Director of Engineering

THE KRAFT GROUP • Worcester, MA

9d • $212,000 - $250,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Engineering provides strategic leadership for engineering, maintenance, facilities, and reliability initiatives across multiple corrugated manufacturing plants. This position develops a unified maintenance and asset reliability strategy, aligns engineering resources across facilities, and ensures maintenance efforts are coordinated to maximize equipment availability, safety, productivity, and cost effectiveness. The role partners closely with plant leadership to standardize best practices, prioritize capital improvements, and drive continuous improvement across the enterprise.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field required.
• 12+ years of progressive engineering and maintenance leadership experience in manufacturing required.
• Experience in corrugated packaging or related high-volume manufacturing required.
• Strong knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, TPM, predictive maintenance, CMMS, and asset management required.
• Experience leading multi-site engineering or maintenance organizations required.
• Knowledge of capital project management and equipment lifecycle planning.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Must have attention to detail and focused concentration.
• Must be able to learn new tasks and complete tasks independently.
• Must be able to make timely decisions in the context of the workflow.
• Must possess strong organizational skills, ability to multi-task and responsiveness.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a related field preferred.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an annual enterprise-wide engineering, maintenance, and reliability strategy with defined targets for uptime, maintenance cost, planned maintenance compliance, safety, and capital project execution.
• Develop, manage, and meet an annual maintenance and engineering budget to include capital investment, maintenance and repair vendors, asset replacement, and internal labor cost. This will be measured in part through overall effect on revenue, EBITA, and year-over-year ROI on the business
• Standardize preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance programs across all facilities, including common preventative maintenance compliance targets, inspection standards, and CMMS reporting requirements.
• Act as a key member of the Operations leadership team providing counsel to the VP of Operations and C-Suite leaders on all aspects of maintenance, reliability, and engineering
• Coordinate engineering resources and maintenance priorities to complete approved enterprise initiatives on schedule, within budget, and according to defined operational requirements.
• Establish, monitor, and report monthly KPIs for equipment uptime, maintenance costs, PM compliance, asset reliability, MTBF, MTTR, and maintenance backlog to drive continuous improvement.
• Provide executive oversight of enterprise root cause analyses (RCAs) for significant equipment failures and implement sustainable corrective actions ensuring corrective actions are implemented, validated, and recurrence rates are reduced through documented follow-up.
• Partner with Operations to improve equipment performance, throughput, safety, and product quality using agreed-upon metrics such as downtime, OEE, scrap, safety incidents, and customer quality defects
• Oversee enterprise-wide capital planning for equipment modernization and engineering support for major projects, including capital roadmap from business case through design, vendor selection, installation, commissioning, startup, and post-project performance
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement across all engineering and maintenance functions by standardizing maintenance planning, CMMS governance, reliability processes, and performance management practices.
• Utilize enterprise maintenance and reliability metrics to identify opportunities, eliminate inefficiencies, reduce reactive maintenance, improve asset performance, and drive operational excellence across all manufacturing facilities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable safety, environmental, and engineering standards, measured by audit results, corrective-action closure rates, regulatory findings, incident trends, and timely resolution of identified deficiencies.
• Build organizational capability, measured by completion of annual succession plans, leadership development goals, technical training completion rates, bench-strength assessments, retention of key roles, and improvement against workforce capability gaps.
• Special projects and assignments as business dictates
• Responsible for the maintenance, creation and control of all personally identifiable information or any other information protected by any Confidentiality or Privacy Standards or Company Policies that you have access or knowledge of, including but not limited to any state or federal regulations including HIPAA

Benefits

• Bonus Eligible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director