Tech Operations & Facilities Leader

Mountaintop Beverage

Morgantown (WV)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

5 hours ago

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Job summary

Mountaintop Beverage is seeking a Head of Technical Operations to lead Environmental Health & Safety, Facilities & Utilities, and Process & Automation Engineering at our aseptic beverage facility. You will drive technical capability, safe operations, process performance, and automation strategy to support throughput and growth.

You will partner with Operations and Maintenance to improve asset performance, lead the LOTO program, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental health and safety, facilities management, construction management, or a related field preferred.
10+ years of related engineering experience required.
5–7 years of experience managing capital projects, budgets, and timelines for engineering and maintenance initiatives.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic leadership for the Process & Automation Engineering function, including process engineering, controls, automation strategy, system architecture, technical standards, and resource alignment.
Own blending, aseptic processing and filling, and downline capability, manufacturing throughput, yield, process stability, and overall production performance across the facility.
Establish engineering standards, operating parameters, best practices, and priorities for process optimization, automation improvements, commissioning activities, and technical capability development.
Partner with Operations and Maintenance & Reliability to resolve chronic manufacturing losses and improve operational performance.
Lead the facility Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) program, including documentation, implementation planning, production readiness requirements, and evaluation of partial LOTO and equipment break-in scenarios.
Lead facility safety infrastructure initiatives, including material-handling and pedestrian safety, confined-space documentation, tank motor maintenance methods, and commissioning safety signoffs.
Review and approve EH&S programs, procedures, and processes to ensure expectations are practical, documented, compliant, and consistently followed.
Create and own organization of structure of documentation and naming conventions within sharepoint.
Lead and manage the Facilities team, including work prioritization, resource planning, team development, facility maintenance activities, utilities, wastewater systems, and contractor coordination.