Production Facility Manager

The Production Facility Manager plays a key role in providing daily leadership to 1 of our 11 Vestcom Production Facilities across the U.S. Vestcom is a standalone business unit of Avery Dennison, a Fortune 500 leader in materials science and packaging materials.  Learn more at www.vestcom.com.

The Production Facility Manager works autonomously, regularly exercising independent judgment and discretion with limited supervision.  The incumbent must display strong leadership acumen to successfully lead and develop a manufacturing team of ~130 employees, achieve SLA commitments, and deliver high-quality results to customers.  The Production Facility Manager is the primary point of contact for all site activities.

►   Key Areas of Responsibility

This role is responsible for managing and coordinating the daily operational functions for the assigned Vestcom production facility. Works closely with Vestcom's client experience/delivery specialists, IT/data center, creative services, HR, and Finance.

• Ensures all quality measurement, on-time and in full deliveries are maintained while supporting our safety and health standards

• Builds relationship with organization by supporting, coaching, and developing employees to foster a high performing, engaged organization 

• Manages facility with mindset of continuous improvement, using data driven approach for labor productivity/scheduling, capacity utilization, cost, and inventory management

• Fosters an environment of respect, open communication, and ongoing feedback across the site

• Establishes annual goals, objectives, and development plans for direct reports

• Communicates effectively, plans, organizes, and manages multiple projects/commitments in a timely manner

• Evaluates and independently determines when to elevate concerns and provides recommended resolutions to Vestcom management in a timely manner.

• Manages facility staffing, hiring, and temp agency utilization in partnership with Human Resources

• Partners with Director to set and steward annual budget for facility in support of company goals

• Oversees facility and machine maintenance needs

• Ensures all safety requirements/processes and company policies are upheld 

• Measures performance against process requirements, service level agreements and/or quality goals.