Director, Engineering (Distribution

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

The BU Engineering Director is responsible for leading engineering activities across an assigned business unit and supporting operational performance, manufacturing readiness, reliability improvement, capital project execution, and adoption of enterprise engineering standards across manufacturing plants. This role leads Operating Unit Engineering teams within the business unit while partnering cross-functionally to drive engineering alignment, operational performance, technical issue resolution, and effective execution of prioritized capital initiatives across manufacturing operations.

• Ensure compliance with company safety standards, engineering standards, and operational procedures.
• Lead engineering activities across assigned business unit operations.
• Provide leadership, coaching, technical support, and capability‑building for Operating Unit Engineers within the business unit.
• Drive process optimization, reliability improvement, and engineering performance across manufacturing sites, including uptime, throughput, yield, and scrap reduction.
• Lead escalation management and support troubleshooting for complex operational, technical, process, and reliability issues across manufacturing sites.
• Drive adoption and implementation of enterprise engineering standards, tools, governance, and best practices across manufacturing sites.
• Support manufacturing readiness, startup stabilization, and operational performance improvement initiatives.
• Lead prioritization and execution of capital projects within the business unit, ensuring alignment to operational needs, business priorities, engineering standards, scope, schedule, budget, and safety expectations.
• Partner with Capital Project Engineering, Operations, and plant leadership to support project planning, readiness, execution, startup, stabilization, and benefits realization for approved capital initiatives.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

• 10+ years of manufacturing engineering, process engineering, reliability engineering, or technical operations experience.
• 5+ years of leadership or technical leadership experience supporting manufacturing operations.
• Experience supporting high‑volume manufacturing operations across 20+ plants.
• Experience improving operational performance related to throughput, uptime, reliability, yield, scrap reduction, and process capability.
• Experience supporting process troubleshooting, operational stabilization, and manufacturing readiness initiatives.
• Experience supporting capital project planning, execution, startup, stabilization, and operational handoff within manufacturing environments.
• Experience driving engineering standardization and best practice adoption across manufacturing operations.
• Strong leadership,…