Engineering Manager (Gypsum)

About the role

The Engineering Manager will lead an organization that drives the fundamental understanding of equipment systems and their impact on product quality and plant efficiency. This role will interface with multiple engineering disciplines, Maintenance, and Operations to ensure equipment systems meet production requirements and plant key initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction to Engineering and Mill Operations to ensure the plant is meeting the objectives in safety, quality, innovation, and plant performance.
• Lead technical support for project planning and execution, as well as troubleshooting electrical controls components to minimize downtime and maximize process efficiencies across all plant operations.
• Leading an engineering & maintenance team aligned with our Principle Based Management (PBM®) Values while continuously developing your own personal knowledge regarding PBM Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering capabilities in alignment with the PBM Role of a Supervisor
• Safety Leadership: Accountable for the safety performance of the engineering area while promoting personal accountability for working safely and addressing safety concerns in all areas of the mill department
• Capital Projects: Provide coaching and mentoring to project engineers on planning, commissioning, execution, and close-out best practices
• Able to manage, prioritize, and deliver on a portfolio of projects and group initiatives
• Seek and apply knowledge of new technology available, industry trends, and development to improve all aspects of plant automation
• Innovating in a way that eliminates waste
• Share knowledge externally and internally and leverage improvements across the plant to encourage transformation and value creation
• Use knowledge to develop and carry out objectives, solve problems, and be able to respond to short-term as well as long term department and mill goals
• Help direct reports understand who their customers are and how their work directly impacts operations and mill production
• Demonstrate results by working effectively with other plant leaders and resources to improve year over year results
• Meet regularly with direct reports and other teams as needed to increase knowledge and improve skills
• Business Culture: Embrace Market Based Management philosophy and help continue to change the culture through tools, and processes available to create long term value with mutually beneficial outcomes

Requirements

• 5 or more years of maintenance or engineering experience within an industrial management, manufacturing, or production environment
• Knowledgeable in the areas of PLC's, conveyor systems, breakers, boilers, hydraulic and pneumatic systems
• Able to read mechanical, structural and electrical drawings
• Experience using the following Microsoft Office Software: Excel – (sorting data, creating tables and creating graphs); Outlook – (scheduling tasks, calendar invitations and general professional correspondence); Word – (document creation/editing); PowerPoint – (presentation creation/editing); and Project (creating a project plan, adding tasks, resources and milestones)
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Industrial Management or in a technical field Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical engineering
• Previous experience working within a gypsum facility