What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Engineering (Food Manufacturing) position at SourcePro Search, LLC?
We are conducting a search for a Director of Engineering for our manufacturing client in Northvale, NJ.
What You'll Do :
- Originates or approves designs and coordinates engineering projects, evaluates results, and makes recommendations to senior management.
- Works with the Operations Department to identify, develop, and roll out key technical strategies / programs that bring competitive advantage and value.
- Utilizes technology as a lever to increase competitiveness and improve food safety, quality improvement, and manufacturing cost reductions.
- Oversees efficiency of the maintenance department and provides guidance to the maintenance managers to continuously improve machine uptime and Preventative Maintenance programs.
- Reviews maintenance personnel performance to help Maintenance managers target areas of improvement.
- Maintains oversight of the Maintenance, Facilities, and Fabrication teams to ensure they are working efficiently and effectively on plant upkeep as well as projects assigned by the Engineering department.
- Develops internal subject matter experts by mentoring and building technical capability of a facility-based team of Engineers.
- Partners with cross functional teams to review business requirements to determine and develop optimized technical solutions to meet business needs.
- Leads major segments of complex projects to meet cost schedule, and performance.
- Creates standardization of equipment and procedures and replicates these across the business.
- Provides technical leadership to identify and develop key strategies, programs, and projects to build technical capability, increase system reliability, and deliver the highest value business benefit to the company.
- Partners with Research and Development and the Supply Chain early in a project's lifecycle to evaluate multiple scenarios that meet company requirements.
- Develops rough order of magnitude estimates to give the business a directional early view of a project and the robustness of the business case.
- Develops 3rd party engineering partners to support business needs.
- Reviews product requirements to ensure building utility compatibility, determines costs and schedules.
- Keeps current with latest technology, commercial applications, industry regulations and codes
What You'll Bring :
