Structural Design Associate Manager

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At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities. 

 

With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

 

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you.

 

A World of Difference. Made Possible.

 

The mission of the Innovation and Design (I&D) organization is to bring forth new packaging solutions through creative structural and manufacturing design, working collaboratively with our customer service, sales, internal graphic designers, machinery and systems engineers, business development team members, market and product managers, manufacturing and quality assurance personnel, key supplier partners and ultimately interfacing with customers to understand their unmet needs, consumer unmet needs, and marketing objectives.
 

The Structural Design team, within Innovation and Design, is responsible for the development of, and modification to, both new and existing paperboard carton structure designs.  The primary output of the Structural Design team is comprehensive, production-ready one-up drawings, which are ultimately used to design, specify, and procure production tooling for manufacturing of finished paperboard cartons. The secondary output are conceptual one-up drawings that meet and exceed the requirements of the end customer.  The overall Structural Design process is accomplished utilizing ArtiosCAD and SAP software applications as well as sample plotter tables for prototypes.

 

POSITION MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: Principal Duties and Responsibilities: 

 

Supervision/leadership

• Effectively and efficiently supervise a group of local and remote structural design and material handling direct-reports
• Assume all day-to-day supervisory tasks and responsibilities for the structural design group
• Actively monitor and control back-logs within all CPD Structural Design functions (team and individual designer scheduling, completion of design requests, completion of sample requests, completion of project requests, etc.)
• Implement and fine-tune Employee Development plans and initiatives
• Actively participate in, and contribute to, the I&D Department Leadership Team
• Actively participate in the development, implementation, and fine-tuning of Structural Design processes to drive improvement in GPI’s Voice-of-Customer survey Net Promoter Score (NPS)
• Assist in hiring process for new employees as needed
• Run daily, weekly, monthly and annual reports for the CPD structural design team
• Complete and present monthly score cards to employees
• Complete success factor evaluations for all direct reports
• Conduct department tours
• Coordinate safety training for structural design team

 

Structural Design and Software use:

• Actively monitor, maintain, and control work schedule and back-log (design requests, plotter sample requests, conversion request, etc.)
• Full understanding and utilization of the Artios CA