Job Description
* Lead and manage multiple capital project teams, which include corporate engineers, operations personnel, safety engineers, and maintenance technicians.
* Prepare the specification of packaging and processing equipment, solicit equipment bids, review vendor's equipment proposals, and provide technical support to enable decision making on equipment selection.
* Develop project feasibility and alternatives, including order of magnitude cost estimate, description of capacities, rates of production, and materials of construction.
* Provide to leadership project description, justifications, cost estimates, and planned timing of capital projects.
* Serve as a Start-Up-Leader driving collaboration between manufacturing and engineering project teams to ensure a safe and successful vertical start-up.
* Coordinate engineering-related contracted work, and ensure safety of practices and process.
* Design and plan layout of equipment.
* Ensure machine safety and adherence to policies and regulations, to ensure that all designs comply to Rust-Oleum policies as well as government regulations.
* Investigates, drives, and assists on projects involving cost saving, process optimization, productivity improvements and replacing obsolete equipment related to existing processes.
* Identify ways to optimize packaging and process equipment and troubleshoot equipment issues, as needed.
* Provide process safety stewardship in areas of operating procedures, operating/technical manuals, critical safety systems, management of change, pre-startup safety reviews, process hazards analysis, incident investigations, audits and assessments, alert compliance, operations training, alarm management, P&ID updates, and action item follow-up.
* Provide technical expertise to plant operations and maintenance technicians.
Required Experience and skills
* Mechanical Engineering or Chemical Engineering preferred. Industrial or Electrical Engineers with hands-on mechanical and chemical experience will also be considered.
* Experience with high-speed packaging lines and chemical processing. Aerosol and liquid packaging preferred.
* Knowledge of mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical systems.
* PSM (Process Safety Management) experience.
* SAP, Microsoft Project
* CAD Line Layout/Design
* Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement tools and methodologies- (Lean, 5-Why, Kaizens, PDCA, Engineering Work Processes)
* Good process and project management, written and verbal communication skills, and a high level of initiative.