Plant Engineering Manager

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Your role at Clorox:

The PEM leads the Engineering and Facilities team, overseeing their development and administrative budgets, while providing day-to-day manufacturing support to optimize plant performance. They manage capital and expense budgets, ensure project execution meets scope, schedule, cost, and requirements, and handle environmental compliance, technical documentation, fixed assets, facility infrastructure, security, fire protection, risk management, permits, and long-term site planning. The PEM reviews and ensures safety in capital and manufacturing improvement projects and is part of the Plant Leadership Team, coordinating resources and managing external consultants and contractors.

In this role, you will:

•  Ensure engineers and technical support resources are focused on influencing and delivering the Plant’s (customer’s) business results and objectives: Including productivity, operating efficiency and quality improvements

• Cost reduction; environmental compliance; safety; new products / product improvements, technical training, etc. Establish and effectively communicate technical work priorities with the plant organization.

• Critically review all engineering and technical work and provide appropriate feedback, guidance and direction to those responsible for execution.  

• Provide alignment with the technical approaches being recommended and implemented, including technical work being led /executed by others in non-engineering roles.

• Ensure conformance to Clorox Eng. Standards and safety/regulatory requirements.  Keep Division Engineering Manager apprised of significant /major equipment and technology selections and technical approaches being used.  Ownership of the plant’s technical documentation including all engineering drawings, studies, calculations, etc., including maintenance and updates in accordance with Company standards.  

• Develop and steward a plan to update technical documentation. 

• Follow established Clorox Capital Project Management practices and procedures including adherence to the Capital Decision Matrix, procurement practices, cost and schedule control, scope management, etc.  

• Accountable for all capital spending at the location.

• Ensure appropriate systems to monitor and control are in place and functional.  Prepare and conduct internal plant reviews, as well as develop/manage the plant’s annual and 3 year capital program.

• Provide quarterly updates in SAP of the latest “Planned Spending” for each budgeted or approved project, no later than the third week following the end of each quarter. Deliver quarterly cash flow forecast.  

• Prepare related one-time expense estimates and forecasts. Responsible for Plant Project (capital & expense) cash flows.

• Accountable for the mentoring and coaching of the plant’s engineering personnel, including those that may not directly report to the PEM. \

• Performance management for all Direct Reports (e.g. MyGPS, Objectives, IDP, Career Interest).  

• Utilize and apply the Engineers Guide to Career Development in the career planning process for engineering personnel.  

• Division Engineering Manager’s prior concurrence, schedule and lead “Capability Assessments” for individuals as appropriate.  Obtain Division Engineering Manager concurrence on hiring, promotion, filling of open positions and changes in responsibilities for plant engineering personnel.

• Periodically update Division Engineering Manager on the performance, development plans and career interests of plant engineering personnel.  

• Proactively identify engineering resource needs to support the operation and pending project work.  

• Work directly with OEM for project resource needs.  Advise Division Engineering Manager of any