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St Neots
Requisition ID: 55987
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Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com .
What does a Production Manager do?
As a Production Manager (Value Stream Leader), you will lead the end-to-end manufacturing operation, ensuring the safe, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of production targets. You will be responsible for driving operational excellence across production, quality, maintenance, supply chain, and logistics while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams, you will optimize resources, develop people, and implement strategies that improve productivity, service, quality, and profitability.
Why do we need you?
Lead the day-to-day operation of the manufacturing facility, providing strong leadership, direction, and accountability across production activities while leveraging people leadership, decision-making, and operational management skills.
Champion a strong safety culture, ensuring compliance with safety policies and promoting a safe working environment through effective communication, coaching, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Manage manufacturing budgets and cost performance, partnering with finance teams to deliver business objectives using financial acumen, analytical thinking, and planning capabilities.
Ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements, maintaining operational standards through strong governance, risk management, and problem-solving skills.
Optimize production performance by removing constraints and maximizing resources, applying continuous improvement, resource planning, and operational excellence expertise.
Collaborate with Supply Chain and business teams to optimize manufacturing capacity and network performance, utilizing cross-functional leadership, relationship-building, and strategic thinking skills.
Develop and inspire high-performing teams, ensuring alignment with plant and company objectives through talent development, coaching, delegation, and team-building capabilities.
Drive quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement initiatives, monitoring operational metrics and implementing improvements through strong analytical, Six Sigma/Lean Manufacturing, and project management skills.
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Value Chain Management, or a related discipline.
Additional business or commercial qualifications are an advantage.
Professional membership of a recognized manufacturing or engineering institution is preferred.
Experience
Proven experience leading manufacturing, production, or value chain operations.
Demonstrated experience managing teams within a manufacturing environment.
Experience delivering large-scale operational or transformation projects is highly desirable.
Track record of driving productivity, quality, safety, and cost improvement initiatives.
Requisition id: 55987
Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
- Please be cautious of fraudulent recruiting efforts using the Sealed Air name or logo. Sealed Air will never request private information during the application process, such as a Driver's License or Social Security Number. If you have any concerns about information received from SEE during the application process, please reach out to us directly at [email protected].
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WHY WORK AT SEALED AIR?
It is our responsibility to leverage what we have to affect positive and meaningful change for our communities and planet using Sealed Air’s global resources and expertise.
Corporate sustainability - it’s about improving the lives of people around the world by addressing pressing needs in the communities where we and our customers operate.
Customer Success - meeting our customers' needs. At Sealed Air it’s more than a goal, it’s an integral part of our business practices, our innovative solutions, and our values.
Leaving our communities better than we found them through dedication of time, talent and resources.
