Plant Engineering Manager

POSITION:     Plant Engineer
REOPRTS TO: Director of Operations
LOCATION:   Columbus, OH
SALARY:         $150,000 - $200,000 - (Relocation assistance available)
 
SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• Candidate must have experience to develop, execute and manage activities aimed at maintaining/improving asset availability and reliability.
• Restore equipment to base condition— inherent levels of reliability and safety—when deterioration occurs.
• Assist in all phases of facility expansions and modifications.
• Management of plant Mechanical and Electrical support systems
• Manage all assigned projects in a manner that will ensure completion within the approved project schedule and budget.
• Manage capital equipment quoting, purchasing, installation and startup processes.
• Direct and oversee assigned contractor personnel in activates relating to the implementation of assigned projects.
• Supports and ensures compliance with quality, environmental, business policies and state standards associates with such management systems.
• Develop standardized documentation including SOP’s, training, and validation of equipment reliability.
• Responsible for planning and monitoring capital investment expenditures.
• Establishes key interfaces and builds relationships with internal customers and key team members in support of alignment of CAPEX project goals.
• Identify and manage relationships with preferred equipment manufacturers, specialists, and technical support consultants.
• Identify and correct chronic, repetitive, and costly electrical equipment and other systems problems.
• Support turnarounds planned and unplanned outages, major electrical equipment overhauls, routine, and non-routine repairs.
• Provide electrical engineering support to maintenance and operations teams. Obtain the information necessary for design improvement for equipment and systems where inherent reliability is inadequate.
• Provide engineering support as needed and be on-call for critical plant/asset electrical or other systems failures.
• Work closely with manufacturing teams at all levels to resolve technical issues, applying engineering and technical skills to design, optimize and troubleshoot electrical and other systems equipment.
• Improve equipment and system reliability, safety, and sustainability at minimum total cost. Perform technical analysis, testing, calculations, and evaluation of results to solve complex engineering and reliability problems.
• Lead failure analysis of electrical and other systems/equipment and educate both maintenance and production technicians after failure analysis.
• Maintain and update plant electrical drawings and files as needed.

Education

• 5+ years’ technical experience in a production environment. Project management and environmental experience required.
• Bachelor of Science degree strongly preferred in Electrical Engineering,
• Continuous Improvement experience using LEAN or Six Sigma concepts preferred.
• SAP experience a must.