Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Salary $140,000 - $160,000 + Bonus + Benefits + Paid Relocation to the Upper Midwest

A national food and beverage manufacturing organization is seeking an Engineering Manager. You should be able to step into this fast-paced role and immediately provide direction and leadership to ensure all engineering projects and maintenance objectives are accomplished in accordance with the company’s goals and operation plans. The main goal of this Plant Engineering Manager’s position is to continually maximize plant engineering and manufacturing production abilities. You will need strong maintenance leadership to be considered. You must have PLC programming experience.

As the Engineering Manager, your major responsibilities will be:

• Coordinate the maintenance and engineering groups to maximize optimum production of machines and equipment
• Review and analyze production, quality, and maintenance to determine causes of nonconformity with product specification and production problems and provide solutions
• Develop and implement procedures to eliminate operating problems and improve the quality of the products
• Manage capital and expense projects to meet scope, budget and timeline as defined
• Provide direction to engineering and maintenance personnel to modify machines and equipment to improve production
• Plan and schedule equipment maintenance & repairs to support production schedule.

Minimum requirements for this Engineering Manager position:

• Bachelor’s degree: engineering discipline strongly preferred
• At least 5 years of experience in an engineering role
• Minimum 5 years of management experience required in team leadership
• Must be a skilled troubleshooter & problem solver
• Experience managing capital projects development & implementation.