Opex Manager

Location: Alzira, ES
Department: Operations/Production/Manufacturing
Full-time or Part-time: Full-Time
Job Type: Employee
Shift: On site

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.

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Job Purpose

Amcor’s aspiration is to be renowned as the Flexibles industry leader in Operational Excellence. The Operational Excellence function will drive significant and sustainable competitive advantage across the value chain to generate top and bottom line growth. In addition to delivering gold standard performance, demonstrated through key performance indicators, the global Operational Excellence team will build and champion best-in-class organisational capabilities. This industry leading performance will be underpinned by developing the Amcor Flexibles Production System (AFPS), systematic collaboration across the Operational Excellence network and a ‘’One Amcor’’ approach across the global Flexibles business.

The OPEX Manager plays a critical role in the Plant performance, supporting the delivery of this step change in Operational Excellence; he / she will challenge accepted thinking and create a culture and a way of working focused on best practice sharing. The position reports to the Plant General Manager and works across the Plant, at a management level.

Alzira is an strategic site in the region receiving a level a high level of investment. The site has been chosen as pilot site globally to implement “Operation+ program” (IWS) and structured Manufacturing Excellence program based in 100% People involvement and Zero Loss Mentality through daily Production management systems.

The role exists to formulate and deliver an annual business cost-out plan for the business group in line with longer term strategic objectives, and to meet agreed KPIs, by analyzing operational performance at the plants and by creating a best-practice and transformational mindset.

Job Dimensions & Scope

The nature of the role involves applying management skills in Operational Excellence and leadership abilities, to ensure delivery of the key Operational Excellence KPIs at a business group level. It includes close collaboration with the Plant operations management team, middle managers, central functions and productions teams.

The dimensions & scope of the role include the following tasks:

Progressive “Operation +” Implementation journey across the whole site, being accountable of:
Capability creation, Team coaches and direct leaders and Process Engineers.
Systems implementation.
PDCA Cycle implementation on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis. Results Tracking and action planning.
New roles description and people development agenda.
Systems Audits and health checks.
Total cost Out Projects, minor Capex Project Management.
Process Improvements and Capex implementation.
Dirve of yearly Loss Analysis in broad scope: materials, productivity, supply chain and administration process, assets utilization..
Cost top-down targets.
Drive Continuous Improvement Projects masterplan with rigor and cadence.
Support deployment of manufacturing and supply Chain projects
Preparation/participation in bi-weekly steerco.
Amcor Technical Capabilities. .
Owner of Amcor Flexibles Production System business owner – scope Amcor Flexibles
AFPS development with subject matter experts, AFPS training
Platform administration – Web based
Support deployment of manufacturing projects
Data Management and Automation.
MES Business owner – scope AFEMEA
MES IT projects with sites
Platform administration – QlikView reporting
Monthly reporting.

Principal Accountabilities

The OPEX Manager is accountable for leading the implementation the Operation+ program across the site and managing and supporting a set of cross functional projects aimed at reducing costs and improving best practice-sharing within EMEA to generate a transformational mindset built around the Amcor Flexibles Production System (AFPS).

The principal accountabilities of the role are:
Operation+ systems implementation, based in Autonomous Maintenance, Focused Improvement, TPM and People development.
Train, coach and develop different levels of the organization in “Operation+”, to engage co-workers towards a culture of continuous improvement.
Drive a robust set of management tools and controls (Governance & Rigour) that is action orientated and is closely monitored with deviations swiftly rectified and roadblocks removed by escalation to PGM.
Collaborate pro-actively with teams across the plant to leverage best practice and drive a ‘’One Amcor’’ approach.
Rigorously track and report cost-out activities toward Amcor internal stakeholders to help them in setting the business priorities and driving business performance.
Develop, document and codify the Amcor Flexibles Production System (AFPS) including KPIs, standards and process best practices.
Manage and develop consistent business-wide tools to share best-practices across the global Flexibles business and measure and evaluate the efficiency of our operations

Qualifications/Requirements

Formal Qualifications and Experience

Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering or similar; advanced degree in Project Management advantageous.
Experience (min 5 years) in leading continuous process production areas (min +75 FTEs) in FMCG or Packaging companies.
IWS background and experience is desirable.
Experience (min 5 years) in working with Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing tools and processes.
Process development would be a value.
Experience on supporting significant change / transformation projects within a manufacturing environment.
Soft skills: agility to learn, influencing others, proactive mindset, action-minded, teamwork and autonomous responsibility.
MS office advanced knowledge including Excel expertise is requested. Digital capabilities for data management. Good IT understanding and ability to learn quickly.
Comfortable with numbers and finance principles
Spanish mother tongue. Fluent in written and spoken English; other languages (German, French) would be an advantage.

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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.
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