Cartaseta AG
Aargau
Head of Paper Processing (m/f/d) Full-time – Leadership & Innovation | Cartaseta AG Gretzenbach
- 07 August 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Aargau
About the job
Lead people. Shape processes. Drive production.
- Gretzenbach
- permanent
- full-time
About us
Hey, we are Cartaseta, a family-owned company. Our core values are commitment, stability, trust, flexibility, and unity. These values have made us successful over the past 50 years. With our long-standing experience and state-of-the-art technology, we deliver first-class products for the trade. Through cooperation with plants in Germany and Poland, we can flexibly respond to the demands of a global market. Our investments in modern technologies enable us to keep pace with the international market. We combine this great potential with efficient corporate structures and a personal customer approach that ensures a deep understanding of people and markets.
To strengthen our team in Gretzenbach, we are looking for you as soon as possible as
Head of Paper Processing (m/f/d) – 100%
Cartaseta AG stands for tradition and innovation in the field of paper processing. We combine many years of experience with the latest technologies and place the highest value on quality, sustainability, and a partnership-based cooperation. Our work culture is based on team spirit, initiative, and continuous development. Combine responsibility and scope for design with secure prospects with us – and become part of a motivated team that achieves more together.
Tasks
- Leadership: Leading and further developing six directly reporting managers as well as around 30 employees. Promoting a performance-oriented, appreciative leadership culture in which personal responsibility, collaboration, and continuous development are lived.
- Production: Overall responsibility for the paper processing area with three production plants – including a state-of-the-art new plant – as well as leading a production area in a 3-shift operation. Ensuring a safe, economical, and smooth production operation.
- Optimisation: Analysing relevant key figures, identifying improvement potentials, and continuously developing processes, workflows, and standards with a focus on efficiency, quality, and productivity.
- Quality & Safety: Ensuring compliance with and continuous development of quality, safety, and environmental standards as well as promoting a sustainable safety culture.
- Collaboration: Close cross-departmental cooperation with planning, maintenance, quality, logistics, and production to ensure efficient and smooth processes.
- Leadership team: Active participation as a member of the leadership team in the strategic and operational development of the site as well as shaping the future of Cartaseta AG.
Profile
- Education: Completed technical basic training as well as further training at HF, FH level or a comparable qualification in production, process engineering, mechanical engineering, business administration, or a related field.
- Leadership experience: Several years of experience in a comparable leadership role within an industrial production company as well as enjoyment in promoting and developing employees.
- Production: Experience in the paper industry or a comparable processing industry as well as a good understanding of production processes, lean management, and continuous improvement processes.
- Personality: Entrepreneurial thinking, high personal responsibility as well as a structured, solution-oriented, and pragmatic working style. Decisiveness and assertiveness combined with an appreciative leadership attitude.
- Communication: Strong social skills as well as the ability to connect different stakeholders and successfully accompany changes.
- Language: Very good German skills in spoken and written form as well as good English skills are an advantage.
Offer
- Holidays: At least 5 weeks of holiday plus additional managerial holiday days for balanced recovery
- Working hours: A 42-hour week with attractive employment conditions
- Pension: An above-average pension fund including a managerial solution for your financial future
- Parking: Free parking spaces directly at the workplace
- Appreciation: Birthday, Easter, and Christmas gifts as a small thank you
- Catering: Free fruit, refreshing ice cream in summer as well as healthy catering options
- Team culture: A motivated team, an open informal culture and a working environment where collaboration is highly valued
- Employee products: Free products from our range twice a year
- Induction: A structured introduction so you can start successfully in your new role
- Development: Diverse training and further education opportunities for your professional and personal development
- Location: A centrally located workplace between the regions of Aargau, Solothurn, and Bern with good transport connections
- Digital: Access to our employee app for current information and modern internal communication
- Employee referral: Attractive bonuses for successful employee recommendations
Contact
Take responsibility. Shape the future.
If you are looking for a leadership role with scope for design and want to make a difference with us, we look forward to receiving your online application.
Melissa Bagdat
Head of Human Resources
Cartaseta AG | Human Resources Department | Sandackerstrasse 3 | 5014 Gretzenbach