Plant Director of Engineering
Plant Director of Engineering
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Our client a prominent food and beverage manufacturing company is constructing a cuttingedge Largest dairy plant in the US near Rochester NY area. They are actively seeking a Director of Engineering to join their team.
Ideal candidate is a handson aseptic processing extended shelf life (ESL) HTST UHT high speed bottling (hot/cold) sterilization technical engineer (SCADA DCS utilities (water: city soft RO electrical) Boilers Chillers Control systems PLC etc.) plus cross functional experience leadership and mentoring.
Key Highlights:
Key responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Plant is set to start production in 2025. 50% travel first 6 months in 2025 (to other plants in the US) then10%
Feel free to reach out if you’d like to delve deeper into this opportunity. And even if you’re not personally interested perhaps you know someone who would be—a referral would be greatly appreciated.
Please email your resume to
Ideal candidate is a handson aseptic processing extended shelf life (ESL) HTST UHT high speed bottling (hot/cold) sterilization technical engineer (SCADA DCS utilities (water: city soft RO electrical) Boilers Chillers Control systems PLC etc.) plus cross functional experience leadership and mentoring.
Key Highlights:
- Career Growth: This role offers significant career advancement opportunities.
- Visibility: You’ll have high visibility within the organization.
- Rewarding: The position promises rewarding experiences.
- Responsibilities: As the Director of Engineering you’ll closely collaborate with and lead the project team during installation commissioning and plant startup.
- Ideal Candidate: We seek a handson technical leader who sets an example embraces growth continuous improvement and possesses proven influential and leadership skills.
Key responsibilities:
- Leadership and Management: The Director of Engineering oversees maintenance reliability and engineering functions. They inspire direct and coach the maintenance and reliability teams.
- Project Coordination: They collaborate closely with the Project Engineering team to ensure sustainable and efficient construction commissioning and rampup of the plant.
- Ownership Transition: The Director ensures a smooth handoff from the project team and OEMs to the plant team including training support systems and specifications.
- Process Improvement: They drive management routines implement PM programs lead improvement projects and devise technical solutions.
- Team Building: The Director supports hiring and onboarding of maintenance leadership reliability engineers and subject matter experts to build a capable technical team.
Qualifications:
- Education: A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related discipline is required.
- Experience: A minimum of 10 years of experience in Engineering or Plant Management directly related to the outlined duties and responsibilities. Experience in remote location leadership is preferred.
- Industry Experience: Dairy bottling or brewing experience is required. Pharmaceutical or food industry experience is also considered. Aseptic processing experience is preferred.
- Food Safety: Proven ability to identify and mitigate food safety risks particularly with temperaturesensitive pathogens in raw materials such as milk.
- Technical Knowledge: Working knowledge of utility systems processing technology and controls in manufacturing environments.
- Continuous Improvement: A track record of implementing TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and LEAN principles to create short and longterm value.
- Technical Skills: Strong technical skills in deploying and implementing new technologies in a fastpaced environment.
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead a team emphasizing trust and integrity.
- Process Optimization: Skilled in examining and reengineering operations formulating policy and developing new strategies and procedures.
- Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills working effectively with diverse constituencies.
- DecisionMaking: Ability to make administrative and procedural decisions on sensitive confidential matters.
- Training and Development: Analyzing training needs and managing performance.
- Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with computerized information systems including MES MRP CMMS and SCADA systems.
- Environmental Regulations: Understanding of federal and state environmental laws regulations procedures and standards.
- Budgeting and Fiscal Management: Knowledge of budgeting cost estimating and fiscal management principles.
- Adaptability: Ability to handle ambiguity and thrive in a fastpaced entrepreneurial environment.
Plant is set to start production in 2025. 50% travel first 6 months in 2025 (to other plants in the US) then10%
Feel free to reach out if you’d like to delve deeper into this opportunity. And even if you’re not personally interested perhaps you know someone who would be—a referral would be greatly appreciated.
Please email your resume to
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