Plant Engineer

Description

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row. It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future.

LOCATION: COE

SUMMARY: Provides engineering duties as assigned by Plant Manager and/or Operations Director. Responsible for overseeing new equipment installations as well as modifications existing equipment as necessary for the advancement of productivity within the manufacturing confines of the plant. Troubleshoot and repair equipment problems that effect productivity of the manufacturing group. Be involved with process improvements providing input in production problem solving. Manage the maintenance department providing guidance, instruction, and admonishment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Assure good engineering practices are provided in the design of all new and existing equipment as well as building systems.
• Active in troubleshooting production problems.
• Versed in PLC programming.
• Manage new equipment installations and startups.
• Design, install and startup equipment modifications.
• Negotiate price and purchase equipment and services as needed. 
• Draft Capital Expenditure Requisitions – gather information for justification of capital, obtain cost of capital items.
• Fill out preliminary capital expenditure requisitions.
• Fill our formal capital expenditure requisitions.
• Provide management of the maintenance department as well as outside contractor.
• Assure adequate utilities to provide for the smooth operation of the manufacturing equipment and ancillary systems (i.e. incineration, building heat, etc.)
• Assure divisional compliance to all OSHA standards.
• Must be involved in plant manufacturing improvement efforts. Examples being QCO, press speed and utilization.
• In this described position, you are required to be a member of APC’s Center of Excellence (COE) Leadership Team. The COE Leadership Team has been designated as our Food Safety Team.
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:  

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university; and four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or he