Plant Engineering Manager - Lithonia

Plant Engineering Manager - Lithonia Overview

Location :

United States, Lithonia, Georgia

Job 168510

Salary Negotiable

Our client, a leading manufacturer of disposable food packaging products, is seeking a Plant Engineering Manager to join their team in Lithonia, GA.

• Manage and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers.

• Take ownership and demonstrate leadership necessary to achieve goals specific to Safety, Quality, Service, Efficiency and Employee Development

• Monitor KPI’s anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of targets

• Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)

• Provides management of engineering services for the installation, maintenance, and improvement of machinery, equipment and facilities

• Troubleshoot, analyze, identify, evaluate, propose, implement, and document maintenance plans and performance metrics:

• Failure, analysis, and corrective action procedure

• Equipment capacities and risks; and

• Other engineering solutions

• Develop and implement of preventive, predictive, and autonomous maintenance plans

• Investigate root-cause for repetitive damage and failure rates, and calculate costs that do not meet or follow the maintenance plans

• Evaluate, recommend, and acquire tools for use, including process analysis software, and other physical tools and resources specific to reliability and maintenance improvement

• Lead training efforts to ensure maintenance technicians have needed resources for standard operating procedures (SOP’s), work instructions, specialty tools, and updated Preventive Maintenance (PM) kits

• Sets priorities for maintenance backlog and oversees long-range and short-range maintenance schedules.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives

• Responsible for evaluating, installing and testing new equipment

• Ensures that maintenance standards are compliant with statutory health and safety regulations.

• Direct teams to assess progress, analyze problems, facilitate solutions, identify resources and adjust plans as needed

• Ensure that objectives are achieved at the lowest cost consistent with quality requirements

• Identify and recommend short- and long-term business strategies, understand and drive industry best practices

• Develop and convey broad, advanced conceptual ideas, and propose and persuade several diverse stakeholders, including senior manufacturing leadership

• Establish and communicate department goals

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on applicable machinery, equipment and facility for cross functional projects

• Understand, support and follow management expectations in alignment with company values

• Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of staff

• Responsible for employee development, discipline, performance appraisals, and administration of policies

• Review staff levels to ensure they are adequate, and resources are effectively allocated to meet short- and long-term objectives

• Make recommendations regarding staffing decisions

• Conduct or participate in the interview process with new candidates.

• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in engineering or related field and seven (7) years of engineering, facilities and/or machinery maintenance experience

• Seven (7) years of progressive supervisory experience

• Two (2) years specific experience performing maintenance and equipment reliability

• Displays strong interpersonal skills and is accessible and approachable

• Demonstrated project management experience by having successfully managed and completed a large, complex engineering project

• Advanced knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various products

• Advanced knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in…