Corporate Director of Engineering (Food CPG Industry 4.0)
Location
Tennessee | United States
Job description
This is a remote position.
Our client a Global Food CPG company is seeking a Corporate Level Director of Engineering who is passionate about discovering, developing, and implementing complex technical solutions across different product categories with the FoodBev / CPG industry.
This role will lead corporate engineering activities across a wide network of plants. In this role you will lead engineering strategies for multiple product categories, successfully identifying, developing, and implementing business growth and productivity projects as well as technology programs across the Enterprise.
You will own and lead a portfolio of business-critical projects following a disciplined engineering approach from concept definition to vertical start up, including technology identification, validation, machine reliability analysis, new line design, modifications of existing assets, and developing robust technical solutions to address a range of complex manufacturing issues. You will also identify new breakthrough technologies and operational solutions that will bring our business categories to the future. You will also analyze ways to maximize efficiency and yields, optimize manufacturing costs, own capital expenditure, project management, equipment evaluation, operation performance improvement, start-up and new process validation. The role will directly interface with Manufacturing Directors, Engineering Directors, VP of Engineering, Information Systems, Research & Development, Business leaders and other technical functions.
Deliverables:
- Lead the discovery, development, qualification, and successful operational implementation of manufacturing technologies and breakthrough technical solutions to drive business growth and gross margin improvement across multiple product categories.
- Lead the justification, establishment, and implementation of capital projects from inception through completion. Initiate technical concepts, develop designs incorporating the optimal technical solutions, estimate and manage costs, formulate justifications, coordinate project/program executions, support line startups, and establish systems to train required personnel on new technologies.
- Lead standard engineering work processes and champion the best engineering practices for improved performance. Analyze with manufacturing teams and other functions the operational performance impacts of new equipment or equipment modifications across current operations.
- Effectively lead, develop, and allocate resources across a team of talented engineers to identify viable project opportunities, and properly validate and implement breakthrough technical in-plant solutions.
- Closely collaborate with R&D Process & Packaging, Quality Assurance, Safety, Information Systems, Manufacturing and Business Unit Teams among other functions on the definition of technology solutions and standardization opportunities across our product categories.
- Participate in business category, operational, R&D and Engineering project and business reviews as required. Communicate and inform operational and business leaders of related work through scheduling, plant and business meetings and required project status reviews.
- Lead technology discovery efforts across the industry and develop viable technology solutions adapted to our manufacturing processes.
- Demonstrate thorough knowledge of capital project administration procedures
Required:
- BSc degree Chemical / Mechanical / Electrical Engineering with 20+ years of experience in the Food, Beverage, CPGs and/or similar industries.
- Proven engineering leadership experience packaging and related food processes across diverse product categories.
- Demonstrated experience in leading the selection, design, specification, and implementation of new product manufacturing technologies and packaging platforms, including modification of existing operational assets.
- Demonstrated experience in leading front-end engineering and design activities, concurrently with multiple project executions across a complex network of plants.
- Proven capital investment strategic leadership experience with clear impact on the company’s top & bottom-line business metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to follow advanced technical validation and reliability engineering tools to assess technical risks, predictive analytics (FMEA, Statistical Process Analysis, etc.) and project readiness processes and tools to deliver Vertical Start-Ups on complex technologies at plant level.
- Experience in Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) environments and EEM Pillar systems, continuous improvement methodologies through equipment design, driving process optimization.
- Experience leading the design and construction of brownfield expansions / greenfield manufacturing plants.
Additional experience is helpful but not required:
- Master of Business Administration or similar advanced business degree will be preferred.
- Knowledge of Reliability Engineering (RE) tools & process improvement methodologies.
- Experience in Industry 4.0 solutions definition and implementation.
- Experience in developing new process / packing technologies and standard equipment platforms in close partnership with leading edge equipment manufacturers and/or technology innovation groups.
- Experience working in international / global markets.
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