Continuous Improvement Manager

Accelerate The Possible

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.

Job Description

This position is responsible for deploying, implementing and leading Continuous Improvement initiatives and facilitating World Class Operations Management methodologies for the plant. The incumbent is a member of the plant leadership team and will be assigned additional responsibilities in other functional areas as required to deliver the plant's annual operating plan.

What You Get To Do

• Acts as a safety leader and puts safety first in all responsibilities. Works in conjunction with the EHS Manager to establish and maintain all policies and programs to assure a safe working environment.
• Facilitate deployment and integrate the philosophy of WCOM into the culture of the Plant.
• Identify the highest value cost savings projects and coordinate the various project teams assigned to ensure proper resourcing to drive completion of projects.
• As a member of the plant leadership team, also involved in daily production and operations issues to insure that we produce a quality product, deliver against our committed customer service goals, and optimize efficiency/productivity.
• Be recognized as a leader and problem solver at the site by providing leadership and expertise that will solve problems and improve performance.
• Motivate, coach and instill good management skills in engineers, shift supervisors, and hourly employees. Establish a strong presence on the floor to set and communicate expectations, standards, and evaluate results so all employees understand expectations.
• Initiate and lead employee training to further instill the continuous improvement skill set in the organization. Develop new processes and programs as need and where gaps exist.
• Led major projects as necessary to improve plant results.
• Be able to extract useful data from a variety of systems to facilitate identification of improvement opportunities.
• Coordinates the work necessary to improve our overall Continuous Improvement results as measured by regularly scheduled audits.
• Assist in generating reporting tools and progress reporting for assigned business areas.
• Facilitate a process of best practice sharing internally within the plant as well as externally with peers and other facilities.
• Management of communication process to present the status of plant improvement projects.
• Lead project selection process and drive policy deployment so that all employees have a clear understanding of goals and objectives for a successful year.
• Ability to drive change and overcome obstacles.
• Demonstrate and foster Amcor Core Values and actively contributes to a high performance culture.
• Demonstrated ability to absorb new technologies and management techniques.
• Utilize an approachable and participative style in motivating people to achieve higher standards and performance levels.
• Experience implementing lean principles or other continuous improvement methodologies preferred.

What We Value

• Results Orientation / Delivers on Plan Highest
• Team Leadership - High
• Develops Organizational Capability Medium
• Drives High Performance Culture High
• Customer Focus High
• Facility Business Acumen/Market Knowledge Medium
• Continuous Improvement Mindset High
• Collaboration and Best Practice Leadership - Medium

What We Want From You

• Bachelors Degree is required. Prefer a major in a technical background such as engineering or industrial technology.
• 5 years of operations management experience is preferred
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, SAP

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor's quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor's consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor's leadership and products

Equal Opportunity Employer

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans
• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees
• Company-paid holidays starting at 9 days per year and may be slightly higher by location
• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary accident disability benefits are available
• Paid Parental Leave
• Retirement Savings Plan with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)
• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)