Manager Back End & Auxiliaries

Overview

Manager Back End & Auxiliaries, Ardagh Metal Packaging Europe (m/f/d) in any Ardagh Metal plant in Europe

Key Responsibilities

• Leading Back End Team in the Engineering department.
• Member of the Engineering Management Team.
• Help implement the objectives and strategy of the Manufacturing Engineering Organization.
• Head of the Back End Department; lead, promote and motivate subordinate employees, continuously develop their abilities, assist in HR measures
• Identify training needs and devellopment opportunities according to the company future needs
• Ensure successful project management in case of Major Projects and smaller Process Improvement Projects in the field of responsibility.
• Responsible for the safety of the installed equipment, regarding legislation, norm or other regulations (e.g. CE-conformity).
• Maintain To do list to ensure efficient information flow within group and AMP-E can plants and to support continuous improvement
• Ensure continuous process improvement of Back End processes
• Define, Implement and Secure AMP-E Manufacturing standards.
• Support Technical managers of AMPE plants to define and prepare CAPEX.
• Assist in efficiency studies and cost reduction programmes
• Integrate technology and new development outflow into the manufacturing system, liaise with PotF where applicable
• Act as main contact for the functional business units and their process owners for all relevant topics such as application support, change requests, enhancement and new process requirements.
• Work proactively on Continuous Improvement and apply Lessons learnt to subsequent projects
• Lead and assist projects of various sizes, containing internal as well as external or internal global team members.
• Work with and guide external consultants in support cases and projects while ensuring “best cost value” for the Group.
• Work closely together with IT Application to integrate Business and Process functions, providing interope-rability between multiple IT systems where needed.
• Monitor and control outsourced Application Support Services in co-operation with the ERP AMPS team

Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or comparable
• Fluent English, other European Languages are advantageous
• MS Office
• > 10 years Manufacturing experience in the Can Business. (Plant Level and wide Leadership experience)
• International Project Experience
• Soft skills: resilience, stress management, communication, reflexion, teamplayer, leadership

About Ardagh Metal Packaging

Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) is a leading supplier of sustainable, infinitely recyclable metal beverage cans to brand owners globally. An operating business of sustainable packaging business Ardagh Group, AMP is a leading industry player across Europe and the Americas, with innovative production capabilities, 23 production facilities, more than 6,000 employees and recorded revenues of $4.8 billion in 2023.

AMP is 76%-owned by Ardagh Group and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMBP.

About Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group is a global supplier of infinitely recyclable metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for brand owners around the world. We have grown to a team of approximately 20,000 people with revenues of more than $9 billion. Today we have a presence across the Americas, Europe and Africa.

• Ardagh produces many of the beverage cans and bottles that contain your favourite beverages.
• Our packaging is manufactured from metal and glass - permanent materials that can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality.
• Ardagh produces more than 60 billion containers per year (more than 160 million containers per day).