Production Manager

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

12/17/2024

About Ardagh Metal Packaging

Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) is a leading supplier of sustainable, infinitely recyclable metal beverage cans to brand owners globally. An operating business of sustainable packaging business Ardagh Group, AMP is a leading industry player across Europe and the Americas, with innovative production capabilities, 23 production facilities, more than 6,000 employees and recorded revenues of $4.8 billion in 2023.

AMP is 76%-owned by Ardagh Group and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMBP.

About Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group is a global supplier of infinitely recyclable metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for brand owners around the world. We have grown to a team of approximately 20,000 people with revenues of more than $9 billion. Today we have a presence across the Americas, Europe and Africa.

• Ardagh produces many of the beverage cans and bottles that contain your favourite beverages.
• Our packaging is manufactured from metal and glass - permanent materials that can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality.
• Ardagh produces more than 60 billion containers per year (more than 160 million containers per day).
  
  

The future we’re creating for Ardagh is built around our four Core Values of Inclusion, Trust, Teamwork and Excellence. We offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for talented and creative people. If you have ambition and want to make an impact with your career, come and join our team - you’ll enjoy the journey!

Main Purpose Of The Position:

Reporting to the Plant Manager you will work as part of the Rugby Senior Management Team with overall responsibility for Production supporting your five Shift Managers and their direct reports (Process Leaders, Shift Technicians and Opera-tors)

Responsible for creating a safe collaborative working environment, maintaining, and further developing the plant produc-tion facility whilst ensuring the quality of all manufactured products is in accordance with agreed company / customers specifications.

Key Objectives:

SAFETY

• Manage, monitor and implement Environmental, Health and Safety procedures to ensure a safe working environ-ment for everyone
• Ensure hygiene and housekeeping standards are owned, maintained and to drive continuous improvement of these standards
  
  

Quality

• Own, lead and direct plant operational teams to ensure compliance with process and product specifications
• Ensure process and procedures are implemented to maintain and continuously improve quality via your teams
• Effectively use SPC data to drive and implement quality decisions and improvements
• Establish root cause of non-compliances and ensure sustainable preventative measures are implemented
• Establish and develop effective working relationships with all plant customers both internal and external
  
  

People

• To be an inspirational leader and role model for the company values and behaviours for your team
• To coach and develop your team to achieve and deliver clear accountabilities and responsibilities to maximise the ownership of the resources of your teams to achieve great results
• Implement the structures and process to consistently deliver ownership of results
• Provide clear direction and the road map to achieve the individual and company results
• Ensure the personal development of the teams are optimised to deliver safety, quality, delivery and costs and the individual skills matrix is maintained and balanced
• Drive a continuous learning environment within the plant which provides employees with the skills, knowledge and capability to enhance their potential within the business
• Support a training and learning environment within the plant which provides employees with the skills, knowledge and capability to enhance their performance and realise their potential
  
  

Delivery

• Provide the leadership, direction and judgement to enable the production teams to deliver the volumes of quality products whilst exceeding customer expectations
• Create a high performance environment to deliver the planned volumes
• Manage your teams to deliver the maintenance plan to minimise downtime and achieve the output quality and sus-tainable results
• Maximise the flexibility of resources to achieve the volume output whilst focused on customer requirements
• Always identify continuous improvement opportunities and implement sustainable solution to exceed KPIs
  
  

Costs

• Closely manage and implement processes and procedure to know your numbers and control your costs
• Ensure individuals are accountable and responsible for tight cost controls
  
  

Scope Of Position:

Budgets Responsible for: Plant budget associated with production/operations.

Contacts within Ardagh: Plant Management team, Senior Management team,

Contacts outside of the Company: Suppliers and Contractors, Ardagh Trading LRD, Principal

Qualifications:

Professional Requirements:

IMQA desirable

• Engineering qualification (time served or degree), Lean belt training
• SPC
• Lean manufacturing
  
  

Languages: English (verbal and written)

Computer Skills: To be fully competent to use all Microsoft Packages, SAP, WinCC, Ignition and Infinity.

Previous Job / Project Experience:

• At least 5+ years operating at a senior level as part of the plant senior leadership team -gained in a “hands-on” ap-proach
• Managed high speed, complex, fast paced continuous production lines in the FMCG or automotive business sector
• Recognised engineering and continuous improvement qualification, Lean, SMED, Greenbelt
• Experience in managing and implementing large scale change
  
  

Competencies

• Motivational and engaging
• Positive can-do with sense of urgency
• Results orientated
• Can-do attitude
• Drive and resilience
• Advanced Technical and problem solving skills
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Ability to deliver sustainable solutions
• Customer Focus
• Strong Leadership of a team and delegation of responsibility without loss of accountability to achieve great results
• Being able to connect with people to deliver great results
• Drive for results
• Create a high-performance culture
• Excellent communicative skills, written and verbal to engage your teams whilst being equally effective at influencing and updating senior leaders within the business
• Using strong analysis of data and continuous improvement skills to drive results
• Implementation of sustainable solutions
• Sense of urgency
• Ownership
• Resilience
• Knowing your numbers and be able to demonstrate a strong knowledge of the KPIs and budgets pertinent to plant performance at all levels
• Flexibility to work out of normal working hours/work nights as required to build and maintain relationships and communication with shift teams.
  
  

Company Values Trust is earned by displaying personal attributes that show we are respectful, reliable, consistent and honest in our approach to others. It is built on mutual respect, personal integrity and transparency.

Teamwork is achieved with collaboration and open communication. Effective teamwork ensures we interact with colleagues in a mutually beneficial way and is important to building a strong business. Teams should be mindful of the impact their decisions have on other teams, and ultimately the business.

Excellence is constantly striving to improve ourselves and the business. It focuses on continuous improvement, innovation and sustainability

Inclusion ensures we are mindful of others, inviting contributions from everyone and valu-ing our diversity of thought. We all need to be comfortable and confident to be ourselves while at work.

About Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group is a global supplier of infinitely recyclable metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for brand owners around the world. We have grown to a team of approximately 20,000 people with revenues of more than $9 billion. Today we have a presence across the Americas, Europe and Africa.

• Ardagh produces many of the beverage cans and bottles that contain your favourite beverages.
• Our packaging is manufactured from metal and glass - permanent materials that can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality.
• Ardagh produces more than 60 billion containers per year (more than 160 million containers per day).
  
  

The future we’re creating for Ardagh is built around our four Core Values of Inclusion, Trust, Teamwork and Excellence. We offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for talented and creative people. If you have ambition and want to make an impact with your career, come and join our team - you’ll enjoy the journey!