Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.
Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.
We are seeking a Technical Engineering Manager for our First Quality Tissue SE, LLC located in Anderson, SC. This position will be responsible for leading technical engineering functions and subject matter experts to evaluate, develop, and design long-term solutions that support and align with the business, ensuring best life cycle asset performance at lowest reasonable operating cost
Primary responsibilities include:
Leverages relationships with a business and operations partnership mindset ensuring aligned, prioritized, and effective engineering resources that deliver improved operational performance and effectiveness.
Develop engineering talent and skills within the direct engineering team, while influencing that in resources beyond the direct sphere of control for both technical and project management acumen.
Focuses the engineering team on its mission to develop effective solutions with supporting data, technical vetting and scoping, ensuring application of standards and specifications.
Sets and communicates clear, consistent expectations, ensuring achievement of commitments as measured through success factor performance proven via business results such as OEE, Uptime, Stops, and Unit Cost.
Owns and drives engineering excellence in standards & specifications, processes, and practices within the engineering team and the internal customers it supports.
Engineering process owner to include problem statement, defined success factors, solution development from concept to project requests, scope of work, asset & business life cycle costing, and execution support.
Drives a proactive mindset through application of best practices in maintenance, operations, reliability, and engineering.
Develops long-term horizon capital plans that incorporate current and future business performance needs, but also addresses risk of obsolescence.
The ideal candidate should possess the following:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
Prior experience in an engineering/technical related functions such as engineering, maintenance, reliability
Demonstrated growth in progressing technical assignments and responsibilities
Solid business acumen
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and build relationships
Capable of building, selling, and aligning areas on strategies
Effective, timely communication to team members and customers
Focus on customer needs in a highly supportive manner as key go to support resource
What We Offer You
We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:
Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
Paid time off (three-week minimum)
Medical, dental and vision starting day one
401(k) with employer match
Paid parental leave
Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
Tuition assistance
Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums
...and more!
First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.
First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.