Job Description

Main Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in health and safety and compliance with environmental standards by acting as a model of responsible behavior;
• Promote safe practices, identify risks associated with tasks, eliminate or control them in order to provide an accident/incident free environment;
• Work closely with Converting Asset Leader on line priorities;
• Participate in management meetings (daily, weekly and monthly) to help implement and maintain the principles of operational excellence;
• Define standard operating procedures (line centers) for all equipment, ensure that they are optimized, available, communicated and used at all times;
• Train and coach operators in best practices for line centers, eliminate inconsistencies;
• Work with production planners to optimize product changes, testing or any other element that could impact the operation;
• Plan, organize, optimize and support grade changes;
• Analyze the root causes of equipment failures and implement corrective actions to reduce or eliminate unplanned downtime;
• Analyze data on variations in the quality of finished product and manage an action plan to continuously achieve optimal product quality;
• Identify the sources of waste or rejection of operation to improve our material performance and aim to reach technical limits;
• Work with raw material suppliers (internal and external) to optimize and stabilize operating results;
• Identify and manage line faults by prioritizing and planning interventions with technical resources;
• Collaborate closely in the planning of preventive/predictive maintenance and its improvement;
• Manage and prioritize, with his team, the processing of work orders;
• Communicate with equipment suppliers/vendors regarding any technical issues;
• Support activities related to research and product development and supervise testing;
• Support and/or initiate process improvement projects, technical improvements, design of parts and machines, etc.;
• Share best practices with other converting managers and production teams;
• Any other related tasks;