Engineering & Reliability Director (Bonus Eligible)

The Kraft Group & Affiliates; Worcester (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Eligible

Job summary

The Kraft Group & Affiliates is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead strategic initiatives across engineering, maintenance, facilities, and reliability for multiple corrugated manufacturing plants. You will standardize practices, drive capital projects, and align resources to maximize uptime, safety, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities include budgeting, KPI reporting, RCAs, and continuous improvement across the enterprise, with strong collaboration with plant leadership and the C-suite.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive engineering and maintenance leadership experience in manufacturing.
• Experience in corrugated packaging or related high-volume manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, TPM, predictive maintenance, CMMS, and asset management.
• Experience leading multi-site engineering or maintenance organizations.
• Knowledge of capital project management and equipment lifecycle planning.
• Excellent leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
• Attention to detail and ability to multi-task.

Responsibilities

• Develop 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 including capital investment, maintenance and repair vendors, asset replacement, and internal labor cost.
• Standardize preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance programs across all facilities with defined targets and CMMS reporting.
• Act as a key member of the Operations leadership team providing counsel on maintenance, reliability, and engineering.
• Coordinate engineering resources and maintenance priorities to complete enterprise initiatives on schedule and within budget.
• Establish, monitor, and report monthly KPIs for equipment uptime, maintenance costs, PM compliance, asset reliability, MTBF, MTTR, and backlog.
• Provide executive oversight of RCAs for significant equipment failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Partner with Operations to improve equipment performance, throughput, safety, and product quality.
• Oversee enterprise-wide capital planning for equipment modernization and engineering support for major projects.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement across all engineering and maintenance functions.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and engineering standards; track audit and deficiency resolution.
• Build organizational capability through succession planning and training.
• Special projects as required.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Maintenance management

Cross-site coordination

Budget management

KPIs & analytics

Root cause analysis

Safety & compliance

Project management

Leadership communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

CMMS

TPM

Asset management

Job description

The Kraft Group & Affiliates is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead strategic initiatives across engineering, maintenance, facilities, and reliability for multiple corrugated manufacturing plants. You will standardize practices, drive capital projects, and align resources to maximize uptime, safety, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities include budgeting, KPI reporting, RCAs, and continuous improvement across the enterprise, with strong collaboration with plant leadership and the C-suite.