Schreiber Foods
Category Manufacturing Engineering Manager (Beverages)
Schreiber Foods, Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54311
Overview
This role is responsible for leading the engineering team that executes priorities within the Beverage Category. It involves planning, prioritizing, and implementing business objectives that support capital execution priorities and engineering-related continuous improvements efforts aligned with the strategic growth of the category. The role also includes strategically directing, coordinating, and supervising the engineering team to ensure alignment with organizational goals. Job Category:
Engineering Job Family:
Manufacturing Engineering Job Description:
This role is responsible for leading the engineering team that executes priorities within the company's Beverage Category. It involves planning, prioritizing, and implementing business objectives that support capital execution priorities and engineering related continuous improvements efforts aligned with the strategic growth of the category. The role also includes strategically directing, coordinating, and supervising the engineering team to ensure alignment with organizational goals. This candidate will provide technical leadership by driving the application of sound engineering and project principles, applying emerging technologies, leveraging proprietary intellectual property, and executing continuous improvement methodologies to enhance Schreiber’s manufacturing and conversion processes. The position oversees ongoing improvement initiatives related to capital project execution and participates in managing category performance for the manufacturing and process engineering teams in beverages. The role also serves as a subject matter expert, establishing and refining engineering standards to maximize occupational safety, ensure food safety compliance, and improve operational productivity. This role is 100% on-site (Monday-Friday) located at our Home Office in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Relocation Benefits:
Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for this position. About our Green Bay, WI Home Office:
You’ll find lots to love in our beautiful home office in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin. Our jeans-friendly environment has indoor and outdoor collaboration spaces, state-of-the-art R&D and sensory labs, culinary kitchens, a pilot plant, innovation center and more. What you'll do: Build, lead and develop a high performing engineering team instilling a culture of accountability, results, continuous improvement, and people first. Provide strong leadership to the overall engineering team working together to complete projects, assigning team members roles in which they’re most likely to succeed, and maintain team productivity. Reinforce Manufacturing & Process Engineering principles with partners and Team Members. Prioritize, define and assign engineering projects to project engineers, manufacturing engineers, process engineers, and project managers, defining project objectives, preparing project plans, issuing project instructions and controlling changes to project scope and designs. Oversight and execution of capital and process improvements for the optimization of new and existing processes. Actively review category wide KPI’s and perform data analysis to provide analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems. Financial analysis and tracking capital spend to provide justification and confirm that capital projects meet or exceed ROI. Negotiate and resolve executive-level challenges that impact strategic direction. Oversee and audit project teams to ensure strict adherence to all applicable standards and organizational commitments. Ensure that project objectives related to cost, scope, and timelines are consistently achieved. Provide timely and comprehensive updates on project status to relevant leadership as required. Improve manufacturing operations through projects that reduce labor, boost quality, efficiency, and occupational safety, while ensuring solutions support category growth goals. Actively working with companywide maintenance and reliability teams to improve equipment reliability and prevent major downtime. Collaborate and support sales, R&D, and other areas of the business in process design for new products, automation and asset utilization. Leads and implements APQP processes and expectations for the product category (PFMEA, MSA, and SPC). Knowledge of governmental regulations that must be complied with (OSHA, USDA, FDA, EPA, EEOC, OFCCP, etc.). Provide leadership in Operational Excellence through continuous improvement, benchmarking and making recommendations to achieve world-class operational excellence in manufacturing. Customer Requirements - Work with Company and Plant Leadership in identifying and communicating customer requirements and updating engineering process controls to reflect best practices. Collaborate with Enterprise quality and others in the business to develop standards for process and facility design, emphasizing sanitary equipment and infrastructure design. May be required to perform other job-related tasks. What you need to succeed: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field. Master’s degree in engineering or related field is a plus but not required. 10-12 years of experience in project/process/manufacturing engineering leadership in a converting/manufacturing environment is required. 5+ years of experience in fluid-related processing or equivalent. FDA, USDA, regulated food and beverage experience is preferred. Technical knowledge of aseptic processing, heat treatment, filtration & separation, and blending is preferred. 5+ years of experience in DMADV/Six Sigma training and experience is preferred. Certification or training in Six Sigma is preferred. Leadership skills and ability to function in a team environment. Ability to lead others to ensure projects are executed in a consistent/standardized approach. Proven history of results-driven focus. Adherence to, knowledge of and awareness of regulatory requirements for the category. Self-motivated with high personal and ethical standards. Desire to grow and take on new challenges and opportunities. Detailed knowledge of sanitary facility and equipment design principles, OSHA, GMPs and related regulations. Design experience includes packaging, automation, material handling, and product. Ability to travel up to 30% - 50% over the course of a year. Travel could be higher for short intervals of time depending on business needs. Eligible benefits and compensation: Employee ownership via ESOP from day one with an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP and an approximate 8% company contribution annually. Opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when company goals are met. $10,000 relocation bonus plus relocation package for distances over 50 miles for a U.S. salaried position. Childcare support up to $5,000 annually. Health-focused benefits including HSA options or cash payout, and a lifestyle spending account. Tuition reimbursement and ongoing development opportunities relevant to your role. Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one, with onsite health resources. Employee support programs, including Partners Helping Partners for emergency assistance. Sound like a company you’d like to be a part of? Click Apply. Need extra assistance with the application process? Contact recruiting@schreiberfoods.com or call 920-437-7601. Schreiber is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. For positions that require travel: Valid driver's license, auto insurance, and a suitable vehicle are required. Travel may be necessary. Sign up for job alerts to be notified about new openings.
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This role is responsible for leading the engineering team that executes priorities within the Beverage Category. It involves planning, prioritizing, and implementing business objectives that support capital execution priorities and engineering-related continuous improvements efforts aligned with the strategic growth of the category. The role also includes strategically directing, coordinating, and supervising the engineering team to ensure alignment with organizational goals. Job Category:
Engineering Job Family:
Manufacturing Engineering Job Description:
This role is responsible for leading the engineering team that executes priorities within the company's Beverage Category. It involves planning, prioritizing, and implementing business objectives that support capital execution priorities and engineering related continuous improvements efforts aligned with the strategic growth of the category. The role also includes strategically directing, coordinating, and supervising the engineering team to ensure alignment with organizational goals. This candidate will provide technical leadership by driving the application of sound engineering and project principles, applying emerging technologies, leveraging proprietary intellectual property, and executing continuous improvement methodologies to enhance Schreiber’s manufacturing and conversion processes. The position oversees ongoing improvement initiatives related to capital project execution and participates in managing category performance for the manufacturing and process engineering teams in beverages. The role also serves as a subject matter expert, establishing and refining engineering standards to maximize occupational safety, ensure food safety compliance, and improve operational productivity. This role is 100% on-site (Monday-Friday) located at our Home Office in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Relocation Benefits:
Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for this position. About our Green Bay, WI Home Office:
You’ll find lots to love in our beautiful home office in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin. Our jeans-friendly environment has indoor and outdoor collaboration spaces, state-of-the-art R&D and sensory labs, culinary kitchens, a pilot plant, innovation center and more. What you'll do: Build, lead and develop a high performing engineering team instilling a culture of accountability, results, continuous improvement, and people first. Provide strong leadership to the overall engineering team working together to complete projects, assigning team members roles in which they’re most likely to succeed, and maintain team productivity. Reinforce Manufacturing & Process Engineering principles with partners and Team Members. Prioritize, define and assign engineering projects to project engineers, manufacturing engineers, process engineers, and project managers, defining project objectives, preparing project plans, issuing project instructions and controlling changes to project scope and designs. Oversight and execution of capital and process improvements for the optimization of new and existing processes. Actively review category wide KPI’s and perform data analysis to provide analytical skills for evaluating information carefully and solving complex problems. Financial analysis and tracking capital spend to provide justification and confirm that capital projects meet or exceed ROI. Negotiate and resolve executive-level challenges that impact strategic direction. Oversee and audit project teams to ensure strict adherence to all applicable standards and organizational commitments. Ensure that project objectives related to cost, scope, and timelines are consistently achieved. Provide timely and comprehensive updates on project status to relevant leadership as required. Improve manufacturing operations through projects that reduce labor, boost quality, efficiency, and occupational safety, while ensuring solutions support category growth goals. Actively working with companywide maintenance and reliability teams to improve equipment reliability and prevent major downtime. Collaborate and support sales, R&D, and other areas of the business in process design for new products, automation and asset utilization. Leads and implements APQP processes and expectations for the product category (PFMEA, MSA, and SPC). Knowledge of governmental regulations that must be complied with (OSHA, USDA, FDA, EPA, EEOC, OFCCP, etc.). Provide leadership in Operational Excellence through continuous improvement, benchmarking and making recommendations to achieve world-class operational excellence in manufacturing. Customer Requirements - Work with Company and Plant Leadership in identifying and communicating customer requirements and updating engineering process controls to reflect best practices. Collaborate with Enterprise quality and others in the business to develop standards for process and facility design, emphasizing sanitary equipment and infrastructure design. May be required to perform other job-related tasks. What you need to succeed: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field. Master’s degree in engineering or related field is a plus but not required. 10-12 years of experience in project/process/manufacturing engineering leadership in a converting/manufacturing environment is required. 5+ years of experience in fluid-related processing or equivalent. FDA, USDA, regulated food and beverage experience is preferred. Technical knowledge of aseptic processing, heat treatment, filtration & separation, and blending is preferred. 5+ years of experience in DMADV/Six Sigma training and experience is preferred. Certification or training in Six Sigma is preferred. Leadership skills and ability to function in a team environment. Ability to lead others to ensure projects are executed in a consistent/standardized approach. Proven history of results-driven focus. Adherence to, knowledge of and awareness of regulatory requirements for the category. Self-motivated with high personal and ethical standards. Desire to grow and take on new challenges and opportunities. Detailed knowledge of sanitary facility and equipment design principles, OSHA, GMPs and related regulations. Design experience includes packaging, automation, material handling, and product. Ability to travel up to 30% - 50% over the course of a year. Travel could be higher for short intervals of time depending on business needs. Eligible benefits and compensation: Employee ownership via ESOP from day one with an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP and an approximate 8% company contribution annually. Opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when company goals are met. $10,000 relocation bonus plus relocation package for distances over 50 miles for a U.S. salaried position. Childcare support up to $5,000 annually. Health-focused benefits including HSA options or cash payout, and a lifestyle spending account. Tuition reimbursement and ongoing development opportunities relevant to your role. Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one, with onsite health resources. Employee support programs, including Partners Helping Partners for emergency assistance. Sound like a company you’d like to be a part of? Click Apply. Need extra assistance with the application process? Contact recruiting@schreiberfoods.com or call 920-437-7601. Schreiber is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. For positions that require travel: Valid driver's license, auto insurance, and a suitable vehicle are required. Travel may be necessary. Sign up for job alerts to be notified about new openings.
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