Job Description:

The OU Engineering Lead is responsible for leading engineering activities across an assigned operating unit and supporting operational performance, manufacturing readiness, reliability improvement, and adoption of enterprise engineering standards across manufacturing sites. This role provides day-to-day engineering leadership across plant engineering teams within the operating unit and partners with Plant Operations, Capital Project Engineering, and Center of Excellence teams to improve operational performance, support technical issue resolution, and drive engineering standardization across manufacturing operations.

 

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with company safety standards, engineering standards, and operational procedures
• Lead engineering activities across assigned operating unit manufacturing operations
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership, coaching, training, capability-building, and support for plant engineering teams across plants
• Drive engineering performance across plants, including uptime, throughput, yield, scrap reduction, and operational reliability
• Lead troubleshooting for complex operational, technical, process, and reliability issues across manufacturing sites
• Lead execution of capital projects within the operating unit
• Partner with Plant Operations teams to support manufacturing readiness, startup stabilization, process performance, and operational improvement initiatives
• Partner with Center of Excellence teams to drive adoption and implementation of enterprise engineering standards, tools, governance, and best practices across manufacturing sites
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Essential

• 5+ years of manufacturing engineering, process engineering, reliability engineering, or technical operations experience
• Experience supporting high-volume manufacturing operations across 5 - 8 plants
• Experience improving operational performance related to throughput, uptime, reliability, yield, scrap reduction, and process capability
• Experience supporting process troubleshooting, operational stabilization, commissioning, startup, and manufacturing readiness initiatives
• Experience supporting execution of capital projects within manufacturing operations
• Experience driving engineering standardization and best practice adoption across manufacturing operations
• Strong technical problem-solving, troubleshooting, and operational support capability
• Strong communication, organizational, and cross-functional coordination capability
• Ability to coach, train, and support plant engineering teams across 5 - 8 plants
• Proficiency using common office technology and tools.

Preferred

• Experience supporting packaging, plastics, extrusion, thermoforming, molded fiber, paper, or related manufacturing operations
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline highly preferred

Company Benefits What You'll Get From Us Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.