Graham Packaging is a people, planet and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life.

For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here.

At Graham, we are united by a clear vision. We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce.

We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth.

Working across the North American plant network, the Operations Engineer will work with the plant operations staff of each assigned plant to drive operations excellence and help the plant with reaching its operational goals, strategies and metrics. Specific focus will be on proactive, preventive, and predictive maintenance as well as optimizing and replicating best practices and restoring flow in high pressure situations. Active engagement, training and development of the plant Technical Teams will be critical the success.

 

Job requires an elevated level of discipline in the development and execution of impactful projects to deliver the required results in the assigned plants. Use of and development of scope of work, bidding, business case, timelines and project tracking is critical to the role.

 

The Operations Engineer will also be asked to solve complex problems using critical problem-solving tools such as the A3 and 8D processes.

• Drive operations excellence: The Operations Engineer collaborates with plant operations to implement the best maintenance and reliability practices, emphasizing proactive and predictive maintenance and developing plant technical teams.
• Project leadership and management: The role requires disciplined project execution, including scope development, bidding, business case presentation, timeline management, and project tracking to meet plant goals on specific projects assigned.
• Problem solving and technical support: The engineer applies critical problem-solving tools such as A3, 8D, and FMEA to resolve complex technical issues and supports innovation and maintenance standardization efforts.
• Acts as support role for significant projects to support technical innovation.
• Use critical problem-solving tools (8D, A3, FMEA) to resolve technical problems.
• Acts as leader for assigned plant reviews by GPC’s leadership.
• Works with Teams to shape and develop strategic decisions.
• Utilizes Engineering Fundamentals of design to develop specification and scope of work documents.

• Prioritize and work independently on a variety of assignments with minimal supervision.

• Works with assigned plants to develop capital spending plans to exceed the plants AOP commitments.
• Develops scope of work, bid documents, and assembles and presents business case to GPC leadership for key plant improvement initiatives.
• Uses project management tools such as FMEA, MS Excel, MS Project, and action lists to track successful project execution to project closure including clear delivery of the project commitments and lessons learned.
• Manage projects, including timelines, resources and budgets.
• Develops positive working relationships to effectively coordinate work activities.
• Use strong influencing and communication skills to understand unique site needs and to effectively partner in delivering solutions.
• Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills.
• Maintains detailed accurate records and files.
• Documents issues and create action plans to solve issues in a short term and long-term manner.
• Work with plant and corporate support groups to drive improvement projects.
• Work with OEM, and third-party equipment vendors to develop technical solutions to persistent mechanical, quality, and process issues.
• Participate in Maintenance Standardization efforts across the business units.
• Analyze equipment and functional location work history data in the SAPPM system to assess opportunities to increase reliability and reduce maintenance costs, Predictive Maintenance.
• Assess and execute technical solutions to improve machine efficiency and effectiveness and/or reduce downtime.
• Ensure maintenance managers are engaged in the PM/PdM process and understand the options available from Operations Engineering.
• Create training programs to address specific needs of individuals and groups in plants.
• Train in one on one and group environments, both on the floor and in the classroom.
• Coach and mentor plant maintenance personnel.
• Evaluates/confirms the impact of corrective actions that impact availability and/or reliability and leverages solutions across plants/site if appropriate.
• Use data effectively to track progress and sustain results.
• Traveling up to 75% of the time, some international travel may be required.

 

Education, Skills and/or Work Experience Requirements

• B.S. In a technical or engineering field preferred or equivalent relevant experience 8 years plus.
• 8 + years’ experience as an operations manager, maintenance manager, process engineer, project manager, plant engineer or equivalent
• Proficient in problem solving and decision making, 8D, A3, RCA, FMEA
• Must have excellent understanding of industrial safety policies and practices.
• Strong working knowledge of statistics and analytical tools associated with quality systems.
• Ability to write technical documents and create step by step instruction sets for complex operations.
• Prior work experience with the following equipment is preferred.

Extrusion Blow Molding:

Blow Molders: Wheels, Shuttles, HRs, IML, and other automated downstream equipment.

Injection Molding:

Huskies/Uniloy, Robots, Dryers, Resin Conveying, Blending systems.

Stretch Blow Molding:    

            Single Stage and Two Stage equipment.

Container Handling:

Conveyors, Palletizers, Strappers, Wrappers, Bottle Unscramblers

Utilities support systems:

Compressors, Pumps, Chillers, Towers, Water Treatment

Inspection Systems:

Vision, Leak Detection

Labeling Systems:

Pressure Sensitive, Heat Transfer, In Mold, Shrink label

 

The standard compensation for this role is $94,600 - 141,900. Salary offers will be determined based on final candidate
qualifications, experience, skillset, and other relevant factors.

The expected salary range for the position described in this posting is made in accordance with the legal mandates of certain jurisdictions within the United States. The final agreed-upon compensation is based on individual qualifications and experience.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in the company’s 401K Employee Saving Plan and may participate in its Employee Wellness Program. Employees will also receive paid time off in accordance with company policy and state law requirements.

Graham Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, religion, creed, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.