Director of Operations

This is the growing American arm of a European Manufacturer of Rigid Packaging for Food and Beverage Segments. This company is vertically integrated from design to distribution and has aggressive plans for growth.

The facility has space for up to twenty manufacturing lines operating with extremely fast speeds and high cavitations. They are on pace for serious growth.

In 2022 there were two functional lines.

In 2024 they have expanded to Five.

Two more in 2025.

Two more in 2026. and on and on.

This is a strategic operational leader role that will be intimately involved in the organic growth, Cap-X investment, and S&OP. This is a facility rapidly approaching the need for end of line automation and a technically savvy front line work base.

This is NOT a turnaround. 1600 Days without a recordable incident. This facility requires a strong agent of change, but one who can take a high functioning operation and help it scale smoothly.

What We Need for this Role

Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices.

MASS PRODUCTION - Rigid Plastics Most Preferred, Packaging also preferred, Flexibles or Paper or other related high speed, high volume converting could work as well.

New Capital Equipment Acquisition, Installation, Justification.

Experience in a facility with a highly automated end of line packaging system is required, highly preferred if you oversaw the integration/installation of the system.

Strong analytical understanding of manufacturing data and the ability to use this data to drive decisions.

SIOP/S&OP - Different Machines have different capacity and run speeds. Organization and Coordination with Sales and Finance will be critical.

QMS Expertise - ISO-9001 required, SQF or another high level QMS preferred

Would be great if you also spoke Spanish.