Cutting Manager

Graphic Packaging•Elk Grove, CA

About The Position

The Cutting Manager provides leadership, guidance, direction, and management for the Cutting Department across shift operations. The role ensures production safety, quality, and customer satisfaction goals are met, initiates and supports department processes, and ensures compliance with Six Sigma efforts. Minimal supervision is required. The manager oversees sheet-fed line operations, rotary die cutting, and rotary die sharpening, ensuring paperboard is sheeted, printed, and cut to specifications and that rotary dies perform as expected. The role plans and manages operations in alignment with plant and division objectives, identifies cost-reduction and continuous-improvement opportunities, supports capital improvement projects, and coordinates department work across shifts and with other departments. The manager also establishes goals for safety, quality, productivity, and employee development, and ensures safe, clean, and legally compliant production operations. The position includes responsibilities for following Safe Quality Food (SQF) procedures, reporting potentially unsafe food conditions or customer complaints, and participating in root-cause and corrective-action activities as required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or related field, with 5–8 years of experience in converting operations and working with dies, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage projects, resources, and people and to set and meet target disciplines.
Ability to develop improvements and achieve budget and cost constraints.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, and the internet.

Nice To Haves

Supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

Manage sheet-fed line, rotary die cutting, and rotary die sharpening operations.
Ensure paperboard is sheeted, printed, and cut to specifications and rotary dies perform to expectations.
Plan, direct, and manage operations to achieve operating goals consistent with plant and division objectives.
Identify cost-reduction and continuous-improvement opportunities in support of Six Sigma efforts.
Identify capital improvement projects and provide project management support.
Manage department efforts across shifts and coordinate with other departments and functions.
Establish department goals for safety, quality, productivity, and employee development.
Ensure production operations are conducted in a safe and clean working environment and comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing processes and control department costs.
Follow plant rules and procedures, including hygiene and allergen procedures related to producing Safe Quality Foods.
Report potentially unsafe SQF conditions or customer complaints to a person of authority for recording and/or correction.
Participate in SQF root-cause and corrective-action activities as required.