Responsibilities
- Ensure adherence to company safety standards, engineering guidelines, and operational procedures.
- Direct engineering efforts across assigned business unit operations.
- Offer leadership, coaching, technical guidance, and skill development for Operating Unit Engineers within the business unit.
- Drive improvements in process efficiency, reliability, and engineering performance at manufacturing sites, focusing on uptime, throughput, yield, and waste reduction.
- Manage escalation and support troubleshooting for complex operational, technical, process, and reliability issues across manufacturing locations.
- Promote the adoption and implementation of enterprise engineering standards, tools, governance, and best practices across manufacturing sites.
- Support manufacturing readiness, startup stabilization, and initiatives to enhance operational performance.
- Lead the prioritization and execution of capital projects within the business unit, ensuring alignment with operational needs, business priorities, engineering standards, scope, schedule, budget, and safety requirements.
- Collaborate with Capital Project Engineering, Operations, and plant leadership to support project planning, readiness, execution, startup, stabilization, and benefits realization for approved capital initiatives.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, reliability engineering, or technical operations.
- At least 5 years of leadership or technical leadership experience supporting manufacturing operations.
- Experience supporting high-volume manufacturing operations across 20 or more plants.
- Experience improving operational performance related to throughput, uptime, reliability, yield, scrap reduction, and process capability.
- Experience supporting process troubleshooting, operational stabilization, and manufacturing readiness initiatives.
- Experience supporting capital project planning, execution, startup, stabilization, and operational handoff in manufacturing environments.
- Experience driving engineering standardization and best practice adoption across manufacturing operations.
- Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Ability to coach, mentor, and support engineering teams across 20 or more plants.
- Ability to operate effectively within matrixed manufacturing organizations.
- Proficiency with common office technology and tools.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting packaging, plastics, injection molding, extrusion, thermoforming, molded fiber, paper, or related manufacturing operations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline is highly preferred.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Paid vacation and sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
- Wellness program
Compensation
Bonus eligible
Work Arrangement
#LI-Remote
