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. 

The Plant Manager in Pittsfield, MA, provides leadership and management direction to mill operations to ensure achievement of all applicable business unit objectives while conforming to established policies, procedures, guidelines, budgets, and/or specifications, as well as all applicable local, state, and federal codes and laws.  The incumbent works with other business unit leaders to influence decisions to positively affect the overall optimization of operations.

Responsibilities

Safety Leadership

• Exercise personal leadership to provide 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.
• Lead the development of effective safety programs and eliminate non-value-added safety activities.

Achieve long-term manufacturing advantage for the business

• Maintain an effective Quality management process that will ensure conformance to all customer requirements.
• Deliver consistent product quality that meets customer expectations.
• Develop and implement continuing cost improvement plans and programs that ensure continuity or a competitive and profitable manufacturing facility.
• Support business platforms for brand positioning, product development, supply chain capabilities and customer service.
• Develop and maintain initiatives to ensure long-term reliability of the plant, property, and equipment.
• Maintain high levels of housekeeping and sanitation.
• Ensure Corporate Financial controls are established and followed.

Manage capital spending to sustain operations, support strategic initiatives, and reduce costs while meeting financial expectations 

• Facilitate evaluation of capital project feasibility and value with a priority on projects that reduce cost.
• Minimize sustaining capital projects without compromising facility reliability, effectiveness, and appearance.
• Drive non-value-added cost out of capital project proposals.

Direct site environmental activities to achieve corporate and business expectations

• Ensure compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal codes and laws.
• Support marketing efforts to develop an environmental message and advantage.
• Support the continuous improvement of the Environmental Management System

Team Development

• Lead efforts to move towards a culture of high achievement and support culture.
• Establish and maintain an optimum mill organization to ensure that the mill is adequately staffed with qualified, trained, and motivated people to meet current and future requirements.
• Ensure the development of all employees to the maximum of their potential.
• Develop succession plans to ensure bench strength.
• Maintain a positive employee relations climate to maintain non-union status

Community Relations

• Positively and responsibly represent Mativ in the local community. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a 4-year degree in a related discipline, an MBA is a plus.
• 7+ years’ experience in a leadership role in manufacturing management, preferably in paper-based industry or another continuous process-oriented operation.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Mativ, our benefits reflect how much we value and care for each other. We know that employees and their families have unique needs, so our comprehensive benefits offer flexibility, quality, and affordability. Here are just a few of the ways we support your well-being and that of your loved ones:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP)
• Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
• Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance
• The annual salary range for this position is $126,000 - $164,000.  This role is also short-term incentive plan eligible.

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.