- Location
- Frankfort, KY, US
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Manager
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- iCIMS
Description
Company Overview
Why Choose Us?
Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.
Our Sustainability Commitment
The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.
Job Description
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.
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact [email protected].
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