Production Unit Leader

JOB STATEMENT & ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Financial & Business Performance

• Own the workshop operating budget and financial performance.
  
• Deliver business targets including revenue, product margin, profitability, absorption, and indirect cost performance.
  
• Monitor operational and financial KPIs and implement corrective actions.
  
• Lead initiatives that improve productivity, profitability, and cost competitiveness.
  
• Develop forecasts, capacity plans, and investment recommendations.
  
• Prepare monthly operational, financial, quality, and HSE reports.
  
• Identify cost reduction opportunities while maintaining safety and quality.
  

Operations Leadership

• Lead daily workshop operations to achieve production, delivery, quality, and financial objectives.
  
• Manage production schedules, capacity, labor, equipment, and subcontracting.
  
• Establish long-term operational strategies.
  
• Drive Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement.
  
• Optimize throughput, equipment utilization, logistics, and material flow.
  

Health, Safety & Environmental Leadership

• Promote a strong safety culture.
  
• Ensure compliance with HSE policies and regulations.
  
• Lead safety observations, investigations, and corrective actions.
  
• Maintain safe equipment and facilities.
  

Quality Management

• Maintain responsibility for workshop quality performance.
  
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions.
  
• Reduce scrap, rework, and Cost of Poor Quality.
  
• Drive First-Time-Right performance.
  

Continuous Improvement

• Champion Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen.
  
• Standardize best practices.
  
• Improve productivity through process optimization.
  

Systems & Operational Data

• Ensure effective ERP and production planning system utilization.
  
• Promote data accuracy and reporting.
  
• Support operational decisions through analytics.
  

Leadership & People Development

• Lead, coach, and develop supervisors and employees.
  
• Conduct performance management and succession planning.
  
• Build an accountable, engaged, high-performing team.
  

Customer & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Quality.
  
• Maintain strong customer relationships.
  
• Support business development and procurement planning.
  

Decision Making Authority

• Daily management of workshop operations.
  
• Production scheduling and workforce planning.
  
• Operational spending within authority limits.
  
• Continuous improvement implementation.
  

Key Performance Indicators

• Financial: Revenue, Product Margin, Profitability, Absorption, Indirect Cost.
  
• Operations: OTD, Productivity, Capacity Utilization, Throughput, Schedule Adherence.
  
• Quality: COPQ, Scrap, Rework, Customer Complaints, First-Time-Right.
  
• HSE: LTIR, Near Misses, Safety Observations, Compliance.
  
• People: Engagement, Training, Workforce Stability, Succession.
  

AUTHORITY & LEADERSHIP:

This position requires a high degree of decision-making authority working in conjunction with the Senior Manager, Global Workshop Operations and Area Management Team members and the leaders within assigned Business Line responsibilities. Position has direct reports.


POSITION QUALIFICATIONS - Education & Experience:
Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  
• Minimum 5 years of manufacturing or industrial operations leadership experience.
  
• Strong financial and business acumen.
  
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement.
  
• Knowledge of ERP systems, production planning, quality systems, and HSE.
  
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
  

COMPENTENICES:
Core Competencies

• Strategic Leadership
  
• Operational Excellence
  
• Financial Acumen
  
• Lean Manufacturing
  
• Customer Focus
  
• Decision Making
  
• Talent Development
  
• Change Leadership
  
• Continuous Improvement
  
• Collaboration
  

We offer

We offer a challenging work environment that values innovation and suits development-minded people who enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic setting. Includes a generous wage and benefits package that includes a pension and a 401k with company match.

Please note that any offer of employment is contingent upon a background check and pre-employment physical and drug screen.

Additional Information

Delivering competitive technologies and services is what we do best. At Valmet, we continue to push forward and develop ourselves, concentrating on technology, services, sustainability, local presence, and our people.

To be included in the recruiting process, please apply directly with us online.

When everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 19,000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. Our commitment to moving our customer's performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how - and above all, teamwork. Join the team!

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