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:

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.

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…