Engineering Manager

Department:
Operations/Production/Manufacturing

Full-time or Part-time:
Full-Time

Job Type: Employee

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an ever changing world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come.

And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

Job title: Engineering Manager
Business group and business unit: Amcor Flexibles EMEA, Protein BU
Function: Operations
Location: Swansea
Reports to: Plant General Manager
Advertising legal entity: Amcor Flexibles Swansea
Employing legal entity: Amcor Flexibles Swansea
Contract type: Permanent

The Engineering Manager is accountable for the safe, compliant and cost-effective performance of the site’s engineering, maintenance, utilities and capital-project activities. The role leads the engineering team and develops a proactive asset-management and reliability strategy that improves equipment availability, reduces operational risk and loss, controls cost and supports delivery of the plant business plan.

Working closely with Operations, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), Quality, Finance, Procurement and other functions, the Engineering Manager ensures that engineering standards, statutory obligations, maintenance systems and capital investments are effectively governed and delivered. The role promotes Amcor’s strategy, vision, mission and core values and helps build a high-performance, continuous-improvement culture.

• Leadership of the site engineering and maintenance function, including team capability, resource planning, objectives and performance.
• Ownership of the site engineering, maintenance and asset-reliability strategy.
• Governance of engineering safety, compliance, statutory inspections and technical standards.
• Management of the engineering operating budget, maintenance expenditure and assigned capital investment.
• Accountability for plant, equipment, utilities, facilities and supporting infrastructure within the agreed site scope.
• Oversight of maintenance planning, scheduling, breakdown response, engineering records, critical spares and contractor activity.
• Leadership of the site engineering capital programme and delivery of assigned capital projects.

• Act as a visible safety leader and ensure that safety is the first consideration in all engineering decisions and activities.
• Work with the EHS Manager and operational leaders to maintain effective engineering policies, standards, risk controls and safe systems of work.
• Ensure robust controls for isolation, permit-to-work activities, contractor management, machinery safety, engineering modifications and management of change.
• Maintain compliance with applicable statutory inspection, equipment-safety and engineering requirements, ensuring actions are recorded and closed promptly.
• Ensure…