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
Lead the various functions performed at the site. Maintain a safe work environment, manage the financial results; build and maintain an effective organization, protect/maintain the physical assets. Cost effectively meets customer expectations, function as part of a multi-plant manufacturing system.
Essential Functions
- Manage / Reduce Costs. Meet/Exceed operating earnings budget.
- Monitor Customer Satisfaction to generate revenue.
- Overall responsibility for site food safety program.
- Member of the site Food Safety Steering Team and the Site Recall team
- Lead an effective safety process to reduce injuries and COMP costs.
- Maintain Plant & equipment to meet Production requirements.
- Build and lead an effective team to improve organizational effectiveness and conduct succession planning.
- Engage in New Business development to increase revenue.
- Lead effective “Environmental Process” to meet/exceed legal requirements.
- Reducing labor component of cost while improving asset utilization.
- Establish process control.
- Improve effectiveness of safety process.
- Build a corrective action process.
- Fill team vacancies.
- Build a Quality system.
- Create an aggressive continuous improvement process.
- Broaden responsibility/accountability of subordinates.
Job Qualifications
Required
- Working with a Labor Union, Negotiate at least one (1) contract.
- Broad Finance Background, Understand P/L, product costs.
- Mechanical Aptitude.
- Engineering Degree.
- Effective Team Builder.
- Excellent Communication Skills.
- Willingness to Travel.
Preferred
- Experience in the Packaging Industry.
- Business Degree.
- Engineering Degree.
- Other Printing Technologies, (FLEXO).
- Willingness to Consider Relocation.
- Cup Manufacturing Experience.
- Jobs to gain experience: Project Engineer, Leader of OPS Group of Progressively bigger size, Field Exposure, GM, Field Sales, Tech Service, Quality.
- Leadership in a Manufacturing environment progressing to Mid-Size/Complex, for 10-15 years.
- Experience in a customer driven environment “make to order” for 5-10 years.
- Print offset 3-5 years.
- Project Management, 5-10 years.
- Demonstrated Ability to Manage Multiple Priorities, 10-15 years.
Environment
- Accessibility of all worksites required for this position.
- Exposure to weather and temperature extremes.
- Exposure to darkness.
- Exposure to loud noises.
- Exposure to chemicals and fumes.
- Exposure to dust.
- Amount of overtime/extended work hours required.
- Endurance: Prolonged physical activity with limited opportunity to rest.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
Skills Required
- Working with a Labor Union; negotiate at least one contract
- Broad finance background; understand P&L and product costs
- Mechanical aptitude
- Engineering degree
- Effective team builder
- Excellent communication skills
- Willingness to travel
- Experience in the packaging industry
- Business degree
- Familiarity with flexo or other printing technologies
- Willingness to consider relocation
- Cup manufacturing experience
- Progressive manufacturing leadership experience (10-15 years)
- Experience in make-to-order/customer-driven environments (5-10 years)
- Print offset experience (3-5 years)
- Project management experience (5-10 years)
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities (10-15 years)
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
