Senior Packaging Engineer

Overview

Sazerac Company Overview

Build your career at Sazerac! With almost 400 years of rich history, Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent, American family-owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Since the 2000s, Sazerac has averaged double digit growth every year! Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, and Sazerac Rye.

Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Southern Comfort, Seagram’s V.O., Myers’s, Goldschläger, Parrot Bay, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka.

We’re proud of our award-winning culture and distilleries. Our Louisville office has been named one of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” four times, and our Buffalo Trace Distillery has earned the title of “world’s most award-winning distillery” through the dedication of our craftsmen for well over 200 years. Whether you’re a recent graduate or an experienced professional, Sazerac provides extraordinary opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, entrepreneurial industry.

Job Description/Responsibilities

As the Senior Packaging SME, you will lead and support Capital Project initiatives across various sites, specializing in High Speed Bottling, Secondary Packaging, Finished Goods Storage, and Pallet handling Systems. This role provides technical leadership in developing efficient, World Class, high-quality production processes, and ensures adherence to industry and regulatory standards. Partnering with cross-functional teams, you will drive innovation in packaging and finished goods storage and help shape capabilities within our Global Engineering agenda.

Develop, Write, and Approve Company Functional Design Standards and determine gap analysis against those standards for all locations within Sazerac. Mentor junior engineers on skill development, work processes, and navigating change.

Provide Engineering and Technical expertise to support the High Speed Bottling, Secondary Packaging, Finished Goods Storage, and Pallet handling Operations, and as well as other Engineering Disciplines. As a member of the Strategic Operations Engineering Team this person is expected to support any company location with a Capital Project. That may include travel to any of the Sazerac locations.

Sets up each improvement project in PPT, ensuring all team members are added and assigned tasks completed to keep projects on time and under budget. Uses PPT to keep key stakeholders on track and informed of project updates.

Drive toward continuous improvement, growth, efficiency and cost savings. Creates project engineering processes and standards across the network to improve continuity, timelines, quality, adherence to construction and engineering best practices, and budget adherence.

Ensures High Speed Bottling, Secondary Packaging, Finished Goods Storage, and Pallet handling Systems operations meet regulatory requirements including OSHA, EPA and TTB regulations. Takes immediate corrective action when needed to stay in compliance

Participates in the PDS process, meeting expectations for reporting on learnings and using feedback from the process to ensure optimal outcomes for the role.

Design safety into all new bottling installations. Develop SOPs for all bottling operations that drive practices to reduce and eliminate workplace injuries.

Be the Subject Matter Expert in High-Speed Bottling, Secondary Packaging, Finished Goods Storage, and Pallet Handling Systems. Assess current Bottling Plants to identify gaps and develop world-class solutions. Design and run process simulations, performing risk assessments to eliminate system constraints. Create Functional Design Specifications (FDS) for High-Speed Bottling, Secondary Packaging, Finished Goods Storage, and Pallet Handling systems, equipment, and methods. Develop TCO and competitive bidding evaluation systems to identify key partners for executing the FDS.

Meets and exceeds customer expectations through the support of High Speed Bottling, Secondary…