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.

The Plant Technical manager leads the plant’s maintenance, technical and continuous improvement staff to derive maximum value from our equipment by improving machine safety, product quality and reliability. The Technical Manager has responsibility for fostering a high-performance, safety-minded culture and developing their teams of diverse backgrounds and skillsets. The Technical Manager uses their extensive experience and a solid practice of sound engineering fundamentals to provide technical guidance and decision making to their teams when required. 

 

The primary duties of a Plant Technical Manager include:

• Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Collaborate with operations to ensure manufacturing methods, processes and performance are in compliance and managed through a continuous improvement process. 
• Maintains overall responsibility for capital execution, process improvement and accountability for Maintenance. 
• Provides critical technical leadership for major capital projects and ensures production teams have solutions needed to drive safety, quality and performance plan. 
• In collaboration with the quality manager, develops, leads, and implements a plant quality assurance plan to reduce cost of poor quality (COPQ) by conducting gap analysis, identifying the strategy and tactics to bridge the gap using tools such as statistical process control (SPC), Pareto diagrams, etc. 
• Oversees efficient and effective design and execution efforts for plant capital and expense projects, meeting schedule and cost targets. 
• Drives continuous improvement efforts within current process technologies and in development and implementation of new technologies. 
• Maintains overall accountability for management of external technical relationships with contractors, and equipment vendors. 
• Provides site leadership to achieve maximization/optimization of capital assets and site utilization as well as lead safety initiatives in technical areas. 
• Develop and support strategies that integrate vertical start up (VSU), CI and Zero Loss Culture methodologies into the Master Plan. 
• Provide site leadership for technical solutions to operational problems including systems optimization, debottlenecking, and troubleshooting 
• Accountable for the strategy, design and implementation of control systems and manufacturing information systems 
• Coach and develop Maintenance and Facilities team to integrate Maintenance into Zero Loss Culture. 
• Provide strategy and support for maintenance programs, development of tools and resources, personnel selection, training and development.
• Integrate Maintenance into the strategy for the broader technical community at the plant. 
• Lead and support plant continuous improvement initiatives.

Core Proficiencies and Skills:

 

Plant technical managers are required to interact with other functional managers, employees, vendors, and customers. Therefore, the following skills and proficiencies are also essential of the position:

• Ability to maintain regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.
• Computer usage and typing skills are essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service.
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.
• Collaborates well with others: proactively contributes to group objectives; volunteers to help others.
• Ability to identify potential business solutions a broad scope of thinking across businesses and functions to develop new innovation

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Education and/or Work Experience: 

• A Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or technical filed and/or related operations experience; or equivalent combination of education and related operations experience is highly preferred. 
• A minimum of fifteen years’ experience in an operations supervisory or management role in a manufacturing environment with demonstrated leadership skills strongly preferred. 
• Strong track record of engineering aptitude, ability to apply engineering principles, and problem solving. 
• Strong leadership skills, including experience leading others in projects or programs, and the ability to successfully interact with individuals representing other areas or interests and the ability to manage team leaders & mechanics 
• Understanding and experience interacting with multiple business functions, including Quality Control, Purchasing, Distribution, Human Resources, Finance and especially Operations

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.