At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in production.
- Company: Sealed Air, a global leader in packaging solutions with a focus on sustainability.
- Benefits: Career growth opportunities, diverse culture, and commitment to employee development.
- Other info: Join a team that values diversity and fosters continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic environment while driving operational excellence.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in relevant fields and proven leadership experience in manufacturing.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders.
As a Production Manager (Value Stream Leader), you will lead the end-to-end manufacturing operation, ensuring the safe, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of production targets. You will be responsible for driving operational excellence across production, quality, maintenance, supply chain, and logistics while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams, you will optimize resources, develop people, and implement strategies that improve productivity, service, quality, and profitability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the day-to-day operation of the manufacturing facility, providing strong leadership, direction, and accountability across production activities.
- Champion a strong safety culture, ensuring compliance with safety policies and promoting a safe working environment.
- Manage manufacturing budgets and cost performance, partnering with finance teams to deliver business objectives.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements, maintaining operational standards through strong governance and risk management.
- Optimize production performance by removing constraints and maximizing resources.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain and business teams to optimize manufacturing capacity and network performance.
- Develop and inspire high-performing teams, ensuring alignment with plant and company objectives.
- Drive quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement initiatives, monitoring operational metrics and implementing improvements.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Value Chain Management, or a related discipline.
- Proven experience leading manufacturing, production, or value chain operations.
- Demonstrated experience managing teams within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience delivering large-scale operational or transformation projects is highly desirable.
- Track record of driving productivity, quality, safety, and cost improvement initiatives.
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
Production Manager employer: Sealed Air Corporation
Sealed Air is an exceptional employer that champions a high-performance growth culture, prioritising accountability and rewarding impactful business outcomes. With a commitment to employee development and a focus on sustainability, the company offers a dynamic work environment where innovative marketing professionals can thrive and contribute to meaningful packaging solutions across the EMEA region. Join us to be part of a diverse team dedicated to creating a safer, more resilient global supply chain.
