Engineering & Reliability Director, Multi-Site

The Kraft Group; Worcester (MA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

Job summary

The Kraft Group seeks a Director of Engineering to lead engineering, maintenance, facilities and reliability across multiple corrugated plants. This executive role develops a unified maintenance and asset-reliability strategy, aligning resources and standardizing practices with plant leadership to maximize uptime, safety, productivity and cost efficiency.

This position partners with the VP of Operations and C-Suite to drive capital planning, KPI reporting, RCAs, and continuous improvement across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field required.
• 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, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an annual enterprise-wide engineering, maintenance, and reliability strategy.
• Develop and manage an annual maintenance and engineering budget with ROI focus.
• Standardize preventive, predictive, and reliability maintenance programs across facilities.
• Act as a key member of Operations leadership to advise on maintenance and engineering.
• Coordinate engineering resources to complete enterprise initiatives on schedule and budget.
• Establish, monitor, and report monthly KPIs for uptime, costs, MTBF/MTTR, backlog.
• Provide executive oversight of RCAs and implement corrective actions to reduce recurrence.
• Partner with Operations to improve equipment performance, safety, and quality.
• Oversee capital planning for equipment modernization and major projects.
• Champion continuous improvement and standardization across maintenance and reliability.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Maintenance leadership

Corrugated packaging

Reliability-centered maintenance

CMMS

Capital project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

CMMS

Job description

The Kraft Group seeks a Director of Engineering to lead engineering, maintenance, facilities and reliability across multiple corrugated plants. This executive role develops a unified maintenance and asset-reliability strategy, aligning resources and standardizing practices with plant leadership to maximize uptime, safety, productivity and cost efficiency.

This position partners with the VP of Operations and C-Suite to drive capital planning, KPI reporting, RCAs, and continuous improvement across