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 serving multiple industries. The Senior Manager, Operating Unit Engineering – Beverage provides technical leadership and engineering support across multiple gable-top carton manufacturing facilities, driving safety, quality, operational performance, equipment reliability, process standardization, and continuous improvement. The role also leads specialized printing and tooling initiatives, process optimization, capital projects, commissioning, and commercialization efforts.
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 with at least 5 years supporting carton converting, packaging, printing, or paperboard manufacturing operations
- Up to 75% travel to manufacturing facilities, suppliers, and customer locations as required
- Experience with gable-top beverage packaging preferred
Benefits
- Bonus
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Comprehensive medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts
- Paid vacation
- Sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
- Wellness program
- Comprehensive benefits and well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health
- Opportunities for advancement
- Skills development
- Advanced education programs
- Training and development programs and courses available through MyLearning
- Company and industry training curricula
- Support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union)
- A Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization
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