Production Manager

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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 delivers consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerates our performance. The culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, attract and retain top talent, and create value for our stakeholders.

The Production Manager is responsible for Plant Operations (Safety, Service, Quality, Cost, and Productivity). This includes planning and executing the production schedule on time, achieving performance KPIs and targets, addressing challenges that affect sustained performance, assigning resources as needed, and reporting performance and issues in daily integration/tier meetings. The Production Manager champions problem‑solving and continuous improvement.

• Accountable for safety, quality, and productivity KPIs in their area. The Production Manager and Maintenance leadership partner to improve and sustain autonomous and preventive maintenance by operators.
• Manage safety and quality expectations at the site level with all employees.
• Manage all aspects of the Performance Management System.
• Lead the Departments including Safety, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance representation, and ensure that performance KPIs are updated. DI updates and performance KPIs are critical for reporting the shift’s performance daily.
• Create a daily plan based on the output of the daily review, integration, and daily schedule of meetings.
• Support problem‑solving activities related to safety, quality, service, and performance on the plant floor.
• Responsible for administering disciplinary action, in conjunction with appropriate levels of management and HR.
• Provide support for all continuous improvement efforts which include implementation of new standards, procedures, and improvements. Coach lean fundamentals with production team members, including Daily Gemba walks, Behavior‑Based Safety Observations, Quality Behavior Observations, and Tier 2 meetings.
• Assign work to staff, provide coaching and training, set goals, evaluate performance, plan staff development, and make and approve people‑management decisions alone or in collaboration with management and HR (including recruitment, promotions, terminations, and compensation).
• Interact internally with assemblers, production operators, team performance leaders, engineers, maintenance personnel, and logistics teams.
• Support Personnel (i.e., Operations, Production Control, Training, Human Resources, Accounting/Finance, Quality, etc.).

• BS degree in engineering or a technical degree is required.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant manufacturing experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in a production environment, in a supervisory role.

• Green Belt Certification preferred.
• High degree of analysis, problem‑solving, and creativity. Specifically, 5‑Why improvement.
• Able to work both independently and within a team, generating results with general/minimal guidance from management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with professional presentation and negotiation skills.
• Good understanding of Lean Manufacturing principles.
• Experience with high‑volume operations.
• Must believe that a clean, organized work environment is safer and more productive.
• Must be able to prioritize and organize requests from a project perspective. Must be able to multi‑task.
• Effective use of technology to accomplish objectives (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Teams, SAP, Business Objects, etc.).
• Good financial acumen.
• Approximately 75% of the day will be on the production floor, coaching and mentoring employees.
• Could sit for periods of up to 4 hours at a time. Must be able to lift up to 45 pounds occasionally.

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.