Manager Engineering

• Drives plant reliability, safety, and operational excellence by leading all Engineering and Maintenance activities, ensuring manufacturing operations meet critical safety, environmental, quality, cost, and productivity targets.

• Builds a strong reliability and continuous improvement culture through predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, and equipment performance optimization, directly supporting sustained uptime and efficiency.

• Develops and leads high‑performing teams by recruiting, mentoring, and coaching engineering and maintenance talent, while managing succession planning and supporting labor relations.

• Manages capital investments and budgets to enable long‑term business success, ensuring plant assets, infrastructure, and technology are aligned with current and future operational needs.

• Lead plant reliability and asset performance by developing and executing the site reliability strategy, including predictive maintenance tools, root cause analysis, and equipment design improvements.

• Direct all Engineering and Maintenance activities to ensure facilities, utilities, and production equipment support efficient, safe, and compliant manufacturing operations.

• Build and sustain a high‑performing organization through recruiting, coaching, training, succession planning, and effective labor relations within the Engineering and Maintenance teams.

• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements, maintaining facility systems and managing utility usage to meet business and sustainability objectives.

• Deliver capital projects and operational results by managing the plant capital investment plan, integrating technical activities, and leveraging new technologies to improve efficiency and performance.

• Manage engineering budgets and support daily operations, controlling engineering expense and labor costs while partnering with plant leadership to achieve safety, quality, cost, and production goals.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with 10 or more years of experience in engineering project management and problem-solving in a manufacturing environment (preferably Maintenance)

• 5 or more years of experience of managing salary/hourly associates

• Experience with scope development, economic analysis, production evaluation, etc. - Related to manufacturing facility planning

• Ability to lead/manage multi-functional, diverse teams

• Communication, project management and continuous improvement skills

• Long-range planning/integration with short-term actions

• Ability to relate with customers

• Ability to determine important versus urgent

• Finance knowledge (including use of capital/budget planning, cash flow analysis and engineering economics calculations)

• Understanding of codes, standards and safety for machinery design

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