Sr. Engineering Manager, Beverage Carton
About the role
Position Summary: The Senior Manager, Operating Unit Engineering – Beverage is responsible for providing technical leadership and engineering support across multiple gable-top carton manufacturing facilities. This role drives safety, quality, operational performance, equipment reliability, process standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives throughout the operating unit. The position serves as the technical authority for Lithographic Offset Printing, Flexographic Printing, HD Flexographic Printing, rotary and flatbed score-and-cut tooling, and water-based, UV, and Electron Beam (EB) ink technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering activities across beverage carton manufacturing operations; drive safety, quality, throughput, yield, uptime, and scrap reduction initiatives; provide technical leadership to plant engineering and operations teams; support capital projects, equipment commissioning, and process optimization efforts.
- Drive OEE improvement, downtime reduction, yield improvement, scrap reduction, changeover optimization, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
- Develop scopes of work, equipment specifications, business cases, and implementation plans; support FAT/SAT activities, commissioning, startup, and commercialization of new products and technologies.
- Success Metrics: Safety performance, print quality, OEE improvement, scrap reduction, downtime reduction, capital project execution, tooling optimization, and successful implementation of engineering standards across manufacturing sites.
- Travel: Up to 75% travel to manufacturing facilities, suppliers, and customer locations as required.
Skills
Specialized Technical Leadership: Provide subject matter expertise in Lithographic Offset Printing, Conventional Flexographic Printing, HD Flexographic Printing, Rotary Die Cutting and Scoring, Flatbed Die Cutting and Scoring Tooling, Gable-Top Carton Converting, Water-Based Ink Systems, UV Ink Systems, EB Ink and Coating Systems, and Color Management Processes.
Process Engineering Responsibilities: Optimize print quality, color consistency, registration control, tooling performance, carton dimensional accuracy, coating performance, and manufacturing efficiency. Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for process defects and quality issues.
Requirements
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline. Minimum 10 years of manufacturing engineering experience with at least 5 years supporting carton converting, packaging, printing, or paperboard manufacturing operations. Experience with gable-top beverage packaging preferred.
Benefits
The benefits for this role include 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 and wellness program.
With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.
Community Engagement: At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.
Training and Development: We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.