Lead Engineer
- Orrville, OH
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Teach, coach, and mentor the site’s Process Engineering team – building skills in troubleshooting, project management, and effective use of SQMS pillar tools
- Effectively manage large scope CapEx projects to completion on time and on budget
- Lead the plant’s Engineering Co-Op program – recruitment, interviewing, manager selection, onboarding, and performance management
- Alongside, the Technical Manager, ensure an effective 3-5year maintain plants CapEx plan is built
- Maintain open and effective communication with the Plant Engineer, Controls Engineer, and E&I team
- Lead the E&I Weekly Prioritization meeting to ensure operation’s priorities are understood
- Own, execute, and report on Plant Master Plan items
- Own Focused Improvement projects – coach others through the 7 Step Process
- Supply onsite support for High Performance Work Team meetings across the plant
- Backfill Process Engineers during times of vacancy
- Night and/or weekend support when necessary to support operations or execute projects
- A bachelor’s degree in engineering; additional education - MBA preferred
- Relevant experience leading projects and processes
- At least 5 years of experience in operations or project management
- Organizational leadership experience, ability to energize, provide effective direction and develop talent
- Strong analytical, operational, and interpersonal aptitude
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written with an ability to recognize and appraise seriousness and urgency of issues as they relate to department activities
- Ability to work well and maintain strong business relationships with other departments, outside suppliers and other business partners to deliver against business/organization goals
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and organize daily activities to finish required work within agreed to commitments and deadlines with business needs in mind
- Demonstrate high personal integrity; Ethical, trustworthy, and dependable with focus on customer needs and objectives
- Track record of delivering business results
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally
- Ability to navigate through organizational boundaries and proactively manage change within an organization
- Effectively collaborates with customers to gain agreement/support
- Ability to learn & apply added information quickly; Anticipate problems before they occur; take a broad view; find meaningful connections; use logic and intuition to define problems/solutions
- Ability to work accurately and successfully with a limited amount of supervision
- Regularly finds creative/innovative ways to overcome obstacles, i.e., uncooperative/unresponsive suppliers, strong internal resistance to action, et cetera.