Plastics Plant Engineering Manager

Salary: $120k-$160k

Relocation bonus if offered.

Our client, a leading manufacturer of disposable food packaging products, is seeking a Plant Engineering Manager to join their team in Randleman, NC.

Summary

Manage engineering, reliability, maintenance and facilities operations in a facility containing multiple, complex operations with at least 200 employees with a focus on meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for safety, quality, production, maintenance, efficiency, and service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers.
• Take ownership and demonstrate leadership necessary to achieve goals specific to Safety, Quality, Service, Efficiency and Employee Development
• Monitor KPI’s anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of targets
• Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)
• Provides management of engineering services for the installation, maintenance, and improvement of machinery, equipment and facilities
• Troubleshoot, analyze, identify, evaluate, propose, implement, and document maintenance plans and performance metrics:
• Failure, analysis, and corrective action procedure
• Equipment capacities and risks; and
• Other engineering solutions
• Develop and implement of preventive, predictive, and autonomous maintenance plans
• Investigate root-cause for repetitive damage and failure rates, and calculate costs that do not meet or follow the maintenance plans
• Evaluate, recommend, and acquire tools for use, including process analysis software, and other physical tools and resources specific to reliability and maintenance improvement
• Lead training efforts to ensure maintenance technicians have needed resources for standard operating procedures (SOP’s), work instructions, specialty tools, and updated Preventive Maintenance (PM) kits
• Sets priorities for maintenance backlog and oversees long-range and short-range maintenance schedules.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Responsible for evaluating, installing and testing new equipment
• Ensures that maintenance standards are compliant with statutory health and safety regulations.
• Direct teams to assess progress, analyze problems, facilitate solutions, identify resources and adjust plans as needed
• Ensure that objectives are achieved at the lowest cost consistent with quality requirements
• Identify and recommend short- and long-term business strategies, understand and drive industry best practices
• Develop and convey broad, advanced conceptual ideas, and propose and persuade several diverse stakeholders, including senior manufacturing leadership
• Establish and communicate department goals
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on applicable machinery, equipment and facility for cross functional projects
• Understand, support and follow management expectations in alignment with company values

Leadership/Supervisory Responsibilities

• Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of staff
• Responsible for employee development, discipline, performance appraisals, and administration of policies
• Review staff levels to ensure they are adequate, and resources are effectively allocated to meet short- and long-term objectives
• Make recommendations regarding staffing decisions
• Conduct or participate in the interview process with new candidates.

Education, Experience Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in engineering or related field and seven (7) years of engineering, facilities and/or machinery maintenance experience
• Seven (7) years of progressive supervisory experience
• Two (2) years specific experience performing maintenance and equipment reliability
• Displays strong interpersonal skills and is accessible and approachable
• Demonstrated project management experience by having successfully managed and completed a large, complex engineering project
• Advanced knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various products
• Advanced knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
• Understanding of reliability tools and strategies including direct experience facilitating Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) or Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Advanced knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of products
• Knowledge of business and management principles specifically as it relates to maintenance planning, resource allocation, cost analysis and budgeting, people management, and leadership guidance
• Excellent verbal and written skills necessary in order to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams, and to explain difficult situations
• Ability to communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences
• Ability to utilize and train employees of varying levels/skills on technology, processes and procedures
• Demonstration of minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on-going communications about safety and quality issue