Plant Engineering Manager

Plant Engineering Manager Job Overview

• Location: United States, Randleman, North Carolina
• Job
  
  Skills:
  
  Engineering and Project Management
• Type: Permanent
• Job : 167986
• Salary: Negotiable

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 (KPIs) for safety, quality, production, maintenance, efficiency, and service.

• 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 KPIs, 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).
• Provide management of engineering services for the installation, maintenance, and improvement of machinery, equipment and facilities.
• Deploy troubleshooting procedures: failure analysis and corrective action procedure, equipment capacities and risks, and other engineering solutions.
• Develop and implement 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 (SOPs), work instructions, specialty tools, and updated Preventive Maintenance (PM) kits.
• Set priorities for maintenance backlog and oversee long‑range and short‑range maintenance schedules.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Be responsible for evaluating, installing and testing new equipment.
• Ensure 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 of 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, including principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to design and production.
• Advanced knowledge of design…