Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
Job Summary
Schedule production machinery to meet customer demand and inventory levels, while considering maintenance activity, material and manpower availability and machine capacity.
Essential Functions
- Manage production capacity for Los Angeles facility.
- Work with Production Planning Team to ensure processing of orders occurs in a timely manner.
- Ensure shop orders are assigned to appropriate work centers.
- Personally, visit each work center daily to establish working relationship with plant floor leadership and machine operators.
- Ensure coordination of production planning and machine utilization with Operations and Maintenance teams.
- Interface with Operations and Customer Service personnel to prioritize production plan to maximize customer demand and production efficiencies.
- Develop daily/weekly production plan, considering customer requirements, equipment, and resource availability including shop order Bill of Material.
- Communicate updated schedule status as needed.
- Develop improved production scheduling using sales forecast and planning system.
- Provides daily Operations update.
- Generate and distribute various production reports to support subsequent production activities (Fulton, Los Angeles, Desoto) DRP, or direct customer ship orders.
- Other responsibilities and tasks as appropriate to achieve company goals.
Job Qualifications
Required
- Computer literate: MS Office required.
- Broad knowledge of planning, manufacturing, inventory, and customer focus.
- Knowledge of manufacturing and planning control systems.
- Good problem-solving skills in a team environment or working on your own.
- Strong interpersonal skills: ability to communicate orally and in writing; ability to present information one on one and in group settings, at all levels of the organization, under all circumstances; diplomatic.
- Detail oriented and organized.
- Self-starter; flexible and able to work under pressure, with continuous interruptions.
- Must be able to work on multiple projects at one time without exhibiting undue stress.
Preferred
- High School Diploma required 4-year degree Business Management or related field preferred.
- Knowledge of ERP or MRP manufacturing software required, BPCS preferred.
- Knowledge of pulp and paper industry preferred.
- APICS involvement and certification preferred.
Environment
- Day to day functions will work closely with the Senior Planner.
- Works in partition office with normal office noise levels.
- Daily visits to all machine centers that planner schedules, PPE required: steel toe shoes, hair nets, ear plugs and eye protection.
- 10% to 20% of time daily in the manufacturing environment.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
Skills Required
- Computer literate: MS Office required
- Broad knowledge of planning, manufacturing, inventory, and customer focus
- Knowledge of manufacturing and planning control systems
- Good problem-solving skills in a team environment or working on your own
- Strong interpersonal skills: ability to communicate orally and in writing
- Detail oriented and organized
- Self-starter; flexible and able to work under pressure
- High School Diploma required 4-year degree Business Management or related field preferred
- Knowledge of ERP or MRP manufacturing software required, BPCS preferred
- Knowledge of pulp and paper industry preferred
- APICS involvement and certification preferred
Huhtamaki Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huhtamaki and has not been reviewed or approved by Huhtamaki.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive with dental and vision options, and employer contributions toward premiums are portrayed as generous. Feedback suggests this breadth makes the overall package feel competitive for many roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with pre‑tax and Roth options, with certain groups also having access to a pension and even deferred compensation. Feedback suggests these features stand out positively in a manufacturing context.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, and generous parental leave are emphasized alongside meaningful PTO accruals. Feedback suggests this leave structure strengthens perceived total rewards even where base pay is viewed as only fair.
Huhtamaki Insights
What We Do
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 embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030. We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
