Site Engineering Manager

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As our next Site Engineering Manager, reporting to our Head of Operations for Florence, KY, you will lead the engineering and maintenance function at a site with complex industrial processes, with the objective of achieving maximum plant availability and reliability in response to operational activity needs for the local unit.

This position is located in Florence, KY.

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for:

Strategy design and execution

• Provide input to the local operations business plan and related goals with regards to, e.g., engineering projects, production capacity, critical maintenance activities, changes in equipment, and spare parts inventory.
• Define Site Engineering annual targets and goals based on functional strategy and lead and monitor their achievement.

Function management

• Lead many maintenance & engineering teams, and contractors, working on different assignments within the engineering and maintenance fields.
• Work with global and regional engineering functions to ensure the analysis, planning and implementation of global strategies, plans or best practices.
• Establish site master plans to capture all Capex, engineering and maintenance plans and lead their execution to address internal customer requirements in the short, mid and long term.
• Provide input to global or regional Capex programs to anticipate impact on local activities and resources.
• Identify, propose and implement local Capex projects (when approved).
• Manage all routine engineering and maintenance activities, track progress against plan(s) and implement corrective actions in case of deviation.
• Apply best practices and continuous improvement programs to improve processes and the use of resources.
• Deliver the best engineering and maintenance services to clients through maintenance work, local projects and coordinate capital investments onsite.
• Maintain compliance of all assets with applicable legal or company standards, and harmonization of standards within the departments.
• Implement Group Engineering programs, guidelines and directives and organize regular trainings to ensure adherence to these and other guidelines/directives/standards (e.g. EHS).
• Maintain contact to local authorities.
• Propose budgets and levels of service for engineering and maintenance activities and build these within the approved limit(s).

People management

• Oversee the execution of annual human resources processes for the local Engineering & Maintenance teams and validate related results.
• Work with local operations, regional and global E&M management teams and HR business partner(s) to develop a local talent pipeline for the function.
• Guide the development and promotion of talents within and outside the function.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in complex industrialization and engineering projects, including building, process installation and utilities, from the design stage to hand-over.
• Knowledge of project management.
• Knowledge of TPM, KPI, Six Sigma, lean Manufacturing and project control tools.
• Knowledge of stakeholder management and communications.
• Knowledge of process mapping and design.
• Knowledge of EHS rules and guidelines.
• Knowledge of financial concepts (e.g. OPEX, CAPEX) and tools (e.g. SAP).

Required Qualifications:

• University degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• Plant engineering or maintenance certification.
• Overall work experience of 7 to 10 years in manufacturing or plant operations, including exposure to factory engineering and maintenance strategy and operational maintenance of production equipment.
• 2 to 5 years of progressive experience in people management

What We Can Offer You:

• Healthcare Plan:
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• High matching 401k plan
• Vacation days

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