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.
Essential Functions
This list is not all encompassing and other duties may be assigned.
- Monitors the safety environment of the workplace and acts to eliminate unsafe conditions, practices, equipment, and personnel.
- Enforces GMPs and all company policies and procedures.
- Confers with management personnel to establish production and quality standards.
- Reviews new products and provides feedback via the Commercialization process.
- Consults with engineering personnel, relative to changes to equipment or materials, to increase production throughput, reduce costs, and/or improve the quality of products.
- Coordinates production activities with Maintenance, Tooling, Materials, and QA activities to generate maximum quality production with efficient utilization of materials, equipment, and manpower. Leads cross functional meetings.
- Revises production schedules and priorities to accommodate unforeseen events relating to raw materials, equipment, sales demands, personnel, weather, etc.
- Monitors Production employees with regards to staffing levels, skill levels, training requirements, safety, demonstrated performance, and acts to continuously improve the quality and ability of the work force.
- Compiles, stores, retrieves, and analyzes production related data.
- Generates reports as needed.
- Completes all reviews for direct reports and oversees the review process for all Team Members in the department.
- Oversees the disciplinary process for all direct report and overall department.
- Leads improvement projects and be a pillar(s) leader in production-based programs.
Job Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required
- Communication/Language Skills
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and management.
- Must possess good inter-personal skills.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs.
- Ability to identify and define problems involving several concrete variables in a standardized situation.
- Ability to research information, collect and analyze data, draw valid conclusions, and make recommendations and plans of action.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Knowledge of continuous improvement programs like: World Class Manufacturing, Toyota Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, etc.
- Ability to give/receive feedback and progressively document, when necessary, both positive and constructive, on performance related issues.
Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field highly preferred; Seven (7)+ years related experience in manufacturing highly preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Production experience in folding carton or other related industries preferred.
- Experience in managing production floor personnel preferred.
Environment
Will work in a well-lighted and clean manufacturing environment. Requires moderate sitting (50%), with occasional walking (25%) and standing (25%). You will use standard office equipment and digital tools. Requires twisting, stooping/bending, squatting/kneeling, climbing ladders and stairs. Requires occasional lifting/carrying up to 50 lbs. Requires reaching above, at and below shoulder level. Visual requirements include near/far acuity, depth perception and color vision.You must adhere to personal food safety standards as well as standard safety equipment including, but not limited to: Safety shoes, hair/beard net, safety glasses and hearing protection. You will be expected to travel to other Huhtamaki facilities, seminars, etc. by both ground and air
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
Skills Required
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (read, analyze, interpret technical procedures, write reports, present to groups)
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and management; strong interpersonal skills
- Proficient math skills including add/subtract/multiply/divide, fractions/decimals, compute rate/ratio/percent, interpret graphs
- Ability to identify, define and solve problems using data analysis and make recommendations
- Ability to follow and execute written, oral, or diagram instructions; apply common sense
- Knowledge of continuous improvement programs (World Class Manufacturing, Toyota Lean, Six Sigma, TPM)
- Ability to give/receive feedback and document performance issues appropriately
- Enforce Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and company policies
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent education/experience
- Seven (7)+ years related manufacturing experience
- Production experience in folding carton or related industries
- Experience managing production floor personnel
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
