| Under the direction of the Plant Manager, the Engineering Manager directs the activities of Project Engineering, Controls Engineering, Change Management and Electrical/Electronic Technicians (EET). Incumbent is responsible for all Regional, Plant and Departmental goals, including reliability, cost reduction, waste reduction, safety, quality and sanitation improvements, as well as ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures. In addition, this position will monitor progress towards goals and make certain that capital projects and other resources are being utilized to provide maximum benefits to the facility. Demonstrates a deep respect for the capabilities of all people, believing that people will contribute to what they understand and feel is in their best and self-interest. Must be able to structure their approach based on the core belief that the success of the company depends upon the capabilities and contributions of all people in the organization. This individual will serve as the highest level Engineering Manager/Leader on the Plant Senior Leadership Team based out of our largest manufacturing facility in the United States. | Key Responsibilities | - Team Management: Manage day-to-day activities of Engineering, EETs, and Change Management as well as external contractors. Will set goals, priorities, monitor progress, and evaluate performance of staff to ensure the maximum benefit of the resources expended. Creates an empowered environment (MHPS), ensuring that the Engineering, EETs & Change Management organization and its people understand the goals and objective (OGSM's) of the business and that they have the resource and support to accomplish them. Establishes an environment that ensures and supports open and healthy communications. Provides direction to EET leadership on complex electrical and program troubleshooting.
| - CAAP Execution: Prepare and manage Capital Asset Acquisition Proposal (CAAP's) annual budget. Ensure that projects are planned properly to provide sufficient funding, review data to ensure that results are achievable, and obtain necessary approvals. Closely monitor projects to ensure they are completed as planned and that funds are utilized properly. On an ongoing basis, initiate design changes and modifications to further improve machine efficiency, to facilitate packaging design changes and cost reductions, and to expand the capability of existing equipment to handle new products.
| - Strategic Planning: Development of both strategic capital plans, ensuring an acceptable return on investment replacement of worn or obsolete equipment, expansion of capacity to meet sales growth, equipment modification or replacement related to packaging changes or cost reduction, as well as development of expanded productive capacity for new products. Coordinate the selection, design, and layout of processing and packaging machinery to ensure efficiency, optimum space utilization, and adequate production capacity.
| - Process & Program Standardization: Responsible for ensuring that all engineering processes are completely documented (including Capital start up plans, SOPs, DOPs, and run documents), and implement any changes to these processes.
| - Risk Management: Responsible for meeting all regulatory requirements pertaining to the areas of waste disposal, air emissions, and facilities permits and codes. Responsible for timely filing of all regulatory documents to the appropriate Federal, State, and Local Governmental agencies. Responsible for meeting all regulatory requirements pertaining to waste disposal, emissions, facility permits and codes.
| - Budget Management: Creates operating budgets and capital budgets with other leadership teams members. Manage department expense budgets with appropriate accounting information and support. Participates in the business planning and budgeting process. Develops short and long-term cost containment/reduction strategies. Manages operating budget for Engineering and Change Management.
| | Required Qualifications | Bachelor's Degree in Relevant Engineering degree (ME, CHemE, IE, EE) | | Minimum 8-10 years manufacturing experience in food processing, pharmaceutical, or chemical process plus progressive leadership experience, including prior leadership of a technical team. Process engineering/analytical process mapping experience. Experience in Food Processing an asset. The job requires a detailed understanding of how all areas of the plant interact to contribute to the business. Requires a general understanding of the industry. Requires basic commercial awareness as it relates to competition but only requires limited understanding of the latest developments in the industry. | | Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide and influence others. Leadership of exempt staff to achieve common objectives. May interface with external parties as representative of the plant/facility. Strong cross-functional strategic leadership, communication, and teamwork skills. Ability to translate strategy into actionable information in small or large groups in a clear, concise, and professional manner. Ability to influence upwards. This role has contact with suppliers, vendors, and key customers for assigned areas. Strong relationships with HQ Engineering, Marketing, Packaging Development, Plants. Provides mentoring, coaching and leading technology and technical skills development. | | Leadership: This job has full management responsibility for a sizeable team, including managers and professionals, including management of people, defining roles and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. | | |
