Plant Director

Join Amcor and you can be part of the team that makes the packaging of the future better for people and our planet.

Here at Amcor, we work together every day to make a positive impact on the lives of millions of people across the globe by providing packaging for essential products, including food, beverages, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care.

We are sustainability leaders in our industry. We are the first global packaging company to commit to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025.

Our products are vital to support the lives of millions of people across the globe every day.

We are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to innovating and driving new solutions to create more sustainable packaging solutions.

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At Amcor Rigid Packaging (ARP), our teams are focused on developing and making plastic bottles and jars that create a unique experience and are better for the environment. Our bottles and jars are primarily made from PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which has rapidly become the world’s preferred packaging material. PET is lightweight, shatterproof, recloseable, resealable, reusable and infinitely recyclable*.

With approximately 6,000 people across about 50 manufacturing operations in 11 countries and an annual revenue of US$2.9 Billion, ARP provides rigid packaging solutions to the beverage, pharmaceutical, food, and home and personal care segments.

Learn more about the many benefits of PET bottles here.

• with existing technologies including chemical recycling

Amcor Rigid Packaging

Plant Director

Brampton, ON Canada

Position Overview:
This position directs the day-to-day and strategic activities of a highly complex, large plant to achieve financial and operating objectives as determined by ARP and the Business Unit. The Plant Director is a key leadership role which manages all plant operations with overall responsibilities for safety, production, maintenance, warehouse, quality, customer relations, human resources, and finance. This position serves as the senior ARP representative locally, and is responsible for compliance with the Amcor code of conduct and for ensuring plant compliance with all regulations (federal and local), as well as other Amcor and ARP policies and procedures.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
Promotes a proactive and sustainable environmental, health and safety culture that supports Amcor “zero incident” goal and that exceeds local, state and federal requirements

Directs operational effectiveness to maximize efficiency and productivity

Ensures customer delivery and quality expectations are met

Plans and oversees the implementation of capital improvement projects to ensure adherence to approved plans, schedules and budgets

Responsible for all aspects of financial management of the plant; controls spending in all areas including capital, labor, energy and inventory

Resolves operational, manufacturing, employee and customer issues

Prepares and compiles various analysis and reports pertaining to plant utilization, labor efficiencies, materials usage, scrap, and labor

Responsible for compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (“GMP”) in food and/or pharmaceutical to consistently manufacture products according to quality standards, as well as other customer and regulatory quality standards

Works closely with customer contacts (quality and purchasing) to ensure coordination of activities and facilitation of customer relationship; participates in the resolution and prevention of customer complaints, and promotes solid customer relations in partnership with the commercial organization

Responsible for the overall development of people and skills throughout the plant to support talent management

Actively works to build high engagement of coworkers

Manages team of direct reports and is responsible for employee selection, development, mentoring, and performance management. Responsible for overall talent management and employee engagement; cultivates an environment of safety, high performance, and ethical and legal compliance; addresses employee relations issues

Keeps informed of technical and management developments to assure continued personal growth and to coach employees toward optimum performance

Expected Travel: 10%

Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree Engineering or related field preferred; minimally, Business Administration or similar

Master’s degree preferred

Minimum of ten years plant supervisory experience required, including three years in operations management

Proven track record of success in a large operation in the plastics packaging industry

Experience overseeing functions such as accounting or finance, safety and human resources, and quality preferred

Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources

Competencies:
Amcor Leadership Framework Competencies

Core Competencies:
Customer Focus

Learning on the Fly

Interpersonal Savvy

Drive for Results

3-5 Applicable ALF Competencies:
Managerial Courage

Motivating Others

Building Effective Teams

Developing Direct Reports

Managing Vision & Purpose

Relationships:
Direct reports

Amcor co-workers

Internal and external customers

Amcor Leadership typically at Level 3

Local community representative for Amcor

Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.

At Amcor we believe in talent through diversity and promote equal opportunity in the workplace and recognise that discrimination and harassment of co-workers based on race, creed, disability, gender, marital or maternity status, religious or political beliefs, age or sexual orientation is unlawful.

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job.

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