Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
Role Summary
The Head of Engineering North America will provide strategic leadership for Huhtamaki North America engineering , involving setting the technical vision, improving equipment safety and performance, managing the engineering and equipment manufacturing teams, and ensuring capital projects discipline. Key responsibilities include defining and implementing engineering processes, managing budgets and timelines, hiring and developing talent, and collaborating with other departments like operations mgt, product mgt, and NA leadership. The role requires a blend of technical expertise, strong leadership, strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Team and Talent management: Lead, manage, and mentor engineering teams, establish hiring processes, and foster an inclusive culture with technical growth opportunities.
- Technical Strategy and Execution: Define technical vision, OEM strategies, and ensure the delivery of high quality and reliable equipment/products
- Project Management: Develop and oversee budgets and timelines to ensure capital projects are delivered on time and within scope.
- Process and Quality Improvement: Develop and implement engineering solutions and processes to improve quality and efficiency, including setting standard practices.
- Cross functional collaboration: Work with Heads of operations, product management, and NA leadership to align engineering resources with overall business objectives.
Key skills
- Strategic thinking: The ability to develop long-term technical plans and align them with overall business goals.
- Leadership and management: Strong skills in mentoring, team-building, and inspiring high performance.
Qualifications
- At least 10 years of manufacturing experience.
- At least 5 years of manufacturing managerial experience.
- Mechanical, Industrial, Chemical engineering degree or related field.
- Food packaging experience is preferred.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
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What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030. We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
