Plant Manager

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

Main Purpose:-

• Put in place procedures, policies and SOP’s.
• Drive HSE implementation to meet both Orbia and local requirements
• Manage, monitor, guide, and review manufacturing, to ensure that they are up to Wavin’s quality and efficiency standards.
• Management of site manufacturing, technical and engineering operations in accordance with set Company objectives, ensuring the application of world-class H&S standards.
• Optimize OPEX, Maximize operational efficiencies within labour/materials/energy cost standards to planned output and in accordance with agreed specifications.
• Take actions to reach targeted conversion costs
• Conceptualize the improvement in productivity, quality, reliability, yield and cost efficiency in overall plant operations. Drive actions to meet required KPI’s put in place
• Drive, deliver and monitor Continuous Improvement initiatives in line with business strategy and objectives.

Job Responsibilities:-

• Plan and monitor the day-to-day running of the business to ensure smooth progress
• Regularly evaluate the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements
• Work on succession planning of the workforce, appraise the member’s performance & provide feedback.
• Coordinate material and resources allocation in line with Bom definitions to keep variances low
• Manage relationships/agreements with external partners/vendors
• Ensure excellent country-wide management of HSE activities, with the focus on ‘zero accidents’: safeguarding, as a minimum, common law and statutory requirements.
• Develop and implement a site strategy, that creates and sustains a genuine “world class operations environment” that services the Company’s Commercial function.
• Lead, develop, coach and engage Site Management Team.
• Manage and control the site operational financial budget, ensuring efficient utilization of all resources.
• Create and deliver year on year cost reduction projects, using continuous improvement tools.
• Overall coordination & control of all activities related to plant operations & maintenance.

Job Requirements:-

• Bachelor of Engineering / Masters level (Polymer, Production, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering)
• Min 10-15 years’ experience in managerial role at manufacture industry.
• Experience in uPVC, Extrusion/Injection molding, other plastics
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Power Point
• Good Communication skills in written &verbal
• Excellent team-handling skills with a hands-on approach
• Good Leadership skills
• Technical, and operational knowledge of the PVC & Polymer compounding, extrusion, Automation, pneumatic conveying, and pipes quality standards.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Contact us

If you have questions or would like to gain more insight about the role, please contact Tanu via [email protected] or Martinus via [email protected].

To apply, use the ‘apply’ button or e-mail your cover letter and English CV to [email protected] or [email protected].

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

Main Purpose:-

• Put in place procedures, policies and SOP’s.
• Drive HSE implementation to meet both Orbia and local requirements
• Manage, monitor, guide, and review manufacturing, to ensure that they are up to Wavin’s quality and efficiency standards.
• Management of site manufacturing, technical and engineering operations in accordance with set Company objectives, ensuring the application of world-class H&S standards.
• Optimize OPEX, Maximize operational efficiencies within labour/materials/energy cost standards to planned output and in accordance with agreed specifications.
• Take actions to reach targeted conversion costs
• Conceptualize the improvement in productivity, quality, reliability, yield and cost efficiency in overall plant operations. Drive actions to meet required KPI’s put in place
• Drive, deliver and monitor Continuous Improvement initiatives in line with business strategy and objectives.

Job Responsibilities:-

• Plan and monitor the day-to-day running of the business to ensure smooth progress
• Regularly evaluate the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements
• Work on succession planning of the workforce, appraise the member’s performance & provide feedback.
• Coordinate material and resources allocation in line with Bom definitions to keep variances low
• Manage relationships/agreements with external partners/vendors
• Ensure excellent country-wide management of HSE activities, with the focus on ‘zero accidents’: safeguarding, as a minimum, common law and statutory requirements.
• Develop and implement a site strategy, that creates and sustains a genuine “world class operations environment” that services the Company’s Commercial function.
• Lead, develop, coach and engage Site Management Team.
• Manage and control the site operational financial budget, ensuring efficient utilization of all resources.
• Create and deliver year on year cost reduction projects, using continuous improvement tools.
• Overall coordination & control of all activities related to plant operations & maintenance.

Job Requirements:-

• Bachelor of Engineering / Masters level (Polymer, Production, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering)
• Min 10-15 years’ experience in managerial role at manufacture industry.
• Experience in uPVC, Extrusion/Injection molding, other plastics
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Power Point
• Good Communication skills in written &verbal
• Excellent team-handling skills with a hands-on approach
• Good Leadership skills
• Technical, and operational knowledge of the PVC & Polymer compounding, extrusion, Automation, pneumatic conveying, and pipes quality standards.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Contact us

If you have questions or would like to gain more insight about the role, please contact Tanu via [email protected] or Martinus via [email protected].

To apply, use the ‘apply’ button or e-mail your cover letter and English CV to [email protected] or [email protected].