Plant Engineering Manager: Startup-Scale & Commissioning

Pave Talent; West Haven (CT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pave Talent is partnering with a publicly traded global specialty chemicals and electronic materials leader to fill the head of engineering role at a new manufacturing plant in the Northeast United States. This startup site combines startup agility with the resources of a large public company.

You will own the process design, commissioning, and scale-up, build the engineering team, and drive safety, quality, throughput, and cost improvements from day one.

Qualifications

• 8 to 12+ years of engineering experience with real leadership responsibility in a manufacturing plant.
• Chemical, specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, or semiconductor process manufacturing; high-volume or batch chemical is the closest fit
• Hands-on ownership of process optimization, equipment, root-cause analysis, and capital projects
• Continuous improvement results using Lean or Six Sigma
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, chemical, industrial, or a related engineering field
• Plant startup, commissioning, or new-line ramp experience
• Built engineering standards or an engineering team from scratch

Responsibilities

• Design, commissioning, and optimization of manufacturing processes, equipment, and tooling
• Measurable gains in safety, quality, throughput, and cost
• Root-cause analysis and corrective action on critical and recurring failures
• Capital projects from scoping and budget through installation and validation
• Reliability engineering and maintenance strategy for new equipment from day one
• Hiring, mentoring, and developing the site's engineers, including succession planning
• Technology transfer and standardization with research and development (R&D) and sister plants

Skills

Engineering leadership

Root-cause analysis

Lean Six Sigma

Capital projects

Safety leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, chemical, industrial engineering

Job description

Pave Talent is partnering with a publicly traded global specialty chemicals and electronic materials leader to fill the head of engineering role at a new manufacturing plant in the Northeast United States. This startup site combines startup agility with the resources of a large public company.

You will own the process design, commissioning, and scale-up, build the engineering team, and drive safety, quality, throughput, and cost improvements from day one.