Engineering Manager Cadet, MO

Buckman

$110K — $130K *
Cadet, MO 63630In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering
  • 10+ years of relevant job experience
  • Strong knowledge of lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills
  • Proven ability in strategic thinking and execution
  • Understanding of process safety management (PSM) concepts
  • Experience with startup and commissioning activities

Responsibilities

  • Establish and enforce engineering standards according to design intent and regulatory requirements
  • Actively lead process safety activities such as PSIs and incident reviews
  • Ensure safety risks are considered in engineering decisions
  • Partner with Operations and EHS to address incidents with corrective actions
  • Own the mechanical integrity strategy for critical assets
  • Lead root cause analyses of equipment failures and oversee corrective engineering actions
  • Enforce rigorous Management of Change (MOC) for all operational changes

Benefits

  • Opportunity for personal and professional development
  • Collaborative leadership culture
  • Engagement in continuous improvement initiatives
  • Work in a safety-focused environment
  • Access to modern engineering tools and methodologies
Full Job Description
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Engineering Manager

Buckman - Cadet, MO

Location: Cadet, MO

Language: English

Travel: up to 5%

Position Summary

The Engineering Manager at Cadet and/or Memphis leads process integrity and upholds design intent across all manufacturing operations by serving as the site's technical design authority. Ensure that process hazard analyses, management-of-change evaluations, and process safety information remain current, accurate, and rigorously applied-so that every change to process conditions, raw materials, or formulations is technically sound before it reaches the plant floor. Sustain long-term process knowledge, deliver independent technical challenge to Operations, and drive continuous improvement of control systems, technical standards, and operating procedures to achieve safe, compliant, and reliable production outcomes.

Key Outcomes/Responsibilities

Outcome: Ensure Safe, Compliant, and Reliable Operations

Actions:
  • Establish and enforce engineering standards that reflect design intent, regulatory requirements, and Buckman EHS policies
  • Actively lead and participate in process safety activities (PSI, PHA, LOPA, incident reviews), not delegate them entirely
  • Ensure engineering decisions explicitly consider process safety risk, not just cost or schedule
  • Partner with Operations and EHS to address audit findings, incidents, and near-misses with permanent corrective actions


Outcome: Maintain Asset Integrity & Mechanical Reliability

Actions:
  • Own the mechanical integrity strategy for critical assets (pressure systems, reactors, tanks, relief devices, utilities)
  • Ensure inspection, testing, and preventive maintenance programs are risk-based and current
  • Lead root-cause analysis of equipment failures and ensure corrective actions are engineered, not procedural only
  • Review reliability trends and intervene early when degradation or repeat failures emerge


Outcome: Execute Engineering Change & Capital Projects with Discipline

Actions:
  • Enforce rigorous Management of Change (MOC) for all process, equipment, and control changes
  • Ensure all changes are technically reviewed, hazards evaluated, and documentation updated before implementation
  • Lead or oversee capital project execution to ensure safe startup and operational readiness
  • Require PSSR completion and verification before returning modified systems to service


Outcome: Lead Process Safety as a Line-Leadership Responsibility

Actions:
  • Clearly communicate that process safety is a core engineering responsibility-not a compliance exercise
  • Regularly engage operators and supervisors in hazard awareness and learning from incidents
  • Ensure PHAs remain living documents that drive real engineering and operating changes
  • Model disciplined decision-making under production pressure, reinforcing risk-based choices


Outcome: Sustain Technical Capability & Process Knowledge

Actions:
  • Serve as the site technical authority, preserving long-term process and systems knowledge
  • Provide independent technical challenge to Operations and Maintenance decisions
  • Drive continuous improvement of control systems, technical standards, SOPs, and operating procedures
  • Build technical depth within the engineering team through coaching, standards, and deliberate development


Outcome: Enable Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

Actions:
  • Use data, reliability trends, and process performance indicators to identify improvement opportunities
  • Translate operational issues into engineered solutions rather than compensating behavior
  • Partner cross-functionally to improve safety, quality, throughput, and cost performance
  • Ensure engineering effort is focused on high-risk, high-value problems impacting site performance


Basic Qualifications
  • Education Requirements: Bachelor's Degree - Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineer
  • Job Experience: 10+ years
  • Strong knowledge of lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and ERP systems
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
  • Strategic thinking and execution
  • Operational excellence
  • Team leadership and development
  • Data-drive decision-making
  • Change management
  • Process safety management (PSM) concepts
  • Mechanical integrity principles for critical assets (pressure systems, vessels, piping, utilities)
  • Experience supporting startup, commissioning, and operational readiness activities
  • Experience ensuring technical risk is identified, understood, and mitigated before implementation
  • Experience leading or overseeing engineering scope development, technical reviews of capital projects, and PSSR and startup readiness


Competencies

  • Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
  • Attracts Top Talent - Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
  • Business Insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
  • Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
  • Cultivates Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful


We appreciate the interest of recruitment partners, but we are not engaging external agencies for this role.

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