Operations Training Specialist

Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that connect, protect, and purify our world.

Mativ is the newly created company through the combination of SWM and Neenah. This is an exciting opportunity for both companies to come together and create a global leader in specialty materials and solutions with approximately $3B in sales generated through our complementary products, innovation capabilities, customers, and attractive end-markets. Together, there is potential to create significant value for our customers, shareholders, and, most importantly, our employees. Mativ is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions to solve our customers' most complex challenges. With over 7,500 employees worldwide, we manufacture on four continents and generate sales in more than 100 countries. We offer a wide range of premium applications across diversified and growing end markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers' products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.

description:

This role is responsible for assessing all training and developmental needs for operations employees. Develops, implements and evaluates training programs for all operations employees, in partnership with the department manager and production supervisors. Follows up on training provided and evaluates results for effectiveness. Additionally, this position will focus on inventory accuracy optimization and identifying, understanding and reducing material/labor variances. This includes training operators to perform booking with accuracy.

responsibilities:

Trainer - Verify applicability of existing production documentation. Work with operations team to update documentation as required. Train workforce to methods identified in documentation. Maintain training records.

• Create a plan that supports the training needs of each production operator. Training needs to consist of onboarding training, job related training and interim training as required.
• Assure all SOPs, work instructions, job breakdown sheets and other floor level documentation are suitable to use for training.
• Working with Engineering and Quality to revise the documents as required to make them effective training tools.
• Perform operator training.
• Work with HR to maintain training records.
• Perform training as required that results from nonconformance/excessive variance corrective actions.
• Establishes and maintains effective communication across the plant to insure training processes are equally and effectively supported across all crews and shift.

Production/Inventory Training and Analysis - Work with-in the production and warehouse departments to maximize inventory accuracy and minimize material and labor variances. Responsibilities include understanding SCAPA's systems, defining optimal methods, documenting methods, training on these methods, auditing, performing bookings, cycle counts and physical inventory.

• Analyze, control and ensure accuracy of inventory balances.
• Work with production planners and production operators to determine root cause of cycle count, inventory audit and production reporting variances.
• Create (as required) and maintain documentation, processes and procedures associated with inventory and maintaining inventory accuracy.
• Continually work to improve all aspects of the inventory system.
• Work interactively with operators to perform accurate booking and line clearance.
• Coordinate, maintain and improve cycle count program.
• Analyze and verify cycle count variances.
• Lead, monitor and participate in Physical Inventories.
• Perform audits of inventory and production transactions to ensure accuracy.
• Make inventory adjustments as necessary.
• Create and maintain queries to resolve inventory issues.
• Assure accurate material usage reporting.
• Assure accurate scrap reporting
• Train operators and staff as required.
• Maintain integrity of BOMs
• Prepare inventory related and other reports as required

qualifications:

Essential Skills / Experience / Qualifications:

• Associate degree or equivalent from 2 year college or technical school and two years of experience in manufacturing or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ experience generating and delivering training content
• Strong mathematical/analytical ability and root cause analysis skills.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Strong interpersonal, time management of organizational skills.
• Detail oriented and have the ability to multi-task.
• Strong communication skills and ability to speak effectively before a group of associates.
• Proficiency with Microsoft office applications.
• Experience with MRP systems.
• Knowledge of fundamental inventory concepts.

Desirable Skills / Experience / Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Communications, Business Administration, Business Management or related field preferred.

Work Environment / Physical Demands:

Both office and manufacturing environment.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Mativ, our benefits reflect how much we value and care for each other. We know that employees and their families have unique needs, so our comprehensive benefits offer flexibility, quality, and affordability. Here are just a few of the ways we support your well-being and that of your loved ones:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP)
• Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
• Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Employee assistance programs - available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance

ABOUT MATIV

Mativ Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The company connects, protects, and purifies the world every day through a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that solve our customers' most complex challenges. We manufacture on three continents and generate sales in nearly 100 countries through our family of business-to-business and consumer product brands. The company's two segments, Filtration & Advanced Materials and Sustainable & Adhesive Solutions, target premium applications across diversified and growing end-markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging and more. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers' products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.

Mativ and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.