Title:  Mgr. I, Plant Engineering / Maintenance & Engineering Manager

Maintenance and Engineering Manager

Graphic Packaging International, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading provider of packaging solutions for a wide variety of products to food, beverage and other consumer products companies.  The Company is one of the largest producers of folding cartons and holds a leading market position in coated-unbleached Kraft board and coated-recycled board. One of its facilities is currently seeking an experienced Maintenance and Engineering Manager at the plant in Fort Smith, AR that is part of the Consumer Products Division.

Job Functions:

• Provide direct supervision, technical direction, administrative management, and leadership in the maintenance and engineering areas.
• Responsible for the management of all equipment, site, and facility maintenance and utilities.
• Manage plant-wide maintenance and capital program maximizing asset reliability, uptime, and cost effectiveness with available resources.
• Manage plant environmental programs to ensure compliance with Federal, State and local regulations.
• Provides long-range planning for the facility and equipment needs including capital and major repairs.
• Develops, implements and oversees predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance programs.
• Uses other maintenance disciplines in the development and application of reliability engineering, root-cause analysis and troubleshooting of equipment and processes.
• Coaches and develops training plans for all maintenance technicians.
• Supervises Maintenance Supervisor, Storeroom, and Planner functions.

• Directly involved in responsibilities /actions related to Prerequisite and Food Safety Programs.
• In the absence of RCM Manager, daily responsibilities will be transferred to Production Manager or Maintenance Supervisor.

• Follow all Plant rules, Processes, Hygiene, and Allergens procedures, related to production of Safe Quality Foods.
• Report to person of authority to record any potentially unsafe conditions which may result in unsafe foods or noncompliance to SQF related procedures.
• Participate in SQF Root Cause and Corrective Actions (from customer complaints, SQF audits, validation, and verification activities) as required.
• Reporting of any customer complaints to persons responsible to enter into GPI’s Customer Complaint system for root cause analysis and appropriate corrective action taken.

• Follow all procedures related to producing Safe Quality Foods (SQF).
• Report any potentially unsafe SQF conditions or customer complaints to a person of authority to record and/or correct the situation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from a 4 year institution in Engineering or related field and 5-10 years maintenance experience including: 

• Computer Maintenance Management Systems use and implementation (preferably SAP)
• Planning and Scheduling
• Preventative/Predicative/Precision Maintenance
• Central Stores Management
• Reliability Engineering  

• Proven track record of identifying opportunities and the ability to recommend and implement improvements. 
• Project Management.
• Must be a leader with exceptional communication skills, good organization, and the ability to communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Previous environmental experience is a plus.

Graphic Packaging International offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package:

• 401K Plan
• Dental, Medical, Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vacation
• Educational Assistance

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Graphic Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, handicap, or disability, marital status, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Click here to view the EEO is the Law Poster.

Required Experience

At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities. With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful. If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you. Learn more about us at www.graphicpkg.com.

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Graphic Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, age, gender or sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic identity, genetic information, disability, veteran/military status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Click here to view the Poster, EEO is the Law.