Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries. The Senior Manager, Operating Unit Engineering – Beverage is responsible for providing technical leadership and engineering support across multiple gable-top carton manufacturing facilities, driving safety, quality, operational performance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering activities across beverage carton manufacturing operations; drive safety, quality, throughput, yield, uptime, and scrap reduction initiatives; provide technical leadership to plant engineering and operations teams; support capital projects, equipment commissioning, and process optimization efforts
- Provide subject matter expertise in Lithographic Offset Printing, Conventional Flexographic Printing, HD Flexographic Printing, Rotary Die Cutting and Scoring, Flatbed Die Cutting and Scoring Tooling, Gable-Top Carton Converting, Water-Based Ink Systems, UV Ink Systems, EB Ink and Coating Systems, and Color Management Processes
- Optimize print quality, color consistency, registration control, tooling performance, carton dimensional accuracy, coating performance, and manufacturing efficiency. Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for process defects and quality issues
- Drive OEE improvement, downtime reduction, yield improvement, scrap reduction, changeover optimization, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies
- Develop scopes of work, equipment specifications, business cases, and implementation plans. Support FAT/SAT activities, commissioning, startup, and commercialization of new products and technologies
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline
- Minimum 10 years of manufacturing engineering experience
- At least 5 years supporting carton converting, packaging, printing, or paperboard manufacturing operations
- Experience with gable-top beverage packaging
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Paid vacation, and sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
- Wellness program
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health
- Training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning
- Company and industry training curricula
- Support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union)
- Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization
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