Engineering Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Project Planning and Coordination
   • Lead the engineering efforts in planning, designing, and executing capital projects.
   • Develop detailed project schedules and budgets.
   • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including mill operations, contractors, and vendors, to ensure effective project execution.
   • Ensure project alignment with regulatory compliance, safety standards, and environmental laws
2. Leadership and Team Management
   • Direct, manage, and mentor a team of engineers, allocate tasks effectively to match team capabilities and project requirements, ensuring high performance and technical expertise.
   • Conduct performance reviews, provide feedback, and encourage professional growth within the engineering team.
   • Maintain a collaborative environment that fosters innovation and problem-solving in complex mill operations.
3. Technical Oversight and Engineering Solutions
   • Provide oversight and guidance on engineering designs, focusing on pulp and paper mill processes, power generation systems, and recovery boiler operations.
   • Ensure technical designs and solutions comply with industry standards, and best practices.
   • Manage the resolution of complex engineering challenges, ensuring solutions are cost-effective and operationally sound.
   • Approve engineering drawings, specifications, and system integration designs for both construction and operational phases.
4. Developing 5-Year Capital Plan
   • Work closely with the mill leadership team to lead a comprehensive 5-year capital plan.
   • Align capital expenditures with long-term operational goals, focusing on improving reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
   • Ensure the capital plan integrates with mill objectives and aligns with maintenance strategies to minimize downtime and maximize operational continuity.
5. Budgeting and Cost Management
   • Develop and manage engineering budgets, ensuring all costs are within financial constraints.
   • Monitor expenditures and resource allocations for capital projects, identifying opportunities for cost savings while maintaining safety and quality standards.
   • Provide senior management with regular financial updates, cost analysis, and risk assessments to ensure effective project execution.
6. Stakeholder Communication
   • Serve as the primary engineering liaison for internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, clients, contractors, and regulatory authorities.
   • Deliver regular updates on project status, key milestones, risks, and challenges, ensuring transparent and efficient communication.
   • Ensure that all project documentation, including engineering reports, compliance reports, and safety protocols, is delivered accurately and on time.
7. Construction and Site Management
   • Provide technical oversight during the construction and commissioning phases
   • Ensure adherence to engineering specifications, safety standards, and quality control measures on-site.
   • Conduct site inspections, identify issues, and provide solutions to ensure project timelines are met without compromising safety or technical performance.

Skills & Qualifications

Key Skills and Qualifications

• Education: A bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Chemical, or Pulp and Paper Engineering.
• Experience: Proven experience in engineering management within the pulp and paper industry. Knowledge of recovery boiler operations, and power generation systems is preferred.
• Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of pulp and power systems, including recovery boiler construction, mill power generation, and boiler operation is preferred. Functional use of Microsoft Office, Lotus, and Maintenance Management systems, In-depth understanding of ASME codes (especially related to pressure vessels and boilers) and welding procedures is preferred.
• Project Management: Experience managing medium – large scale capital projects, including budgeting, scheduling, and coordinating resources effectively.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams, with strong interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• Compliance and Safety: Deep understanding of safety regulations, environmental laws, and industry-specific compliance standards.

• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively report to management and coordinate with external contractors, regulatory bodies, and vendors. Demonstrated ability to balance priorities that meet short and long-term objectives; uses organized and efficient work methods.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to handle or feel.
• The employee frequently is required to talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

• The noise level in the work environment can be loud at times.
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts.
• May be exposed to hot, cold, wet and/or humid conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; vibrations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• A Professional Engineer license is preferred. 

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

This company is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.