Process Engineering Manager

A recognized consumer products company in Kansas is actively seeking a new Process Engineering Manager to join their growing Global Engineering team. In this role, the Process Engineering Manager will be primarily responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of Capex at the manufacturing plant in accordance to the company's standards and best industry practices as well as providing Project Management Governance for seamless execution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the execution of allocated engineering at both plants
• Lead allocated plant transformation projects, brownfields projects, business continuity, value creation, and decarbonization projects
• Conduct assessments and generate order-of-magnitude costing to provide project feasibility insights
• Direct the change management process for projects and ensure that all impacts, aspects, and risks are managed
• Identify and lead the end-to-end implementation of value-creating manufacturing initiatives that require Capital Expenditure
• Collaborate with the Factory Director and Maintenance teams to deliver step-changing Engineering Improvements and support OEE Improvement Plans to debottleneck
• Develop complete scope, URS documents, and Capital Appropriation Requests for all Key and assigned projects, including Value Creation, Business Continuity, and Decarbonization projects
• Collaborate with the P&I team to ensure that all innovation and renovation projects are delivered on time and in full
• Collaborate with the Procurement team in the running of a closed tender process
• Identify the Value Creation projects to create savings opportunities, validate with finance, seek and attain buy-in for these projects, build a budget with other functions, realize and track savings
• Perform other duties, as needed

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in a Technical FMCG Engineering environment
• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical / Process, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering
• Background in Food & Beverage and/or similar Consumer Products setting
• Good knowledge of Food Safety and GMP Standards
• Exceptional skills in Project Management
• Experience in understanding & applying global Industry Engineering standards, process technologies, project methodologies & specifications
• General knowledge of Food/Beverage process and Packaging technologies
• Great interpersonal and excellent communication skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment, and cultivate strong working relationships across the organization