Plant Engineer

From a small family business to a multi-billion-dollar global company, Sonoco has been changing the face of products and packaging since 1899 — all while keeping the heart of “People Build Businesses” alive.

Our talented people are at the core of our growth, constantly reinventing the Sonoco wheel with brilliant solutions every year. Today we are a world leader in global packaging solutions with diversified operations in over 34 countries. We're extremely proud of our portfolio of brands, our achievements in sustainability and industrialization and the groundbreaking work accomplished by our people. 

We are currently seeking a Plant Engineer to join our Menasha team!

You will Plan, organize, and direct the Menasha Mill maintenance department activities to ensure employee safety, proper preventative maintenance and maximum uptime and efficiency in all areas of the mill.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supervise the daily activities of (all trades) millwrights, electricians, maintenance coordinators and pipefitters; oversee the work of other support crafts as needed.
• Continually improve safety results by addressing both physical safety issues and employee safety behaviors. Ensure that all health and safety guidelines are followed by all employees.
• Direct maintenance department to eliminate physical safety hazards that have been turned in by employees.  Lead residual risk reduction activities as needed.
• Manage and execute capital efficiently, timely and on budget.
• Manage hourly craft schedules and prioritize work.
• Lead the maintenance branch of the mill’s continuous improvement program.
• Lead the apprenticeship selection process & development from educational opportunities.
• Gain in-depth understanding of the process flow at the mill.
• Develop and manage the annual maintenance budget.  Participate in monthly forecasting meetings and report any positive or negative variances from budget.
• Make tours daily checking for maintenance problems, conferring with production personnel regarding work orders and inspecting jobs being carried out.
• Ensure that maintenance work is carried out at a minimum cost in labor, materials, and lost production.
• Maintain the mill preventative maintenance program, including vibration analysis, electrical equipment maintenance, IR scanning, and medium voltage testing.
• Perform troubleshooting when equipment is not operating properly.  Lead root cause and corrective action team meetings to eliminate repeat failures.
• Maintain harmonious relations with employees by administering contract provisions and company policies to avoid breach of contract, to ensure conformance to work rules and regulations and to administer appropriate disciplinary measures when necessary.
• Manage outside contracted labor resources for projects or repairs including price bidding, review of staffing requirements, and daily work direction.
• Plan and oversee machine maintenance outages for staffing of internal and external labor requirements, proper job scope and critical time path adherence.
• Supervise operation of the storeroom and ensure critical spare parts are available.
• Manage all necessary inspections, including, but not limited to, calibration testing, SPCC for mill oil systems, pressure vessel inspections, safety relief valve testing, crane inspections, fire system inspections, water inspections, sling & hoist inspections, and ensure adherence to NFPA 70E, etc.
• Issue purchase requisitions for outside services, machine parts and contracted labor.
• Participate in the investment process by estimating equipment and installation costs.  Recommend equipment for investment based on replacement needs, ROI, and risk.  Perform project management duties for installation of investments.
• Maintain complete engineering files for all proposed and installed projects.
• Sustain 5S results in shop areas.
• Track and monitor KPI’s including but not limited to breakdown loss hours, planning effectiveness, shutdown timeline compliance, labor utilization, and cycle counts.  Generate improvement projects as needed.

This position is in Menasha, WI.

We’d love to hear from you if:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, or technical field
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience with increasing responsibility in manufacturing and labor union environment, preferably in the pulp and paper industry
• Strong communicator with leadership skills, independent thinking, organization, and planning abilities
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills are essential.
• Team player looking for a challenging new opportunity

Compensation:

The annual base salary range for this role is from $118,880 to $133,740, plus a monthly target bonus of 12.5% of base salary.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.