Operations Engineering Manager

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Job Description:

High-potential engineering leader capable responsible for immediately strengthening equipment reliability, capital discipline, and systems-driven execution at the plant.  Explicit ownership of enterprise systems, capital justification, and vendor selection processes.

Equipment Reliability and Technical Leadership:

• Own the mechanical and/or electrical reliability strategy for the plant
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for chronic downtime, quality losses, and safety incident
• Drive improvements in preventive and predictive maintenance effectiveness

ERP & Maintenance Systems Ownership (SAP ECC/ MVP 1 to SAP S/4HANA):

• Own and lead the plant-level transition of the maintenance function from SAP ECC / MVP1 to SAP S/4HANA
• Serve as the primary business owner for maintenance processes during the S/4HANA migration
• Own asset master data, equipment hierarchies, BOMs, task lists, maintenance plans, and work order structures
• Lead definition and standardization of PMs, notifications, and maintenance workflows in S/4HANA
• Lead maintenance-related user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Own training, adoption, and post–go-live usage of S/4HANA maintenance functionality
• Use S/4HANA data and reporting to drive reliability, planning, and cost improvements

Capital Projects and Financial Justification (ROI Ownership):

• Own the development of capital project business cases from concept through approval
• Develop full financial justifications including ROI, payback period, NPV (where applicable), and total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Quantify benefits such as uptime improvement, labor reduction, safety risk mitigation, quality improvement, energy savings, and maintenance cost avoidance
• Prepare approval-ready capital packages aligned with corporate governance requirement

RFQ and Bid Package Development (End-to-End Ownership):

• Own the end-to-end development of RFQs and bid packages for capital equipment, systems, and engineering services
• Translate operational needs and conceptual designs into competitive, well-defined RFQ documents
• Develop bid packages from initial concept and design through final bid collection and comparison
• Define technical scope, performance requirements, assumptions, exclusions, and integration constraints
• Lead technical evaluation of bids and vendor alignment prior to award

Operational Leadership & Development:

• Provide technical leadership and escalation support to production and maintenance teams
• Coach supervisors and technicians in structured problem-solving and decision-making
• Participate in S&OP, staffing, and operational planning discussions
• Gradually assume broader operational leadership responsibilities as readiness is demonstrated

• Comply with all applicable customer, safety, ISO/IATF 16949 QMS, and ISO14001 EMS requirements.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

• Ability to professionally and efficiently correspond with leadership via phone and email.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to interact in a personable, professional and courteous manner to all.
• Ability to self-manage multiple projects and deadlines in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Maintain Mytex information in a confidential manner.
• Pursue constant improvement of customer service and professional skills.

•            Ability to maintain concentration with frequent interruptions.
•            Professional, well groomed appearance and attire is advised.
•       Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment

•       This position involves working in an office and manufacturing environment 

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Experience: 5+ years’ of manufacturing experience in a plant environment.
• Demonstrated hands-on troubleshooting and capital project experience
• Demonstrated people leadership and plant-level responsibility
• Strong understanding of the plastics industry.
• Familiar with an inventory management system, preferably SAP.

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$140,000. Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCGC) and any of our subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party agencies. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless specifically invited on the search by the MCGC Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the MCGC Talent Acquisition Team via our Applicant Tracking System.

EEO Statement

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