Plant Operations Manager
Bic · Marne La Vallée
Posted on 25 October 2026
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Plant Operations Manager
Marne La Vallee, FR
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Join BIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways.
Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, global impact on our mission.
As MLV Senior Production Manager you support the implementation of strategies to achieve the operational and financial results in MLV Plant.
Marne-la-Vallée plant priority is to deliver on daily bases its volumes for CRISTAL, 4 COLORS and M10 products, to distribute on all European markets.
The plant manufactures over 10 billion of components and over 500 million of finished ball pens per year with a value of 54 M Euros; managing the processes from Metallurgy to Assembly operations, complying with Quality standards based on international certifications; this results are represented in metrics related to all employees safety, production volume and costs, products quality, plant efficiency, equipment maintenance, labor stability and people development, assuring operational efficiency of MLV.
MLV factory also serves most of the other stationery factories with components such as inks and points and lead the collaboration in site between the groups of manufacturing, BIC Tech, R&D and QA Lab´s.
According to the profile, the senior manager be will leading different departments, which will evolve through time (Production departments, maintenance, HSE, Quality, Logistics, …)
Job description:
Ensure the safest conditions for all the employees and boost the cultural change of Safety through all the organization by adopting the established safety measure and actively promoting safety culture
Review and consolidate the Budget of his department for the upcoming year, including assumptions, volumes, projects, capacity, labor, materials costs, expenses, investments, savings and standard cost evolution (for products manufactured in the plants).
Control of all the operations, follow up of expenses, head count, investments and authorize purchasing of maintenance and manufacturing over 1,000 USD getting a total of 1 M Euros in expenses per year (on the whole scope).
Ensure initiatives to enhance the culture of the organization and the equity for the employees.
Guarantee the service level for the internal customers and external customers by accomplishing production schedules.
Respect Quality standards dictated by the Category and/or the international certifications and taking care that all the operations follow them.
Deploy and manage all the resources assigned to each production line, Department, materials, headcount, equipment usage and maintenance.
Report production results in consistent basis along with the definition of continuous improvement actions.
Coordinate all the activities of production for the request of new products start up, current production improvement and also coordinate with Logistic and Central Supply Department for the Attainment and Adherence of our productions.
Provide any needed technical support in industrial or core tech. projects
Ensure accomplishment of operational efficiency level KPI for all the perimeters to achieve the result. Design and deploy improvement plan to reach and/or sustain the efficiency level.
Coordinature and lead the collaboration and alignment with other functions in site, Procurement, Core Tech, Innovation and Quality Lab´s.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing
Manufacturing processes, lean Manufacturing
Large people management
Unionized staff, plant financials
Over 15 years in Manufacturing / Production
Strong leadership skills
Ability to translate local action plan in concrete short- term results
Enthusiastic, change champion & strong capacity to connect with all the stakeholders
High communication skills
Fluent in English and French
BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
BIC World is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email, or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means.
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