Director of Engineering

Rand-Whitney; Quinsigamond Village (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rand-Whitney seeks a Director of Engineering to provide strategic leadership for engineering, maintenance, facilities, and reliability across multiple corrugated plants. You will standardize best practices, align resources, and drive continuous improvement while coordinating capital projects and budgets.

The role partners with plant leadership to maximize uptime, safety, productivity, and cost effectiveness, reporting KPI progress and leading RCA follow-ups to prevent recurrence across the

Qualifications

• Requires 12+ years in engineering and maintenance leadership within manufacturing.
• Experience in corrugated packaging or high-volume manufacturing is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of TPM, reliability-centered maintenance, CMMS and asset management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an enterprise-wide engineering, maintenance, and reliability strategy.
• Manage annual budgets for capital, maintenance, and labor costs.
• Standardize preventive and predictive maintenance programs across facilities.
• Provide leadership to align resources and drive capital project execution.
• Establish KPIs for uptime, MTBF/MTTR, and maintenance backlog.

Skills

Leadership

Maintenance leadership

Reliability engineering

CMMS

TPM

Budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

RCA

Safety

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

CMMS

ERP systems

Job description

Bonus Eligible: YesSUMMARYThe Director of Engineering provides strategic leadership for engineering, maintenance, facilities, and reliability initiatives across multiple corrugated manufacturing plants. This position develops a unified maintenance and asset reliability strategy, aligns engineering resources across facilities, and ensures maintenance efforts are coordinated to maximize equipment availability, safety, productivity, and cost effectiveness. The role partners closely with plant leadership to standardize best practices, prioritize capital improvements, and drive continuous improvement across the enterprise.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESDevelop and execute an annual enterprise-wide engineering, maintenance, and reliability strategy with defined targets for uptime, maintenance cost, planned maintenance compliance, safety, and capital project execution.Develop, manage, and meet an annual maintenance and engineering budget to include capital investment, maintenance and repair vendors, asset replacement, and internal labor cost. This will be measured in part through overall effect on revenue, EBITA, and year-over-year ROI on the businessStandardize preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance programs across all facilities, including common preventative maintenance compliance targets, inspection standards, and CMMS reporting requirements.Act as a key member of the Operations leadership team providing counsel to the VP of Operations and C-Suite leaders on all aspects of maintenance, reliability, and engineeringCoordinate engineering resources and maintenance priorities to complete approved enterprise initiatives on schedule, within budget, and according to defined operational requirements.Establish, monitor, and report monthly KPIs for equipment uptime, maintenance costs, PM compliance, asset reliability, MTBF, MTTR, and maintenance backlog to drive continuous improvement.Provide executive oversight of enterprise root cause analyses (RCAs) for significant equipment failures and implement sustainable corrective actions ensuring corrective actions are implemented, validated, and recurrence rates are reduced through documented follow-up.Partner with Operations to improve equipment performance, throughput, safety, and product quality using agreed-upon metrics such as downtime, OEE, scrap, safety incidents, and customer quality defectsOversee enterprise-wide capital planning for equipment modernization and engineering support for major projects, including capital roadmap from business case through design, vendor selection, installation, commissioning, startup, and post-project performanceChampion a culture of continuous improvement across all engineering and maintenance functions by standardizing maintenance planning, CMMS governance, reliability processes, and performance management practices. Utilize enterprise maintenance and reliability metrics to identify opportunities, eliminate inefficiencies, reduce reactive maintenance, improve asset performance, and drive operational excellence across all manufacturing facilities.Ensure compliance with applicable safety, environmental, and engineering standards, measured by audit results, corrective-action closure rates, regulatory findings, incident trends, and timely resolution of identified deficiencies.Build organizational capability, measured by completion of annual succession plans, leadership development goals, technical training completion rates, bench-strength assessments, retention of key roles, and improvement against workforce capability gaps.Special projects and assignments as business dictatesResponsible for the maintenance, creation and control of all personally identifiable information or any other information protected by any Confidentiality or Privacy Standards or Company Policies that you have access or knowledge of, including but not limited to any state or federal regulations including HIPAASUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIESDirector of Facilities and MaintenanceAssistant Maintenance ManagerMaintenance ManagerSKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONSBachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field required. Master’s degree in a related field preferred.12+ years of progressive engineering and maintenance leadership experience in manufacturing required.Experience in corrugated packaging or related high-volume manufacturing required.Strong knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, TPM, predictive maintenance, CMMS, and asset management required.Experience leading multi-site engineering or maintenance organizations required.Knowledge of capital project management and equipment lifecycle planning.Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.Must have attention to detail and focused concentration.Must be able to learn new tasks and complete tasks independently.Must be able to make timely decisions in the context of the workflow.Must possess strong organizational skills, ability to multi-task and responsiveness.PHYSICAL DEMANDSRegularly required to stand, walk, climb, kneel, crouch, and crawl during plant visits.Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.WORK ENVIRONMENTFrequent travel between multiple corrugated manufacturing facilities.Regular exposure to manufacturing environments with moving mechanical equipment, noise, dust, and varying temperatures.Hearing protection required in production areas.CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONSProfessional Engineer (PE) license preferred.Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) preferred.Lean Six Sigma certification preferred.OTHER DUTIESPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.This company is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.#LI-KG