Avery Dennison

Company Description

Avery Dennison is Everywhere You Look. Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company’s products, which are used in nearly every major industry, including pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. Headquartered in Glendale, California, the company employs approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2021 were $8.4 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com. 

Job Description

Job overview:

This position provides leadership and production management on shift basis to ensure world-class manufacturing principles are followed as well as production practices/KPIs are maintained and improved. This position will interact pro-actively with leadership team and implement all requirements down to shop floor. The incumbent is expected to actively participate in the benchmarking and sharing best practices among the Production Department in order to continuously improve the product supply capability. 

Key responsibilities:

• Directly supervises employees in a Site. Monitors work, alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions, controls load factors and flow of work to ensure maximum use of available capacity and effective use of labor, tools and equipment. 
• Design and implement operations improvement strategies for safety, cost, quality, training, inventory, and services.
• Analyze and draw information for daily operational needs and improvement for the team. Provide prompt problem solving for key issues.
• Supervise to ensure all safety practices and 5S are followed by all staff (especially good house-keeping, logout/Tagout, PPE, hazard & near-miss reporting, accident/incident reporting..).
• Lead 5S activities, housekeeping, and recycling programs. Lead the efforts to create a safety-conscious environment; be actively involved in safety initiatives. Lead monthly safety meetings and daily safety huddles.
• Ensure quality practices on-line are followed (from handling, loading to machine and using raw materials to on-line testing during production). Maintain quality control processes to ensure products/services meet quality standards; lead implementation of process improvements. 
• Ensure maximum output and minimum scrap in the shift.
• Collaborate with other functional areas to resolve problems and develop improved manufacturing processes. Make efforts to reduce manufacturing scrap and process complexity.
• Ensure AM practices are complied by staffs
• Responsible for key operational measures within business unit (service, quality, productivity, cost, safety). Drive improvement strategies in all key metric areas; manage production flow, staffing schedule and resources to budget and plan.
• Cultivates and reinforces appropriate group values, norms, and behaviors. Identifies and analyzes problems, plans, tasks, and solutions. 
• Represents the team, presenting team suggestions and recommendations on processes and procedures in accordance with organization cost, quality, and productivity goals. 
• Maintain quality control processes to ensure products/services meet quality standards; lead implementation of process improvements. Drive improvement strategies in all key metric areas; manage production flow, staffing schedule and resources to budget and plan.
• Ensure best practices and standard operating procedures are being followed by conducting frequent business audits.
• Make plan to Implement and monitor programmes/ best practices for improving safety, quality, Maintenance, Grade Change Effectiveness, production output… on the dedicated assets
• Lead improvement projects as specified.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or above; Major in printing engineering, packaging or related
• 5+ years of Operational experience with team leader experience preferred.
• Strong leadership quality in accordance with Avery Dennison’s Leadership Principles.
• Inter-functional Business understanding and knowledge, Business Intuition (in production aspects).
• Special Skill: Knowledge and experiences in Enterprise Lean Sigma is very preferred.
• Technical Skill: Engineering/process knowledge on garment production, weaving or printing operations is preferred.
• Fluent in English is very preferred.

Additional Information

AVERY DENNISON IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other protected status.