Manufacturing Engineering Manager

This position is responsible for providing strategic and tactical leadership in the areas of Environmental, Health, and Safety within a manufacturing setting. The role involves overseeing a team focused on improving manufacturing processes, efficiencies, and overall throughput. The successful candidate will also be responsible for identifying and implementing equipment improvements and process systems changes to enhance the quality of the finished product. A Bachelor's degree in engineering and experience in a process engineering role are required qualifications for this position. Experience in wood products or paper manufacturing is highly desired.

• Provide strategic and tactical leadership in the areas of Environmental, Health, and Safety
• Provide hands-on leadership to a Manufacturing team focused on developing and improving manufacturing processes, efficiencies, and overall throughput
• Oversee a team focused on executing strategic initiatives to drive equipment reliability improvements and process improvements
• Value Stream mapping the processes required for identifying gaps and waste
• Lead the effort to identify, investigate, recommend and implement equipment improvements and process systems changes that will improve quality of the finished product
• Establish a financial engineering forecast and execute against the plan
• Drive projects to completion to provide a true economic return
• Improve and verify technical skill levels of all associates on the team
• Identify and address skill performance gaps within converting team
• Work with Centers of Excellence to influence Asset Reliability and Reliability Strategies (including spares, down day planning, lubrication, operator basic care routes, asset clean to inspect, etc.)
• Have an open mind with a questioning attitude to identify true root cause and implement countermeasure to eliminate failures

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering (specifically Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical)
• Five (5) years of experience in a process engineering role involving manufacturing, repair or modification, three (3) of which in a lead or supervisory role preferred
• Strong knowledge of process design and improvement
• Ability to define engineering work statements and provide accurate labor estimates
• Self-starting, detail-oriented, effective planner and project manager
• Specific knowledge of engineering workflows, configuration control, and change management
• Effective leader with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Familiarity with continuous improvement methods
• Experience with leading teams of technical people and managing complex projects
• Preferred: Experience working within a paper or wood pellet plant with mechanical/electrical engineering responsibilities
• Preferred: Experience with soft skills

• Defined engineering work statements and accurate labor estimates
• Self-starting, detail-oriented, effective planner and project manager
• Specific knowledge of engineering workflows, configuration control, and change management
• Effective leader with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Familiarity with continuous improvement methods
• Experience with leading teams of technical people and managing complex projects
• Experience working within a paper or wood pellet plant with mechanical/electrical engineering responsibilities (preferred qualification)
• Experience with software tools such as AX, Power BI, Microsoft 365 (preferred qualification)
• Occasional travel required
• Ability to work in outdoor environments and extreme temperatures
• Willingness to work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment
• Strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment
• Physical requirements such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing/pulling, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Equal employment opportunity (EEO) principles followed by the company