Sr. Director, Business Unit Engineering

Company Overview 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.

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 Senior Director, Business Unit Engineering provides enterprise leadership for Business Unit Engineering across multiple manufacturing business units, operating units, and substrates. This role is accountable for advancing engineering performance, operational reliability, manufacturing capability, and adoption of enterprise engineering standards across Novolex manufacturing operations. The Senior Director partners closely with Operations, Capital Project Engineering, Centers of Excellence, and business leadership to align engineering priorities, strengthen technical execution, improve operating performance, and build scalable engineering capability across the organization.

• Champion a safety-first engineering culture and ensure compliance with company safety standards, engineering standards, operating procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Lead Business Unit Engineering teams across assigned manufacturing business units, providing strategic direction, operating priorities, and performance expectations.
• Build organizational capability through leadership development, coaching, succession planning, technical capability building, and performance management for BU Engineering leaders and Operating Unit Engineers.
• Establish alignment and prioritization of engineering initiatives across business units and plants to ensure resources are focused on the highest-value operational and strategic priorities.
• Drive measurable engineering and operational performance improvements across business units, including uptime, throughput, yield, scrap reduction, process capability, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.
• Provide executive-level escalation support for complex operational, technical, process, reliability, and manufacturing performance issues across business units.
• Partner with Centers of Excellence to accelerate adoption of enterprise engineering standards, tools, governance, best practices, and technical capabilities across business units.
• Partner with Capital Project Engineering, Operations Strategy, and business leadership to align capital priorities, project execution approach, manufacturing readiness, startup stabilization, and benefits realization.
• Develop and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, EH&S, Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial teams to support enterprise priorities and business unit performance objectives.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Essential

• 15+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, reliability engineering, technical operations, or related manufacturing leadership roles.
• 8+ years of leadership experience leading multi-site engineering, technical operations, or manufacturing support organizations.
• Demonstrated success improving operational performance, including throughput, uptime, reliability, yield, scrap reduction, process capability, and manufacturing readiness.
• Experience leading engineering standardization, governance adoption, best-practice deployment, and capability building across complex manufacturing operations.
• Strong executive leadership, organizational agility, communication, stakeholder management, and…