Plant Engineer

Johns Manville•Hillsboro, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As our Plant Engineer, you’ll lead the maintenance and engineering function for a single manufacturing facility—owning Capex planning, driving equipment reliability, and empowering a skilled maintenance team to keep production running safely, efficiently, and cost‑effectively. If you love solving complex problems, optimizing assets, and mentoring people, this role is built for you.

Requirements

Education & experience: Bachelor’s in engineering; 6+ years in manufacturing project engineering and 2+ years in a leadership role.
Technical depth: Strong knowledge of mechanical systems; working knowledge of environmental/safety rules and regulations.
Systems fluency: Hands‑on experience with SAP Plant Maintenance, Project Systems, and Procure‑to‑Pay.
Leadership & communication: Proven ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders, and communicate clearly (written and verbal).
Toolbox: Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook; expert problem‑solving and analytical skills.
Ways of working: Independent and collaborative; comfortable interfacing across all levels and functions.
Physical & travel: Ability to lift up to 25 lbs; minimal travel (≈2 weeks/year).
Work environment typical of manufacturing (heat/cold, noise, heights, moving equipment, dust/mist/fumes; extensive walking/climbing).
Incumbent must be physically able to perform essential job functions.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Nice To Haves

Lean/Six Sigma experience.

Responsibilities

Lead the Maintenance team: Manage staffing, coaching, and daily operations; set direction and deploy resources.
Own the plan: Build long‑term Capex strategies; manage projects and report monthly on capital and maintenance spend.
Schedule & execute: Oversee daily/weekly/monthly maintenance activities and PMs; keep work orders flowing and priorities clear.
Improve reliability: Track equipment performance, implement upgrades, and boost OEE with data‑driven decisions.
Drive productivity: Partner with Plant Leadership to streamline processes, reduce downtime, and eliminate waste.
Manage energy & assets: Steward plant energy programs and maintain capital assets for lifecycle value.
Champion compliance: Ensure environmental and safety compliance across the facility.
Solve hard problems: Diagnose root causes and implement practical, sustainable fixes.
Do what’s needed: Flex to related duties that keep the plant running smoothly.

Benefits

Johns Manville (JM) offers a wide range of benefits to employees. Some are subsidized by the company and others are fully employee-paid.
Health benefits include a choice of comprehensive medical plans, a dental plan, vision plan, wellness program and critical illness insurance.
JM sponsors a 401(k) plan which includes a sizeable company match.
JM offers paid vacation and also provides paid sick and parental leave for eligible employees.
Additionally, Johns Manville provides basic life Insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an employee assistance program, and business travel accident coverage.
Supplemental life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance are available as well.
The company also offers a variety of tax saving accounts; health spending account, traditional flexible spending account, and a dependent care spending account.
JM also offers a tuition reimbursement program for undergraduate and certain graduate programs.
Johns Manville supports employee growth with vast educational opportunities and a company-wide mentoring program. This program pairs employees and leaders to grow skills, build stronger internal networks and strengthen the company’s succession planning process.
Johns Manville also offers soft and hard skills training facilitated by internal and external presenters.
Our talent management team prioritizes the holistic growth of our workforce.