Manager - 19

Inspired to grow with your experience, learn and share with new colleagues? Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver. Job Summary Use extensive product and process knowledge to solve complex technical issues. Must be capable of understanding and providing meaningful feedback and direction to employees that are working on technical projects. Knowledge of material sciences and impact on processing equipment. Possess a working knowledge of the various resins in the market including those being developed today (compostable, PCR, biodegradable) and how that will interact with existing installed equipment base. Develop and innovate alternative processing paths. Support of sales, marketing, and manufacturing in the development of new plastic products (existing and alternative resins) along with associated equipment. Sales are supported by review of new potential products by supplying product and equipment quotes. Marketing is supported by supplying concepts and designs for new plastic products. Manufacturing is supported by supplying detailed support of CEP’s, equipment selection, and line layouts for new and existing plastic products. Manage project resources, budgets, project timelines and customer expectations. Expedite what is needed to get the project done on time, on budget. Anticipate delays or potential technical problems. Develop and implement contingencies as needed and direct team and the organization to resolve problems and complete projects. Coordinate resources, evaluates individual project status and assure that team stays on schedule and is going down the right path. Essential Functions Manage machine shops and engineering design group. , Supports business project requests/quotes, supports Manage engineering design group, manages CAD selection and updates purchases of new and replacement injection molding and thermoforming tooling. Understand and manipulate the use of materials (traditional and alternative resins in packaging construction. Materials include paper and laminated paperboard, films, thermoform and injection molded plastics. Identify and qualify alternate or new materials for existing and new product applications such as biodegradable, compostable and PCR resins. Responsible for managing material qualification process (MQ) to qualify new materials. Lead the overall MQ process, facilitate MQ project activity between T&D and the cross functional teams including operations, sales, and supply chain. Maintain status updates on all ongoing MQ activity and assist in presenting monthly status updates. Stay on trend of fast changing sustainable (alternative) material developments. Investigate and vet new trial materials candidates. Commission trial activities through external and/or internal resources. Oversee and manage the lab technicians. The analytical test and analysis on the physical properties of the finished plastic products. Perform competitive analysis DOE experiments, root cause analysis and other analysis to support WCO activity. Maintain a fundamental understanding of tests conducted in the lab. Data generated in the lab is used in the decision or problem-solving process, root cause analysis, etc. Manage the creation of new and unique test procedures to identify characteristics within materials or packaging systems that can influence the performance outcome. Assure that all packaging produced meets federal, state, and customer standards. Research federal regulations. Be the plastics product steward within the department and support the stewardship process through lab testing and other means necessary. Maintain all product and material specifications database. Maintain and administer the official product drawings within the CAD directory and maintain accuracy and security of all Huhtamaki product drawings. Advise legal counsel of what patents to renew or discontinue. Review and submit new provisional and non-provisional applications with legal, create art, claims, and teach advantages of the invention. Review and approve the final patent applications. Review and advise legal/ Intellectual property departments on competitive patents Job Qualifications Required Strong project management skills with the ability to lead a team of internal and external resources. Multitasks, prioritizes, and meet deadlines in a timely manner. Strong organizational and follow up skills, along with exception communication skills. Ability to lead a team and set expectations, delegate tasks, and keep the team focused through positive influence to achieve strategy objectives. Understand the interaction of chemicals and general contaminates to enter transfer or migrate into on or through packaging materials. Learn and apply reasonable expertise in FDA and EU compliance. Possess a fundamental understanding of physics, chemistry, mathematics, statistical process analysis, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. Apply analytical methods and deductive reasoning to discover root cause of product performance issues. Lead plastic Innovation team of ~ 8 salary and ~ hourly Develop talent that support our strategy Preferred Experience with injection molding processes and ability to detail product and tool design. Experience in thermoforming process and ability to detail product and tool design. Experience with plastics resin characteristics with application usage with LLDPE, LDPE, HDPE, PP, PS, and K-resin, compostable, and bio-degradable materials. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Bachelors in chemical, Mechanical, or Plastics Engineering. 10 years of experience in plastics manufacturing, injection molding and thermoforming Join us to shape the future together! We are global specialists in packaging for food and drink, dedicated to making every consumer experience enjoyable, consistent, and safe. We understand that packaging is about so much more than just what goes round a product. It's about building brands, protecting reputation, and opening up new opportunities in new markets. We have 78 manufacturing units in 34 countries with approximately 18,000 employees dedicated to supporting our customers' growth.