Sr Manager- Operations Engineering (Remote)

Company Statement

Graham Packaging is a people, planet and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life. For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here. At Graham, we are united by a clear vision. We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce. We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth.

Overview

Working across the Beverages North American plant network, the Operations Engineering Manager will lead and direct a team of Operations Engineers to work with plant operations staff of each assigned plant to drive operations excellence and assist the plant with reaching its operational goals, strategies and metrics.  Specific focus will be in the Maintenance & Reliability Execution Element of the Graham Operating System which includes proactive, preventive, and predictive maintenance as well as optimizing and replicating best practices.  Active engagement, training and development of the plant Technical Teams will be critical the success.

 

The Operations Engineering Manager will also be responsible for leadership of Focus Plant / PIT Teams process withing the vertical.  Collaboration with other verticals to share best practices and changes in process will be critical to success.  Leadership and direction of the Focus / PIT Teams throughout their evolution.

 

Job requires a high level of discipline in the development and execution of key multi-disciplinary impactful projects to deliver the required results in the assigned plants.  Use of and development of scope of work, bidding, business case, timelines and project tracking is critical to the role. 

 

Close relationships and resource sharing with other functional teams within the vertical will also be critical for success.

 

This position reports to the Vice-President of Engineering for the Beverages Business Unit.

Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

• Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) / Technical Authority for one or more of GPC’s critical processes.
• Coach, lead and mentor a team of Specialist Engineers.
• Leads complex multi-disciplinary projects of critical importance to GPC.
• Leads significant projects to support technical innovation.
• Leads multi-discipline teams to solve highly complex technical problems through the use of critical problem solving tools such as the A3 and 8D processes.
• Acts as leader for assigned plant reviews by GPC’s leadership.
• Works with Teams to shape and develop strategic decisions.
• Works with assigned plants to develop capital spending plans to exceed the plants AOP commitments.
• Develops scope of work, bid documents, and assembles and presents business case to GPC leadership for key plant improvement initiatives.
• Uses project management tools such as FMEA, MS Excel, MS Project, and action lists to track successful project execution to project closure including clear delivery of the project commitments and lessons learned.
• Manage projects, including timelines, resources and budgets
• Develops positive working relationships to effectively coordinate work activities.
• Uses strong influencing and communication skills to understand unique site needs and to effectively partner in delivering solutions.

• Documents issues and creates action plans to solve issues in a short term and long term manner.
• Works with plant and corporate support groups to drive improvement projects.
• Works with OEM, and third party equipment vendors to develop technical solutions to persistent mechanical, quality, and process issues.
• Participates in Maintenance Standardization efforts across the business units.
• Analyzes equipment and functional location work history data in the SAPPM system to assess opportunities to increase reliability