Plant Engineering Manager - Dart Container - Conyers, GA
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Job Information:
Company: Dart Container
Manage engineering, reliability, maintenance and facilities operations in a facility containing multiple, complex operations with 600 or less employees with a focus on meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for safety, quality, production, maintenance, efficiency, and service.
Day-to-Day Role:
- 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 procedures
- 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
Core Skills and Qualifications:
The ideal candidate must possess all of the following:
- 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 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 production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
- Understanding of reliability tools and strategies including direct experience facilitating Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) or Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Advanced knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of products
- Knowledge of business and management principles specifically as it relates to maintenance planning, resource allocation, cost analysis and budgeting, people management, and leadership guidance
- Excellent verbal and written skills necessary in order to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams, and to explain difficult situations
- Ability to communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences
- Ability to utilize and train employees of varying levels/skills on technology, processes and procedures
- Demonstration of minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on-going communications about safety and quality issues
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Ten (10) years of engineering, facilities, machinery maintenance and/or reliability experience
- Five (5) years specific experience performing maintenance and equipment reliability
- Degree in mechanical, electrical or industrial engineering
- Experience managing multi-shift or continuous operations
- Paper converting, chemical or plastics processing, or packaging industrial experience
- Lean manufacturing experience
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