22 countries , Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East and Africa (AFEMEA), a division of Amcor, is a market leader and the world's largest supplier of flexible packaging. We deliver innovative packaging solutions and provide enhanced quality products for the food, beverage, pharma, personal care, medical and industrial markets. Its award winning approach towards sustainability makes AFEMEA the preferred partner for customers looking for responsible packaging solutions.