Manufacturing Engineer

Position Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer

BG and BU: Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East & Africa (AFEMEA) / Meat, Fresh, Dairy & SA

Function: Operations

Location: AF Swansea

Line Manager’s Job Title: Production Manager

Advertising Legal Entity: Amcor Flexibles Swansea

Contract Length: Permanent Contract

Job Purpose

To provide leadership and active participation in the reduction of costs, improvement of process, management of capital projects and resources connected to process improvement at the site. Reporting directly to the Production Manager, the Manufacturing Engineer will focus heavily on waste improvement and other large opportunities to ensure delivery of the annual budget, with an aggressive cost take out agenda while deploying technical support to operations as required.

Principal Accountabilities

• Ensure OHSE policy adherence and drive improvement to enhance safe operations on site
• Provide daily technical support for all production areas as required for efficient operation, specific focus on waste and quality.
• Lead capital expense projects; opportunity identification, TRACE submission and project management through final installation and start-up
• Support function for maintenance and production teams
• Contractor control ensuring safe working procedures and adherence to Amcor policies
• Contribute to & implement to the strategic plan for the business
• Sustainably embed the Amcor Flexibles Production System (AFPS) including KPIs, standards and process best practices
• Coordination and collaboration activities with central teams on transformation work
• Diagnose key improvement opportunities and set aspirational improvement targets
• Establish annual targets and priorities around cost removal and plan
• Implement site production improvement programme; project selection, pillar development, daily control and all associated activities
• Report outs of savings associated with waste and cost removal to internal and external stakeholders

MAJOR CHALLENGES & COMPLEXITIES

• Driving a change agenda which is new, in a new role, and which comes with high aspirations and expectations
• Shifting focus to large opportunity areas for cost out; such as extrusion waste, energy savings and other
• Balancing the diverse demands of Manufacturing Engineer, supporting production, project management and driving out cost; including local and central priorities
• Moving the needle fast in an environment where ways of working are established, and business performance is regarded as successful

Qualifications/Requirements

1. Formal Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in a science, technology or engineering subject required
• Experience in a fast-paced operations environment with a strong focus towards operational excellence
• 5+ years manufacturing, engineering, and process efforts
• 5+ years participation in process improvement / manufacturing engineering
• Large capital expense project management capabilities
• Manufacturing Engineering (Standard Operations, plant layout, waste elimination, continuous improvement, engineering change control, PFMEA, SPC, process capability, value stream mapping)

2.  Specific Skills and Abilities

• Strong problem-solving skills (containment & countermeasure)
• Ability to analyse data and communicate results clearly
• Advanced excel capabilities
• Hands-on technical skill
• Project management and extremely high level of organisation
• Communication, influencing, negotiating and assertiveness
• Deep understanding of technical manufacturing
• Decision making, sound business judgement
• Report writing & presentation skills

3. Amcor Leadership Framework

The 3 Leadership competencies which will apply to all AFEMEA employees:

• Driving for Results
• Command Skills
• Customer Focus

The Leadership competencies which will apply to the Operations Function:

• Business Acumen
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Priority Setting