Engineering Manager

Job Title: Senior Manager of Maintenance and Engineering

Location: Minnesota

Industry: Food & Beverage

DSJ Global is currently partnered with a nationally leading Food & Beverage manufacturing organization who are looking to add a Sr Maintenance and Engineering Manager to their team. In this role you will be part of the plant leadership team and have a broad range of technical responsibilities including: owning the plant engineering strategy and execution, developing a proactive maintenance program, providing technical expertise to production, and driving continuous improvement across manufacturing

As the Sr. Engineering and Maintenance Manager you will:

• Develop the 3-5 year capital plan strategy for the site on equipment and systems that will need refurbishment, replacement, or upgrade.
• Be Responsible for overseeing development, planning, and execution of small and large capital projects for plant operations. Responsibilities include: defining project scope, developing solutions, and partnering with vendors, consultants, and contractors to develop and install projects. Drive control schedule to accomplish projects on time and within cost estimate
• Ability to define cost savings and financial justification for CAPEX investments • Lead team in the identification of production and process changes, partner with operations leadership to develop and implement engineering improvements, resulting in greater operational efficiencies
• Set vision for the maintenance function to achieve high equipment performance. Implement proactive strategies such as criticality analyses, PM optimization, reliability-centered maintenance, predictive maintenance to drive high reliability across the plant production assets.
• Ensure vision is set and resources available to strategically develop technical skill sets for maintenance staff; partner with Human Resources to establish clear employee development programs and external talent pipelines for skilled trades

The Sr. Engineering and Maintenance Manager should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering field (Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, or Chemical)
• 8 years’ Engineering experience (Project, Process, or Plant)
• 5 years Maintenance or maintenance management experience
• 3 years’ experience in food manufacturing
• Experience with high speed automated packaging lines
• Experience with PLCs, Control systems, automation, and instrumentation
• Must have previous experience managing multiple large projects simultaneously

If this sounds like an opportunity you would be interested in, apply now!