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Manager, Engineering Projects needed in Plainfield, Illinois, United States of America

Published on September 18, 2023

Title: Project Engineer Manager

Level: 5 JR1085652

Hiring Manager: Engineering Director

Location: North America (US & Canada)
Full time
Minimum Salary
$100,470.00
Maximum Salary
$167,450.00

Context/Scope:

Position requires a strong knowledge of high-speed packaging lines (bottling & canning preferred), subject areas and duties including liquid processing, packaging, distillation, procurement and project management. Strong leadership and communication skills are critical for this role. The incumbent should be capable of innovative thinking and driven to maintain momentum, while maintaining a healthy industrial climate. The ability to prioritize and balance multiple projects, tasks and organizational needs in an environment that is always dynamic is a critical success factor. The project manager needs to be diverse enough to understand and track the needs of the business at the most economic cost and highest quality. Ideal candidate must be able to work with multi-functional teams to achieve business objectives.

Purpose of Role:

Responsible for leading the execution and delivery of projects and strategic programs across North America sites. To run Capital projects from ideation to start up, delivering them on time and on budget. This position requires close working relationship with Technical Operations, Brand Innovation, Brand Change and Procurement organizations.

Decision Making & Financial Responsibility

The Project Engineer is accountable for evaluating engineering and technical solutions to support capital projects across sites in NAM. The Project Manager is required to make decisions within the project and negotiate with suppliers or internal customers to help deliver the expectations for the benefit of Diageo, within policies and guidelines, delivering projects on time and within budget.

Management Responsibility

The Project Engineering Manager will provide support, coaching, and technical expertise to sites in North America. The intention of this role is to be the SME for Capex implementation and provide mentoring and support to project engineers and asset care managers as needed. Also providing guidance to site directors to help develop and update the 5-year strategic plan for the sites.

Key Outputs

Establish and effectively lead project budgets and objectives. Includes developing, supporting and implementing standardized project management requirements such as change control, training, construction management, scope development and consensus with team members on user requirements, justification, constraints and assumptions. Must be able to communicate project status, needs, and critical metrics to wide range of team members across the business.
Determine areas of opportunity for improvement in sites
Provide guidance and support to site engineering regarding design concepts, specifications, and requirements to best use equipment and manufacturing process.
Project scope development and management
Financial control of project budgets
Delivery and management of project schedules
Reputation of the team, i.e., how the project was achieved
Feasibility and costing studies
Capital spending plans development, support, and execution.
Responsible for understanding the manufacturing processes of the company and identifying areas where the cost/ benefit favours technology and automation.
Effectiveness of team, build team, handle interpersonal opportunities
Keeps abreast of best in class practices, and current or emerging manufacturing technologies to determine option and recommend improvements.