Paper Processing Manager (m/f/d)

• 07 October 2026
• 100%
• Indefinite term
• Gretzenbach

Join Cartaseta in Gretzenbach, a leader in paper. Enjoy a dynamic corporate culture and an enriching career.

Tasks ##

• Lead and develop a team of six managers and 30 employees.
• Manage the entire paper production process in 3 teams.
• Optimize processes to improve efficiency and quality.

Skills ##

• Technical training and management experience in industry.
• Leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and sense of collaboration.

Lead people. Design processes. Drive production forward.

• Gretzenbach
• Permanent contract
• Full time

About us

Hello, we are Cartaseta, a family business. For us, values such as commitment, stability, trust, flexibility, and unity are paramount. These values have allowed us to succeed over the past 50 years. Thanks to our long experience and state-of-the-art technology, we provide premium products for commerce. Through cooperation with plants in Germany and Poland, we can respond flexibly to the requirements of a global market. Our investments in modern technologies allow us to keep pace with the international market. We combine this great potential with efficient corporate structures and personal customer proximity, ensuring a deep understanding of people and markets.

To strengthen our team in Gretzenbach, we are looking for as soon as possible :

Paper Processing Manager (m/f/d) - 100%

Cartaseta AG embodies tradition and innovation in the field of paper processing. We combine long experience with state-of-the-art technologies and attach the greatest importance to quality, sustainability, and partnership-based collaboration. Our work culture is based on team spirit, personal initiative, and continuous development. Join us to combine responsibility and autonomy with secure perspectives - and become a member of a motivated team that achieves more together.

Tasks

• Management: Lead and develop six directly subordinate executives as well as approximately 30 employees. Promote a leadership culture focused on performance and recognition, where individual responsibility, collaboration, and continuous development are lived.
• Production: Overall responsibility for the paper processing sector with three production facilities - including one ultra-modern new facility - as well as the management of a production sector in 3 teams. Ensure safe, economical, and smooth production operation.
• Optimization: Analysis of relevant indicators, identification of improvement potentials as well as continuous development of processes, procedures, and standards with a focus on efficiency, quality, and productivity.
• Quality & Safety: Ensure compliance with and continuous development of quality, safety, and environmental standards as well as promote a sustainable safety culture.
• Collaboration: Close interservice collaboration with planning, maintenance, quality, logistics, and production to ensure efficient and smooth processes.
• Management Team: Active participation as a member of the management team in the strategic and operational development of the site as well as in the co-construction of the future of Cartaseta AG.

Profile

• Education: Completed basic technical training as well as additional training at HF, FH level or a comparable qualification in the fields of production, process technology, mechanical engineering, business administration, or a related field.
• Management Experience: Several years of experience in a comparable management function within an industrial production company as well as the pleasure of promoting and developing employees.
• Production: Experience in the paper industry or a comparable manufacturing industry as well as a good understanding of production processes, lean management, and continuous improvement processes.
• Personality: Entrepreneurial spirit, great autonomy as well as a structured, solution-oriented, and pragmatic way of working. Decision-making and the ability to assert choices associated with a respectful leadership attitude.
• Communication: Pronounced social skills as well as the ability to connect different stakeholder groups and to successfully accompany changes.
• Language: Very good knowledge of German orally and in writing as well as good knowledge of English desired.

Offer

• Vacations: At least 5 weeks of vacation as well as additional days off for executives for balanced recovery
• Working time: A 42-hour week with attractive employment conditions
• Provision: An above-average pension fund including an executive solution for your financial future
• Parking: Free parking directly at the workplace
• Recognition: Birthday, Easter, and Saint Nicholas gifts as a thank you
• Catering: Free fruit, refreshing ice cream in summer as well as a healthy catering offer
• Team culture: A motivated team, an open culture of informal address (tutoiement) and a working environment where collaboration is paramount
• Employee products: Free products from our assortment twice a year
• Integration: A structured introduction so that you can start successfully in your new function
• Development: Numerous possibilities for initial and continuous training for your professional and personal development
• Site: A central workplace located between the regi