Description
**Purpose of the Team**
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The Faerch EDV Operations team — comprising Production, Maintenance, Quality, and Supply Chain departments — works collaboratively to ensure our food-grade packaging reaches customers with the expected quality, on time, and in perfect condition. Each area contributes essential expertise to our mission, ensuring maximum operational efficiency and compliance with the highest standards of personnel safety, food safety, circularity, and sustainability — foundational pillars of our commitment to excellence and environmental responsibility.
**Your Role**
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As Site Director, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with occupational safety, food safety, and quality standards, maintaining a safe and regulatory-compliant work environment.
Lead and manage the team, fostering motivation, development, and employee engagement.
Oversee achievement of objectives and periodically report on key performance indicators.
**What We Are Looking For**
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We seek a strategic-minded, results-oriented professional with a strong commitment to continuous improvement — someone capable of balancing the business’s global vision with daily operational management, while consistently prioritizing safety, quality, and efficiency.
To succeed in this role, you must demonstrate effective communication, analytical capability, sound judgment in decision-making, and a proactive attitude toward change. We are looking for an approachable leader who can inspire, develop talent, and foster a collaborative, excellence- and sustainability-driven environment.
**Key Responsibilities**
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* Ensure compliance with occupational safety, food safety, and quality standards.
* Supervise and optimize the production process to meet efficiency, quality, and service objectives, periodically reporting on indicator status, projects, and action plans.
* Develop and implement continuous improvement programs that promote innovation, resource optimization, and sustainability.
* Lead and manage the Production, Quality, Maintenance, Logistics, and Planning teams, fostering motivation, development, and employee engagement.
* Manage the site’s annual budget, ensuring appropriate allocation of human, technical, and material resources.
**Experience & Qualifications**
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The ideal candidate holds a university degree in Engineering or a related field, fluent English proficiency, and substantial experience leading teams and processes in complex industrial environments.
Additional qualifications such as an MBA or leadership training will be considered an advantage.
**Success in This Role**
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Within 6–12 months, the following indicators will determine whether the Site Director is successfully developing in the role:
* Establishing a culture of trust with their direct team, enabling motivated employees to operate autonomously.
* Embedding Faerch’s Safety Culture across all teams, creating a workplace where safety rules have become habitual (e.g., PPE, Life Saving Rules), and everyone actively safeguards everyone else’s safety.
* Operationally, restoring efficiency in production areas, improving inventory reliability, and strengthening customer service performance.
**Meet the Team**
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The Site Director will lead an established and committed team composed of experienced professionals in their respective fields — enabling highly autonomous and responsible work. A positive working atmosphere prevails, grounded in collaboration and mutual respect; however, during periods of heightened operational demand, tensions may arise due to the pace and complexity of the industrial environment.
Overall, departments maintain smooth coordination and a cooperative spirit, aligned toward shared goals and upholding the quality, safety, and efficiency standards that define Faerch Buñol.
**Meet Your Manager**
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The Site Director reports directly to the Vice President of Production for Southern Europe — a leader who values honesty, collaboration, and communication as fundamental management principles. Her leadership style emphasizes mutual trust, accountable leadership, and data- and results-driven decision-making, always supported by clear and direct communication.
The Vice President of Production for Southern Europe fosters an environment where standards are rigorously upheld, high expectations coexist with respect, and firmness is applied consistently and fairly — always aiming to develop the team and achieve shared objectives.
**What Is It Like to Work at Faerch?**
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Working at Faerch-EDV means joining a purpose-driven company focused on sustainability and innovation. We invest in your development and offer an international, supportive environment where people can thrive.
**Are You the Person We Are Looking For?**
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Are you motivated by a dynamic environment where your ideas help shape the future?