Plant Engineering Manager

Plant Engineering ManagerFirst Quality was founded in 1989 and has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are located in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.We are seeking a Plant Engineering Manager for our First Quality Tissue SE located in Anderson, SC. This position will lead the site engineering functions to deliver viable, long-term solutions that align with the business, ensuring best life cycle asset performance at lowest reasonable operating cost.Primary responsibilities include:Leverages relationships with a business and operations partnership mindset ensuring aligned, prioritized, and effective engineering resources that deliver improved operational performance and effectiveness.Develop engineering talent and skills within the direct engineering team, while influencing that in resources beyond the direct sphere of control for both technical and project management acumen.Focuses the engineering team on its mission to develop effective solutions with supporting data, technical vetting and scoping, project management and execution.Ensures a balanced approach between technical engineering and project management that delivers long-term, lasting results beyond just initial project/activity execution and completion.Sets and communicates clear, consistent expectations, ensuring achievement of commitments as measured through delivery via time and budget, and most importantly with measured success factor performance proven through business results.Builds and drives engineering excellence in standards & specifications, processes, and practices within the engineering team and the internal customers it supports.Owns the engineering process to include problem statement, defined success factors, solution development from concept to project requests, scope of work, execution, financial management, and close out through lessons learned.Drives a proactive mindset through application of best practices in maintenance, operations, reliability, and engineering.Develops long-term horizon capital plans that incorporate current and future business performance needs, but also addresses risk of obsolescence.Collaborates with operations and leads the identification of common cause equipment losses related to equipment, maintenance, & reliability performance focusing on solution development and execution to minimize loss impacts and improve operational performance.Operates with a best practice and benchmarking approach, leveraging relationships with other sites, including other business divisions and outside the industry leaders in engineering, maintenance, & reliability practices.The ideal candidate should possess the following:Bachelor's degree in Engineering (mechanical, electrical, chemical preferred) or related discipline10+ years experience in an engineering/technical related functions such as engineering, maintenance, reliability including experience in a manufacturing setting5+ years management experience including demonstrated experience leading and developing team membersKnowledge of structural, civil, mechanical, controls and electrical construction requirements; general understanding of building codes, OSHA, and other applicable codes and standards and experience managing professional engineering functionsFamiliarity with project engineering tools, controls, and software to monitor and report engineering scope, schedule and cost status during both the project & operating phasesExcellent verbal and written communication skills and superior interpersonal skills; experienced working collaboratively with cross functional colleagues at all levelsFocus on customer needs in a highly supportive manner as key go-to support resourceFirst Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.