Operations Director
Smurfit Westrock March
How to Apply About Us
Smurfit Westrock, a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging, operates in 40 countries with over 500 packaging converting operations and 63 paper mills. Formerly being known as Smurfit Kappa, and proudly merged with Westrock in July 2024.
We offer an unparalleled portfolio of innovative packaging solutions ranging from corrugated and consumer packaging to Bag-in-Box® packaging and point-of-sale displays.
With the circular economy at the core of our business, we use renewable, recyclable and recycled materials to create sustainable packaging solutions.
As a trusted partner to companies across the world, Smurfit Westrock is dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges.
We are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.
Our global headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland, and we have a primary listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
March is one of our largest manufacturing sites in the UK Corrugated Division. It's vision is "Proud to make complexity safe, simple and efficient".
At March, we have a strong and dedicated workforce of C200 talented colleagues with an average tenure of 14 years who work tirelessly to provide high quality packaging solutions for our many customers.
Our site which is located on the outskirts of March is 58,500m² and has excellent road links.
From our highly automated, complex integrated site we service 114 customers, including Local, National, Multi-National, Pan European and Global accounts.
Predominantly our customers are in FMCG, Produce and eCommerce. Serving some of the most recognisable local, national and global brands, our customers, service sectors including snack foods, catering, pet care, fresh flowers, beauty, fashion and many others.
With a complex product offering, we produce over C1840 SKU's across our 12 conversion machines.
With so many of our customers working within the food industry we have a number of accreditations to demonstrate our commitment to quality, environment and people including FSC, BRC, ISO 14001 and SMETA.
On site we encourage open communication across all areas. For the last two years we have been successfully delivering a new Performance Excellence approach exploring operational efficiencies, change management, continuous improvement, health and safety, zero loss, and problem solving; all driven through a collaborative bottom-up approach.
The site has an active employee forum who meet regularly to discuss key priorities, changes and initiatives such as employee events and wellbeing activities, and we work in partnership with our on-site Union and Health and Safety Representatives to ensure our processes are applied consistently and fairly. The site is proud to work closely with the local community and we actively engage with local charities through donations and fundraising.
Vision & Strategy
Our vision is to be a globally admired business, dynamically and sustainably delivering secure and superior returns for all stakeholders. How we do this goes beyond dynamic business performance. We strongly believe in our responsibility to our people, our environment and the countries in which we operate.
Our People
Our people are our biggest asset and we recruit and develop the best and most experienced people at every level; creating an enviable combination of experience and expertise to share with our customers. Whilst we are large in scale, we are a family-values led organisation, recognising the importance of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect regardless of role or hierarchy.
Sustainability
We set ourselves the highest targets of sustainability and we achieve them, because quite simply, our belief is that if we look after the environment, it looks after us. Our commitment to the environment is to protect it and constantly improve our performance, with reduced emissions and limiting our footprint and impact on the environment. In countries where we operate, we set ourselves best-practice targets to help local communities to benefit from our presence.
Innovation and Design
Our unique approach to Innovation for business success is based on combining science, experience, big data and creativity on a scale and with a depth not seen in the industry.
Our processes, networks and tools ensure our innovations are available to our customers worldwide; giving unrivalled choice in new, innovative packaging. Our designs can be customised for any product and we are relentless in developing new, innovative designs as the demand for packaging evolves.
