Jobs at Kronospan

Manage all operations at a wood recycling centre, including staffing, resource allocation, facility maintenance, waste processing, compliance, budgets, reporting, and customer and supplier relationships. Lead and develop operatives, enforce health, safety, and environmental standards, optimise recycling processes, resolve operational issues, and promote sustainable waste management. The role also requires supporting other sites with a valid driving licence.

Summer internship providing hands-on training, mentoring, and project experience across technical and commercial functions at a wood panel manufacturing facility. Interns may support operations, maintenance, finance, HR, logistics, purchasing, sales, or marketing while developing problem-solving, communication, analytical, and process-improvement skills.

Manage HR administration and end-to-end monthly payroll, including inputs, benefits, deductions, statutory reporting, onboarding, and offboarding. Respond to employee and manager inquiries, maintain personnel records, support recruiting and applicant management, ensure labor-law compliance, assist audits, prepare reports, and improve HR and payroll processes. Collaborate with Finance and other departments to ensure accurate data flow.

Conduct workplace inspections and audits, develop safety policies, investigate incidents, implement corrective actions, train employees, maintain safety records, and collaborate with management and staff to improve workplace safety.

Analyzes timber, recycling, production, inventory, and operating-cost data. Responsibilities include cost accounting, variance analysis, profitability reporting, budgeting, forecasting, stock valuation, reconciliations, management reporting, audit support, certification reporting, and investment grant follow-up. The role ensures data accuracy in KSoft+, supports industrial process improvements, and collaborates with Finance, Production, Maintenance, Purchasing, Quality, and management teams.

Provides administrative and coordination support to the Sales and Marketing team. Responsibilities include managing product samples and reports, monitoring enquiries, maintaining records, coordinating marketing materials, supporting trade shows, updating website content, assisting with social media, and liaising with suppliers and external contacts.

Coordinates payroll submission, benefits enrollment and administration, presentations, work uniforms, correspondence, and HR-related coverage. Maintains confidential records and complex electronic filing systems while supporting employees and other HR functions. Requires advanced Microsoft Office and spreadsheet skills, including formulas, pivot tables, and macros, along with payroll, benefits, and ERP experience. Some evening and weekend work may be required.

Provides administrative support to the HR department, including filing and retrieving documents, entering employment records, arranging travel, supporting employee-experience programs, improving HR processes, and coordinating projects. Requires strong Microsoft Office proficiency, communication, editing, customer service, organization, and multitasking skills. An associate or bachelor’s degree in business or a related field is preferred.

Supports a broad range of HR activities, including employee communications, HR administration, training grant claims, recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, HR data analysis, and business initiatives. The trainee will contribute to improving employee experience, maintain awareness of employment legislation and HR best practice, and build relationships across the organisation while developing professional HR knowledge.

Lead UK and group-wide talent acquisition, including recruitment strategy, executive and specialist hiring, sourcing, interviews, ATS administration, visa support, and onboarding. Manage HR compliance, employee relations, disciplinary and absence processes, performance management, manager coaching, union liaison, wellbeing initiatives, HR projects, and monthly KPI reporting. Provide HR leadership cover and occasional international support across company locations.

Manage the daily operation, maintenance, safety, compliance, and performance of a biomass energy centre supplying heat and energy to manufacturing processes. Lead operational and maintenance teams, oversee contractors and budgets, monitor KPIs and efficiency, maintain regulatory documentation, and support continuous improvement, decarbonisation, and energy optimisation initiatives.

Leads monitoring, optimization, maintenance support, energy balancing, and process parameter adjustment for energy production facilities. Supervises safe team operations, supports boiler commissioning and operator training, assists the Energy Manager with production objectives, and prepares monthly reports. Also develops R&D strategies, manages external research collaborations, and implements process-improvement initiatives to improve production quality and efficiency.

Supports daily despatch operations across the office, yard, and warehouse. Coordinates HGV and forklift drivers, schedules and tracks outbound deliveries, prepares delivery documentation, maintains accurate dispatch records, checks paperwork, resolves discrepancies, and communicates with warehouse, sales, drivers, and customers to ensure safe, on-time, in-full deliveries.

Supports waste collection coordination, waste audits, environmental monitoring, site inspections, EHS audits, KPI reporting, recordkeeping, and responses to noise, odour, and dust complaints. Provides administrative support to the Environment, Health & Safety team at a manufacturing site while working with contractors, regulators, internal departments, and the public.

Lead end-to-end logistics and goods flow from production through customer delivery. Manage transport planning, carrier selection, warehouse operations, loading teams, customs compliance, freight negotiations, invoice approval, and logistics performance reporting. Optimize routes, costs, capacity, storage, and multimodal transportation while coordinating with production, sales, customers, carriers, customs agencies, and operational supervisors.

Develop, deploy, and optimize AI and machine learning solutions across Riga operations. Analyze large datasets, identify process improvements, integrate AI with existing IT infrastructure, evaluate tools and frameworks, collaborate with operational teams, maintain deployed models, and automate business processes. The role also supports generative AI, MLOps, data engineering, and continuous digital transformation initiatives.

Build and maintain relationships with major Polish and international furniture-industry customers. Present decor collections, analyze customer and market trends, support decor concepts and product adaptations, and resolve product or design challenges. The role includes professional presentations, showroom work, customer visits, industry trade fairs, and extensive domestic and international travel.

12-month rotational leadership training program in a wood-panel manufacturing facility. Trainees learn management and technical production skills, lead improvement projects to reduce waste and optimize processes, and prepare for leadership roles upon program completion.

Analyze and forecast sales revenues and inventory; conduct daily sales activities for assigned accounts; analyze market and sales trends; prepare sales and budget reports; identify and target customers; negotiate terms; draft purchase orders; monitor order-to-delivery; and communicate with customers regarding products, preferences, satisfaction, and outstanding accounts.

Manage assigned flooring accounts by analyzing and forecasting sales and inventory, researching market trends, identifying customer targets, negotiating terms, drafting purchase orders, monitoring order-to-delivery, and maintaining customer communication and satisfaction. Work from the Anniston, AL manufacturing site when not visiting customers, attending tradeshows, or conducting training.