Head of Tissue Technology expert (m/w/d)

Job Description

Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application!

Head of Tissue Technology (m/w/d)

Location: Near any site of Wepa in Europe

Your Tasks

• You possess expertise in essential processes for tissue making, including stock preparation, paper making with chemistry, water handling, and energy, with additional knowledge in converting and warehousing technology
• You manage and develop a team of experts across various technologies
• You monitor technological developments and conduct market surveys to analyze key suppliers
• You conduct internal and external benchmarking to implement the best available technologies
• You collaborate with the paper making and converting managers' community of Wepa
• You provide guidance on technology selection and key suppliers, basing decisions on performance, reliability, investment cost, and cost in use
• You develop the technology strategy and roadmap for the group
• You support the group in building mid-term asset plans for each mill
• You work with project managers through the Capex Excellence program to determine the best technological solutions for each project
• You support marketing strategies and supply chain demands, ensuring alignment with the interests and targets of the BU Consumer/Professional
  
  

Your Profile

• Personality: Leadership mentality, excellent communication skills, determined to make calculated decisions, affinity for technology, hands-on mentality, curious mindset
• Working: Independent, team-oriented and structured work with focus that is detail-oriented
• experience and Know-how: +10 years of experience in the tissue industry, experience in project management, leadership experience in a Matrix organisation
• Qualification: Master's degree in Engineering - Paper, Process, Chemical or Energy,
• Languages: Fluent in English, knowledge of German is desirable
• Travel: Willingness to travel on a base of 2-3 trips per month
  
  

Your Benefits

• Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
• Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
• Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
• WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
• Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
• Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.
  
  

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.

About Us

The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With more than 4,000 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 14 production sites in Europe.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years.

We Consistently Invest In The Qualification Of Our Employees, Point Out Individual Career And Development Opportunities And Promote Them. We Do This Because We Are Convinced Of One Thing

Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.