Engineering Manager

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

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.
• 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

• 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.

• 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…