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. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering activities for blown film extrusion and related processes, providing technical leadership and driving operational improvements across multiple manufacturing facilities.
Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with company safety standards, engineering standards, and operational procedures
- Lead engineering activities across assigned operating unit manufacturing operations. Subject matter expertise for LLDPE, HDPE, MDPE, and barrier film structures including nylon-based constructions
- Technical authority for inline flexographic printing and roll-to-roll flexographic printing operations. Lead troubleshooting for complex operational, technical, process, and reliability issues across manufacturing sites
- Technical leadership for inline converting systems, shuttle bag machines, rotary bag machines, wicket bag operations, sealing systems, perforation systems, stacking systems, registration control systems, and downstream bag converting technologies
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership, coaching, training, capability-building, and support for plant engineering teams across plants
- Drive engineering performance across plants, including uptime, throughput, yield, scrap reduction, and operational reliability. Partner with Center of Excellence teams to drive adoption and implementation of enterprise engineering standards, tools, governance, and best practices across manufacturing sites
- Lead execution of capital projects within the operating unit. Develop equipment specifications, project scopes, technical justifications, and implementation plans. Lead equipment evaluations, FAT/SAT activities, startup support, commissioning activities, and technology implementation projects
- Partner with Plant Operations teams to support manufacturing readiness, startup stabilization, process performance, and operational improvement initiatives
- Perform additional duties as assigned
Skills
- 5+ years of manufacturing engineering, process engineering, reliability engineering, or technical operations experience
- Experience supporting high-volume manufacturing operations across 5 - 8 plants
- Experience improving operational performance related to throughput, uptime, reliability, yield, scrap reduction, and process capability
- Experience supporting process troubleshooting, operational stabilization, commissioning, startup, and manufacturing readiness initiatives
- Experience supporting execution of capital projects within manufacturing operations
- Experience driving engineering standardization and best practice adoption across manufacturing operations
- Strong technical problem-solving, troubleshooting, and operational support capability
- Strong communication, organizational, and cross-functional coordination capability
- Ability to coach, train, and support plant engineering teams across 5 - 8 plants
- Proficiency using common office technology and tools
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline highly preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastics Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical discipline
- Blown film extrusion, multilayer coextrusion, polyethylene processing, barrier film technologies, flexographic printing, bag manufacturing, wicket operations, shuttle bag machines, rotary bag machines, capital project management, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement leadership
- Proficiency using common office technology and tools
Benefits
- Bonus
- 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
- Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union)
- Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization
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