Category Manufacturing Engineering Manager (Beverages)

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.

A successful candidate will provide technical leadership by driving the application of sound engineering and project principle, the application of emerging technologies, leveraging proprietary intellectual property, and executing various continuous improvement methodologies to enhance Schreiber’s manufacturing and conversion processes. This position oversees ongoing improvement initiatives related to capital project execution and plays a role in managing category performance for the manufacturing and process engineering teams in beverages. Additionally, the role 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.

Take advantage of outdoor workspaces. Sample and provide feedback on new products from our R&D team. Enjoy free coffee, soda and popcorn. Take a short walk to restaurants, breweries, the YMCA and a weekly farmer’s market on the scenic Fox River. You can even see Lambeau Field from our top floor.

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). Governmental Regulations - Be knowledgeable of various government regulations that must be complied with, i.e., 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 partners will receive:

• Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits.  When you join our employee-owned company, you’ll be part of our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from day one.  In addition to an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP, Schreiber will contribute an extra amount – about 8% of your earnings – toward your retirement every year.  That’s a company contribution of around 16% in retirement savings annually.  That’s hard to beat!
• Earn bonus pay. You’ll have an opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when we meet our company goals.
• Ready to make a move?  Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for a U.S. Salaried position.   
• Childcare costs. Get up to $5,000 annually to help you with the cost of childcare.  Monthly contributions toward childcare expenses, including independent babysitters.
• Earn $ for focusing on your health. Depending on your medical plan enrollment, earn $1,200 in your HSA or as a cash payout for prevention activities.  Plus, use your $600 lifestyle spending account for reimbursements related to health, fitness, weight management, mental health and social wellness.
• Pursue development that’s relevant to your role, career goals and the company. Plus, we offer tuition reimbursement if you want to further your education to grow in your role at Schreiber.
• Get access to medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one. This includes an onsite nurse and mental health counselor.
• Experience caring like you’ve never experienced it before. We have a program that’s completely organized by and for other partners who need extra help. It’s called Partners Helping Partners. We have hundreds of examples of partners organizing fundraisers to help out others going through a hard time.

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.

​For positions that require any amount of travel: Valid driver's license, auto insurance (at least state minimum- more might be required), acceptable driving record per Schreiber Foods discretion, and vehicle that will ensure applicant can meet the travel necessities of the position are required.

Schreiber requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event, an applicant does not have current work authorization, Schreiber will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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