Production Manager

**Position description**:
Reporting directly to the Plant Production Manager, your role consists to identify and implement action plans to achieve the safety, quality, productivity and turnaround goals of the paper machine for which you are responsible.

As experienced manager, your authority of competence combined with your leadership enables you to engage your team, develop employees’ skills, manage the production in your technical scope of responsibilities, find and implement effective solutions in case of malfunctions.

**Main responsibilities**:

- Implement the machine production plan and provide the necessary optimizations.
- Contribute to the development of papers to meet customer requirements (innovation and diversification projects of paper types produced on the machine)
- Propose improvements in safety, quality, productivity (waste and downtime), waste reduction and water consumption
- Follow up and analyze production performance and implement corrective actions
- Organize, coordinate and control production
- Define needs and monitor maintenance work
- Establish production reports
- Support investment choice to improve machine safety, quality and performance
- Lead improvement plans and facilitate project monitoring meetings
- Coach, lead and engage a team of approximately 40 people
- Ensure efficient communication between operational teams and Management
- Set individual goals and assess staff on achievement of goals
- Secure transfer of knowledge and expertise, managing and anticipating departures, and developing individual skills

**Profile and qualifications**:

- Graduated Engineer from Paper Engineering school, or other engineering schools with experience in paper industry.
- At least 5 years of significant production team management experience and technical experience, ideally in technical or coated papers.
- As a field manager, your actions are guided by your strong values of commitment, integrity and trust.
- Passionate about production and its tools, you like to develop, grow your employees, advance processes and projects.
- Proposal force within the Production leadership team and your peers, you know how to support change and change mindsets.
- Strong operational and managerial involvement to prioritize safety without compromise.
- Analytical skills and innovation mindset, power of proposal to advance the machine technically.
- A manager who listens to your teams, your ability to understand, adapt and communicate helps you to get your employees involved in improvement projects and practice changes.
- Interest in the production of technical products and ability to integrate into operational teams with strong technical components.
- Flexible and adaptable, you can also show authority to your teams when necessary.
- French mother tongue with good practice of English (professional and technical) for effective communication in an international environment.

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