Manufacturing for future project leader

Company Description

Avery Dennison Corporation(NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company that provides a wide range of branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers. Our products and solutions include labeling and functional materials, radio frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital, and a variety of products and solutions that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving an array of industries worldwide — including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive — we employ approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2023 were $8.4 billion. Learn more atwww.averydennison.com.

Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer

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Job Description

Avery Dennison is looking for a Manufacturing for Future project leader to drive strategic projects encompassing product/asset optimization, operations transformation and technical transformation across our European Avery Dennison sites.

The role will require close collaboration with local process, quality, operations teams as well as business functions and the IT organization.

Located in one of our main locations in Europe and reporting to the Manufacturing for Future manager, part of the ELS and Digital transformation team, you will be responsible for the following:

• Support the M4F Manager and the SC&Ops leadership team in coordinating strategic projects focused on business transformation as a PMO and as a project data analyst.
• Identify and introduce innovative project management tools and working methods.
• Through a continuous improvement approach, identify opportunities for efficiency improvement from an operational and technical point of view, with an emphasis on the automation and robotization of our coating and finishing assets and material flows, in close collaboration with the continuous improvement department, the community of Data Scientists and Digital Transformation Leaders.
• Proactively benchmark externally to identify emerging technologies that could be applied in our manufacturing sites, taking into account the evolution of our market challenges
• Lead pilot projects to test new technologies in our manufacturing sites.
  
  

Qualifications

Let's talk about you!

• You hold an engineering degree.
• You are fluent in English and French. Dutch, German and other languages are considered a plus.
• You have a strong knowledge of the concepts and philosophies of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma.
• You have proven manufacturing experience, particularly with knowledge of coating processes and operations.
• You are keen on data: you know how to collect and analyze data to guide your decisions.
• You are open to traveling to Europe depending on the location of the project.
  
  

Additional Information

Why join us?

The Avery Dennison Luxembourg site in Rodange is a growing production site of 540 people, staffed by close-knit, multidisciplinary teams with a wide variety of nationalities. It is the factory producing the largest volume of self-adhesive materials in the world. The site is also at the forefront in reducing its carbon footprint.

We offer:

• structured integration and development of your skills
• competitive remuneration
• flexibility in the workplace
• development opportunities including internationally
  
  

For more information on our Diversity & Inclusion approach, please click on this link: https://www.averydennison.com/en/home/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion.html