Director of Manufacturing Engineering

Passionate about people development, process design and OEE, our Director of Manufacturing Engineering will elevate our Engineering team to meet the technical challenges of our fast-growing business. Capital project management, food plant design, and continuous process improvement are at the core of your technical and business skills. You understand what it takes to build and maintain a best-in-class facility. You thrive in a fast-changing environment requiring critical thinking, quick decision making, personnel development, and performance accountability.

You understand how to work collaboratively with the Engineering and Maintenance teams and the key stakeholders involved in your team’s projects. Your guidance helps to ensure that the technical team develops solutions that move the business forward and you work successfully with our partners to implement them.

SUCCESS FACTORS (first 12-18 months)

The Success Factors below outline the key contributions we see you making as you add incredible value to our team.

People & Team Development Leader: You will develop your team of capable engineers to scale their skills and abilities to meet the growing technical challenges of the business. You are an inspiring leader that ensures your team, from entry to senior level engineers, are thriving and delivering against strategic priorities. You will build capability within the team through your mentoring, coaching, and support of their progress and contributions.

Flavor Processing Innovation: You will work with your team to develop innovative best-in-class manufacturing solutions for the expansion of capacity and or process improvements of our products. Your range of experience will support improvements in our processing productivity while optimizing the use of capital. You are empowering our people-culture by designing complex systems that are easy to use and safe to operate. You successfully manage a variety of processing projects and new plant designs that will help scale our production capabilities.

Packaging Line Guru: You identify the best-in-class advancements for filling and packaging equipment as you lead the implementation of syrup capacity improvements and entire package line designs. You will design and successfully complete cold and hot filling applications. You understand how to make and operate the self-manufacture of PET bottles using the latest bottle blowing systems. You are a respected thought partner for the Procurement team when it comes to packaging equipment negotiations and maintenance agreements.

Continuous Improvement Champion: Your passion for streamlining operations to continuously improve OEE will fuel the successful implementation of reliability improvement programs. You will apply your working knowledge of lean 6 sigma tools to identify root cause and eliminate inefficiencies and waste. You work with our team to implement preventative maintenance programs that sustainably increase our uptime performance.

Capital Project Management Expert: You will lead and support several of the Engineering team’s multi-million-dollar food and beverage projects from successful startup to full production operation. You will also lead your team through the capital project prioritization process to identify the projects that best support Torani’s safety and business objectives. Your experience designing and implementing facilities, systems and documents will allow us to meet all the local and state permits and codes. You will be responsible for the design supervision and management of a sizable portion of a strategic capital project.

Have Fun! You understand that having fun at work is a vital component of engagement. You embrace our warm and lighthearted culture and actively contribute to creating a fun and inclusive atmosphere through your daily interactions.

You’ll be successful in this role if you have….

• B.S. in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering (other disciplines may be considered).
• 10 years of prior experience successfully managing engineering teams.
• Expertise in all facets of process design of best-in-class automated high-volume processing Food, Beverage, or Bioprocessing facilities.
• Successfully managed at least one food, beverage, or bioprocess and or packaging related capital project from design to construction with a value of greater than $15 Million successfully, PMP certification a plus.
• Experience developing PFDs, P&IDs, construction documents, and have built complex processing systems greater than $10 million.
• Specification and selection of high-speed bottling equipment, Monobloc Fillers, Labelers, Capsular, Vision inspection, Case Packers, Depalletizer and Palletizers.
• Experience or knowledge of Hot fill or aseptic filling design, equipment, and operations.
• PET bottle blowing equipment and operations is a plus.
• Negotiation and purchasing of equipment and maintenance agreements.
• Project experience ensuring drawings and construction closeout meet all local and state permitting requirements.