51 applicants

Company

Graham Packaging · 4 days ago

Operations Engineer (Blow Molding Required)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$105K/yr - $151K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Leads projects of critical importance to assigned plants.

Acts as support role for significant projects to support technical innovation.

Use critical problem solving tools (8D, A3, FMEA) to resolve technical problems.

Acts as leader for assigned plant reviews by GPC’s leadership.

Works with Teams to shape and develop strategic decisions.

Utilizes Engineering Fundamentals of design to develop specification and scope of work documents.

Prioritize and work independently on a variety of assignments with minimal supervision.

Works with assigned plants to develop capital spending plans to exceed the plants AOP commitments.

Develops scope of work, bid documents, and assembles and presents business case to GPC leadership for key plant improvement initiatives.

Uses project management tools such as FMEA, MS Excel, MS Project, and action lists to track successful project execution to project closure including clear delivery of the project commitments and lessons learned.

Manage projects, including timelines, resources and budgets

Develops positive working relationships to effectively coordinate work activities.

Use strong influencing and communication skills to understand unique site needs and to effectively partner in delivering solutions.

Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills.

Maintains detailed accurate records and files.

Documents issues and create action plans to solve issues in a short term and long term manner.

Work with plant and corporate support groups to drive improvement projects.

Work with OEM, and third party equipment vendors to develop technical solutions to persistent mechanical, quality, and process issues.

Participate in Maintenance Standardization efforts across the business units.

Analyze equipment and functional location work history data in the SAPPM system to assess opportunities to increase reliability and reduce maintenance costs; Predictive Maintenance.

Assess and execute technical solutions to improve machine efficiency and effectiveness and/or reduce downtime.

Ensure maintenance managers are engaged in the PM/PdM process and understand the options available from the Operations Engineering.

Create training programs to address specific needs of individuals and groups in plants.

Train in one on one and group environments, both on the floor and in the classroom.

Coach and mentor plant maintenance personnel.

Evaluates/validates the impact of corrective actions that impact availability and/or reliability and leverages solutions across plants/site if appropriate.

Use data effectively to track progress and sustain results.

Travel up to 90% of the time, some international travel may be required.

Qualification

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. in EngineeringExtrusion Blow MoldingStretch Blow MoldingContainer handling systemsUtilities support systemsInspection SystemsLabeling Systems8D processA3 processRCAFMEAIndustrial safety policiesStatistics knowledgeAnalytical toolsTechnical documentation

Required

B.S. In a technical or engineering field is ideal.

8 + experience as a maintenance manager, process engineer, project manager, plant engineer or equivalent

Prior work experience with the following equipment: Extrusion Blow Molding; Blow Molders (Wheel), IML, and other automated downstream equipment; Stretch Blow Molding; Single Stage and Two Stage equipment; Container handling: Conveyors, Palletizers, Strappers, Wrappers, Bottle Unscramblers; Utilities support systems; Compressors, Pumps, Chillers, Towers, Water Treatment; Inspection Systems: Vision, Leak Detection; Labeling Systems: PML, Heat Transfer, Silk Screen.

Proficient in problem solving and decision making, 8D, A3, RCA, FMEA

Must possess excellent understanding of industrial safety policies and practices

Strong working knowledge of statistics and analytical tools associated with quality systems

Ability to write technical documents and create step by step instruction sets for complex operation