Facilities Engineer III

About the role

The Facilities Engineer III leads and coordinates complex projects involving multiple disciplines for optical fiber manufacturing processes in the Wilmington plant. This includes improving understanding and control of these processes to meet manufacturing objectives.

Responsibilities

• Principal lead on one or more projects
• Define the scope, financial impact, key activities, and timeline for the projects
• Secure capital funding and manage spending within budgetary requirements
• Maintain and control the technical, cost, and time objectives of the projects
• Ensure coordination, interaction, and manage resource utilization of appropriate groups on projects
• Communicate plans, progress, and problems to all concerned parties
• Provide facilities technical leadership on one or more projects
• Ensure facilities needs are included in major projects
• Provide scope, cost and timing estimates for the facilities deliverables
• Implement the facilities portion of the project scope, either through direct leadership of the facilities work or through coaching/steering the project team
• Collaborate with other organizations that are involved in the projects
• Manage the plant capital portfolio and appropriations request process
• Track and report monthly spending and forecasts for all capital projects in the plant portfolio
• Serve as the plant expert on current requirements for appropriations requests and support other plant personnel in authoring capital requests
• Act as a plant consultant on problems involving delivery and integration of process services for the Wilmington plant, including pollution abatement, raw material delivery, facilities and structural systems
• Collaborate with division and corporate facilities teams to benchmark and share best practices related to facilities systems, raw material delivery, pollution abatement and sustainability improvements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 7+ years of experience (preferably facilities experience) or Bachelor’s degree in any field and 15+ years of engineering experience
• Experience working in manufacturing or industrial environments
• Experience working with and managing system process and controls for facilities and environmental systems
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Exceptional time management and organization skills
• Demonstrated ability to take projects from conception to commissioning, balancing several at a time
• Experience working with suppliers, contractors, technical staff
• Skilled at reading and interpreting drawings and piping and instrumentation diagrams
• Can identify potential problems and offer corrective or preventative actions

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to secure cooperative and effective performance from associates assigned to projects
• Maintain and value diversity / quality of personnel recruited, trained, and promoted
• Deep appreciation for the safety aspects of the Process Services design and the implementation
• Self-starter. Able to work alone or in teams equally well
• Ability to build relationships within cross functional groups; team building skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Able to manage large external teams of contractors/sub-contractors to achieve project objectives