Manager, Engineering

What you will do

• Oversee the daily activities of the plant engineering and maintenance team, ensuring effective maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of production equipment, packaging/filling lines, utilities, and facility systems.
• Develop, implement, and monitor preventive and predictive maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and support production goals.
• Lead reliability improvement efforts, including downtime analysis, repeat failure reduction, spare parts strategy, PM optimization, and maintenance work order discipline.
• Support high-speed packaging and filling equipment, including liquid fillers, labelers, conveyors, wrappers/cello equipment, pumps, motors, sensors, VFDs, PLC-controlled equipment, and related line controls.
• Assist with capital project execution, including scope development, vendor coordination, installation, commissioning, startup support, and handoff to operations and maintenance.
• Partner with Operations, EHS, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and site leadership to improve uptime, safety, compliance, and production execution.
• Manage department budget, parts, tools, outside services, contractors, and manpower to meet operational priorities.
• Supervise, train, and mentor maintenance and engineering team members, building technical capability, accountability, and strong floor-level support.
• Ensure engineering and maintenance activities meet safety, environmental, regulatory, and site compliance requirements, including LOTO, machine guarding, electrical safety, and applicable process safety expectations.
• Support CMMS discipline, including accurate work order completion, PM compliance, backlog management, downtime follow-up, and maintenance KPI reporting.

Education Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or related field (Required)

Experience Qualifications

• 1–3 years of supervisory experience in maintenance, engineering, reliability, or plant technical operations required.
• 4–6 years of plant maintenance or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment required, preferably in fragrance, beauty, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, consumer products, chemical, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
• Experience with packaging, filling, automation, utilities, capital projects, and CMMS-based maintenance systems strongly preferred.
• Experience in environments involving flammable materials, alcohol-based products, chemical handling, or PSM/process safety considerations preferred.

Skills and Abilities

• Working knowledge of maintenance and reliability practices, including preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, downtime reduction, and spare parts planning.
• Hands-on troubleshooting experience with mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, utility, and automation systems.
• Working knowledge of CMMS systems and maintenance KPIs, including PM completion, backlog, MTTR, downtime, repeat failures, and emergency work.
• Strong leadership presence on the manufacturing floor, with the ability to coach mechanics, work with operators, and support production under time-sensitive conditions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across maintenance execution, capital projects, compliance, utilities, and production support.
• Practical understanding of safety and environmental requirements in manufacturing, including LOTO, machine guarding, electrical safety, contractor safety, and regulated operations.

Licenses and Certifications

Certified Maintenance Manager (CMM) or equivalent (Preferred)
Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (CMRP) (Preferred)