Direct of Operations Packaging Experience

We are hiring a Director of Operations to join our team! At Coastal we aim to recruit and retain smart, inquisitive people fueled by the same entrepreneurial spirit that drives us. It’s how we deliver on the promises we make to customers, and to each other. In the position you will Serve customers with industry-leading quality and delivery performance. Serve employees by creating a safe and high performance culture, ensure great leadership and effective processes in all functions. Serve the business with strong quality system discipline, consistent operational results and year-over-year improvements in productivity. Key measures include, OSHA Incident Rate, customer complaints, yield, scrap, labor efficiency, productivity, capacity utilization and on-time delivery.

Coastal Container is a locally-owned and headquartered in West Michigan, Coastal Container is a full-service packaging company supplying businesses with on-time delivery, durable, cost-effective packaging products and innovative services. With decades of experience, our customers know us for getting things done right.

Benefits We Offer:

Comprehensive Benefits Package to include medical, dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employer 401K Match, Training, paid vacation and holidays.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelors in Engineering or operations
• Experience: 10 years in operations leadership in sheet converting plant.

Experience Requirements

· Experience in corrugated paper or packaging highly preferred

· Experience in a manufacturing environment required

· Operational Planning: Improve plant productivity by analyzing the value stream and targeting measurable improvement in cycle-times, labor efficiency, quality, yield, equipment utilization, etc.

· Lead Plant Safety initiatives: injury prevention, investigation, safety programs

· Operational Performance: Deliver daily, weekly and monthly performance across all key measures. Provide detailed analysis and countermeasures for variances to plan. Evaluate work order performance, identify underperforming jobs, and take action to improve contribution margin when possible.

· Workforce Planning: Maintain appropriate level of staff support necessary to meet business and budgetary goals and objectives. In times of variance, quickly develop plans and action plans to remedy the situation.

· Workforce Development: Develop plans to develop deep competency in converting, printing, logistics and inventory management. Identify long-term staffing needs and implement training and apprenticeship programs to prepare people for future opportunities.

· Supply Chain Management: Lead the Planning and Scheduling team and ensure robust inventory management, scheduling, and material handling systems. Develop a cost-efficient transportation system. Ensure compliance with all DOT and other regulatory requirements. Work with paperboard supplier partners to ensure cost leadership on raw material costs.

· Facilities and Maintenance: Lead the Maintenance team and ensure the safe and efficient utilization of the building and all equipment. Enforces building security, PM schedules and process engineering standards. Drive projects to improve equipment reliability and performance.

· Quality Management: Drive discipline and improvements to the Quality Management System. Ensure robust documentation of all procedures and essential work instructions.

· Budgeting and Financial Management: Support the budgeting process by translating forecasted demand into accurate labor budgets and capacity plans. Develop annual capital budget and financial justification for capital investments.

· Team Leadership: Establish meeting rhythm to coordinate activities with the plant leadership team. Establish effective processes for measuring operational performance and the impact of strategic initiatives.

· ERP System: Develop deep expertise in Amtech management software. Drive standards and educate others to help optimize the utility of the system. Ensure best practices and standards are documented.

Coastal is an equal employment opportunity employer such that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.