Head of Technical Operations

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Full Time Morgantown, WV, US

The Head of Technical Operations provides leadership for Environmental Health & Safety, Facilities & Utilities, and Process & Automation Engineering across our aseptic beverage manufacturing facility. This role is responsible for building technical capability across the organization while ensuring safe operations, strong process performance, effective automation systems, and successful execution of facility and infrastructure initiatives.

The position partners closely with Maintenance to strengthen asset performance, eliminate chronic losses, and support long-term operational readiness. This role provides strategic direction for Process & Automation Engineering, ensuring manufacturing processes, controls systems, and technical standards support throughput, yield, process stability, and future business growth.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the Process & Automation Engineering function, including process engineering, controls, automation strategy, system architecture, technical standards, and resource alignment.
• Own blending, aseptic processing and filling, and downline capability, manufacturing throughput, yield, process stability, and overall production performance across the facility.
• Establish engineering standards, operating parameters, best practices, and priorities for process optimization, automation improvements, commissioning activities, and technical capability development.
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance & Reliability to resolve chronic manufacturing losses and improve operational performance.
• Lead the facility Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) program, including documentation, implementation planning, production readiness requirements, and evaluation of partial LOTO and equipment break-in scenarios.
• Lead facility safety infrastructure initiatives, including material-handling and pedestrian safety, confined-space documentation, tank motor maintenance methods, and commissioning safety signoffs.
• Review and approve EH&S programs, procedures, and processes to ensure expectations are practical, documented, compliant, and consistently followed.
• Create and own organization of structure of documentation and naming conventions within sharepoint. This includes, drawings, P&’s, pin charts, commissioning documents, work instructions, programs, procedures, and processes
• Lead and manage the Facilities team, including work prioritization, resource planning, team development, facility maintenance activities, utilities, wastewater systems, and contractor coordination.
• Create and manage facility shutdown plans, coordinating activities across Maintenance, Engineering, Operations, Facilities, and Technical Integration.
• Own the planning, execution, coordination, and performance of building, utility, facility, infrastructure, and capital improvement projects.
• Manage capital expenditure budgets, project documentation, approvals, forecasts, schedules, risks, contractor performance, and status reporting. Ensure all documentation is updated properly to reflect all changes.
• Develop and manage the technical training strategy, budget, schedules, qualification standards, and skills matrices for Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Facilities, and Engineering.
• Perform other duties as assigned while ensuring compliance with SQF, Food Safety, and all applicable regulatory and company requirements

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Leads the strategic and day-to-day workflow of Technical Operations resources
• Recruits, interviews, develops, coaches, and supports Technical Operations team members.
• Delegates work based on expertise, risk, priorities, workload, and timing.
• Establishes clear expectations and follows up on commitments, documentation, and results.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental health and safety, facilities management, construction management, or a related field preferred.

Experience & Skills

• 10 years or more of related engineering experience required.
• 5-7 years of experience in managing capital projects, budgets, and timelines for engineering and maintenance-related initiatives required
• Manufacturing experience required; food, beverage, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated manufacturing experience required.
• Experience leading EH&S, facilities, utilities, capital projects, or technical operations in a…