Operations Engineering Manager

Job Description

High-potential engineering leader capable responsible for immediately strengthening equipment reliability, capital discipline, and systems-driven execution at the plant. Explicit ownership of enterprise systems, capital justification, and vendor selection processes.

MYTEX Polymers US Corp

• Own the mechanical and/or electrical reliability strategy for the plant
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for chronic downtime, quality losses, and safety incident
• Drive improvements in preventive and predictive maintenance effectiveness

• Own and lead the plant-level transition of the maintenance function from SAP ECC / MVP1 to SAP S/4
  
  HANA
• Serve as the primary business owner for maintenance processes during the S/4
  
  HANA migration
• Own asset master data, equipment hierarchies, BOMs, task lists, maintenance plans, and work order structures
• Lead definition and standardization of PMs, notifications, and maintenance workflows in S/4
  
  HANA
• Lead maintenance-related user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Own training, adoption, and post–go-live usage of S/4
  
  HANA maintenance functionality
• Use S/4
  
  HANA data and reporting to drive reliability, planning, and cost improvements

• Own the development of capital project business cases from concept through approval
• Develop full financial justifications including ROI, payback period, NPV (where applicable), and total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Quantify benefits such as uptime improvement, labor reduction, safety risk mitigation, quality improvement, energy savings, and maintenance cost avoidance
• Prepare approval-ready capital packages aligned with corporate governance requirement

• Own the end-to-end development of RFQs and bid packages for capital equipment, systems, and engineering services
• Translate operational needs and conceptual designs into competitive, well-defined RFQ documents
• Develop bid packages from initial concept and design through final bid collection and comparison
• Define technical scope, performance requirements, assumptions, exclusions, and integration constraints
• Lead technical evaluation of bids and vendor alignment prior to award

• Provide technical leadership and escalation support to production and maintenance teams
• Coach supervisors and technicians in structured problem-solving and decision-making
• Participate in S&OP, staffing, and operational planning discussions
• Gradually assume broader operational leadership responsibilities as readiness is demonstrated
• Comply with all applicable customer, safety, ISO/IATF 16949 QMS, and ISO
  14001 EMS requirements.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

• Ability to professionally and efficiently correspond with leadership via phone and email.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to interact in a personable, professional and courteous manner to all.
• Ability to self-manage multiple projects and deadlines in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Maintain Mytex information in a confidential manner.
• Pursue constant improvement of customer service and professional skills.

• Ability to maintain concentration with frequent interruptions.
• Professional, well groomed appearance and attire is advised.
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment

• This position involves working in an office and manufacturing environment

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Experience:
  
  5+ years’ of manufacturing experience in a plant environment.
• Demonstrated hands-on troubleshooting and capital project experience
• Demonstrated people leadership and plant-level responsibility
• Strong understanding of the plastics industry.
• Familiar with an inventory management system, preferably SAP.

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$140,000. Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training,…