Senior Manager, Engineering

Senior Manager, Engineering# Senior Manager, Engineering Stony Point - Stony Point, NC 28678## Overview Position Type Full Time Job Shift Day Travel  Percentage Up to 25%## Description
** SUMMARY OF POSITION
** The Senior Maintenance and Engineering Manager is responsible for setting and leading the strategic direction for the installation, modification, repair, and upkeep of:
* Facility and grounds infrastructure;
* Production, support, and pollution control equipment to maximizing reliability; and
* Ensuring proper operation to comply with applicable city, state, and federal regulations and company policies and procedures.

The scope includes managing maintenance and automation related staffing and employee development.
** ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
** include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
* Essential Duties and Responsibilities  + Multiple plant maintenance team responsibility.  + Supervises Maintenance Managers (reference Maintenance Manager job description).  + Supervises the Engineering Services and Automation teams and MRO Clerk.  + Defines the strategic direction for the maintenance and automation functions within the facility:
- Develops, aligns, and implements strategies to:

* Maximize equipment reliability balanced with cost.

* Maximize maintenance and automation technician “wrench time”.

* Continuously improve maintenance operations and support of manufacturing process equipment aligned with plant continuous improvement goals and objectives.

* Explore and identify potential innovative technologies to improve plant and equipment operations, reduce cost, support corporate sustainability goals, and equipment reliability.

* Define spare parts inventory strategy, balancing downtime with cost and supplier lead time.

* Continuously increase the skills and relevant knowledge of the maintenance team. Coordinates career development program for maintenance employees. Provides leadership in assessment, planning, and follow-up evaluation of staff, participating in self and employee development.

* Development of multi-year capital expenditure strategies.

* Implementing energy-saving measures and sustainability practices in maintenance operations.

* Maximize the effectiveness of project management.

* Ensures maintenance team demonstrates effective teamwork with plant personnel.  + Accountable for maintenance related spend vs budget.  + Accountable for maintenance employee knowledge and correct application of safety policies and procedures, such as ECP, LOTO, pre-use inspections, confined space entry, working at heights, etc.  + Manage the analysis of maintenance data to identify trends in equipment reliability that affects efficiency/OEE, cost, quality, plant capacity, and production throughput.

Report key maintenance KPIs on a periodic basis, including action plans to improve areas where goals are not being met.  + Lead/manage system criticality assessments, as well as RCA’s and FMEA’s on equipment failures that significantly affect product quality, equipment uptime, and/or plant capacity.  + Provide subject matter expertise during the equipment or facility design review process to ensure reliability and safety are incorporated into new and current modifications or installations.  

+ Periodically inspects jobs in process and at completion to ensure that standards of workmanship and safety are maintained.  + Accountable for ensuring that all engineering and maintenance activities are in compliance with OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements on covered processes, if applicable to plant.  + Leads smaller scale capital projects for the facility, coordinates with corporate engineering for larger scale capital projects.  

+ Effectively manages capital spending plan; includes writing capital requests, developing bid scopes, managing contractors, ROI justification, etc.## Qualifications
** QUALIFICATIONS
* * To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with…