Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop direct-reporting early-career site engineers (Environmental, Process Safety, and Project Engineering), providing structured technical direction, review, and coaching.
• Build technical capability, standard work, and long-term bench strength within an early-career engineering team.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for technical integrity at the site, including engineering standards, specifications, and design practices, with final technical approval authority.
• This role includes accountability for site environmental engineering and permitting support, ensuring environmental compliance through oversight of early-career engineering execution.
• Partner with Project Engineering and Project Managers while retaining authority for technical scope and change control.
• Own technical governance of the Site 5-Year Capital Plan, including front-end loading (FEL), technical scope definition, and design approval, while delegating day-to-day planning and project development to an early-career project engineer.
• Provide oversight and accountability for the Site Process Safety Management (PSM) program, with day-to-day ownership and administration assigned to an early-career process safety engineer. Ensure PHAs, DHAs, MOCs, and other PSM compliance activities are technically sound, appropriately staffed, reviewed, and closed in accordance with regulatory and company requirements.
• Collaborate with Operations to translate operating needs into sound engineering solutions and with Maintenance & Reliability to eliminate repeat failures.
• Exercise authority to stop work for technical, safety, or PSM concerns when required.
• Foster a culture where safety is a core value, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, and promoting a positive safety mindset among all employees. Establishes clear expectations and demonstrates commitment to safety through actions and words.
• Retain final technical decision-making and approval authority for engineering, PSM, and capital project deliverables at the site.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience in chemical or process manufacturing
• 3+ years of engineering leadership or supervisory experience
• 5+ years of capital project experience providing technical leadership and engineering scope ownership for projects >$2MM
• Experience serving as technical authority in a PSM-regulated manufacturing environment
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, NFPA, and applicable engineering standards