Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that connect, protect, and purify our world. 

Provide asset leadership and direction at the Neenah Converting Center to achieve targeted department and facility objectives.  Priority focus on the safety and value of employees, while driving continual improvement in customer quality, asset efficiency, and cost management. 

Responsibilities:

Safety, Quality and Regulatory Compliance

• Provide leadership for site wide safety efforts to reduce accidents/incidents to achieve a 0 OSHA recordable rate.
• Exercise personal leadership to support an environment that puts a priority on providing a safe and healthy workplace for employees and conforms to applicable local, state, and federal codes and laws governing loss control.
• Support and promote all safety efforts to reduce accidents/incidents.
• Provide leadership to meet or exceed the Quality management goals that will ensure conformance to all customer requirements and quality standards.

Optimize our Cost Structure

• Achieve short- and long-term cost and performance advantage for the Neenah Converting Center (NCC) Retail Department.
• Set aggressive and realistic goals for asset R/O, Yield, and Uptime and reinforce continuous improvement.
• Work closely with the Converting Center Manager, Finance Team and Continuous Improvement Leader in driving the development of a clear and comprehensive manufacturing cost reduction strategy.
• Relentlessly pursue lowest total manufacturing cost solutions by understanding key drivers, identifying improvement opportunities, and implementing applicable cost reduction solutions.
• Implement processes and initiatives aimed at increasing employee involvement and ownership, while promoting continuous improvement.
• Manage raw material inventors to levels to reduce cost without negatively affecting efficiencies.
• Relentlessly pursue the reduction of operating costs & maximum operating flexibility while maintaining a bias towards quality leadership.
• Position our assets to support growth initiatives through optimal balance of sustaining, cost saving and strategic capital spending. Assets (materials/inventories, equipment, personnel) properly managed, maintained and developed.
• Support Continuous Improvement Initiatives.

Lead Converting improvement activities & capability development

• Work closely with Planning and Customer Service on developing an asset utilization strategy that promotes efficiency and cost effectiveness without jeopardizing service.
• Clarify accountabilities and measure progress to drive greater employee ownership and improved operational performance.
• Maintain high levels of housekeeping and sanitation.

Lead organizational development by enhancing culture and developing talent.

• Show definitive leadership in the development of employee skills and talents.
• Drive hourly employee development and engagement in key initiatives.
• Manage all corrective and disciplinary issues with consistency and fairness.
• Communicate frequently and effectively with all employees, ensuring understanding of results, goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Ensure line-of-sight to site objectives and targets.
• Establish and maintain a sound working environment that encourages involvement and ownership, while maintaining motivation and enthusiasm.
• Drive culture improvement by visibly aligning expectations with strategy and publicly supporting our team’s improvement efforts, while ensuring consistent accountability for results, objectives, and expectations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, paper science or related field is desired.
• Prior related experience in a process-oriented manufacturing environment and continuous improvement processes will be considered.
• A demonstrated track record of proven performance and ability to lead teams.
• Experience with customer interactions; ideally collaborating with others to help define needs, identify solutions and resolve problems.
• Enjoys working with and collaborating with members of operations and at all levels throughout the organization.

WHAT WE OFFER

Mativ benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, competitive in the marketplace, and affordable.

ABOUT MATIV

Mativ Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The company connects, protects, and purifies the world every day through a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We manufacture on three continents and generate sales in nearly 100 countries through our family of business-to-business and consumer product brands. The company’s two segments, Filtration & Advanced Materials and Sustainable & Adhesive Solutions, target premium applications across diversified and growing end-markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging and more. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers’ products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.