Plant Director

Plant Director

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that's transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world. 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.

Responsibilities

• Foster and enhance the safety culture to achieve safety excellence
• Provide operational and employee leadership to the facility
• Manage financial performance and make required changes as needed to meet business commitments
• Manage all aspects of the plant cost structure including direct and indirect labor, maintenance and consumable spending and proactively control to business volume swings to preserve profitability
• Assist operating management with budgeting, production statistics, cost analysis, justification of capital expenditures and asset management
• Lead the facility in establishing and meeting continuous improvement objectives
• Partner with department managers to develop and maintain a positive culture consistent with Amcor's values, behaviors and mission
• Encourage and support the development of all plant employees
• Responsible for overall performance efficiencies and competitive service level for the plant
• Participate in process improvement and cost savings efforts
• Responsible for incorporating continuous quality improvement principles into daily quality culture
• Assures compliance with state and federal regulatory matters including OSHA, EPA, EEO and Affirmative Action, Quality Audits
• Overall management responsibility for the implementation of mandatory and best practice sharing for cost savings, safety compliance and reduced employee hazard exposure
• Coordinates the effective utilization of production capacity, staffing and equipment through planning, organizing and scheduling
• Continuously improves customer satisfaction through programs to provide on-time delivery that meets and / or exceeds customer quality and cost expectations
• Overall management responsibility for all aspects of quality including product performance, complaint resolution, customer satisfaction and maintenance and improvement of quality systems
• Maintains a sense of urgency and accountability in the plant to ensure prompt responses to employee needs
• Ensures the protection of company assets through appropriate maintenance methodologies
• Monitors raw materials and supplies on hand to ensure adequate supply
• Maintain 24 hour / day on call availability to deal with potential problems / issues

Qualifications

Additional Info

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. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click on the "Know Your Rights : Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" Poster.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call 224-313-700 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Amcor is a global leader in packaging solutions for consumer and healthcare products. With industry-leading innovation capabilities, global scale and technical expertise, we help our customers grow and meet the needs of millions of consumers every day. Our teams develop responsible, more sustainable packaging in flexible and rigid formats across multiple materials. Supported by a commitment to safety, ~70,000 colleagues across ~140 countries bring our global capabilities to local customers and provide local access to global brands. Our work is guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future.

Location

US-MS-HATTIESBURG

Job ID

2025-37410