Americas Technical Manager

Greif offers a great working environment and the opportunity to make an immediate impact at a company where your ideas are always welcome.

Job Requisition #:
031987 Americas Technical Manager (Open)

Job Description:

Greif Packaging LLC seeks Americas Technical Manager at its facility located at 290 E Fullerton Ave, Carol Stream, IL  60188.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Responsible for scheduling, planning, forecasting, and managing the technical department activities to lead to product performance improvements, product development, standardization, and innovation, ensuring global standards are adopted and promoted.  Provide support to external and internal customers.  Assist operations, sales, and product management teams to provide product solutions that lead to share growth or new business.  Lead the NA Test Center, Americas Tool Room, and Product Engineering team.  Prioritize the NA Test Center activities in Alsip, set targets and goals for the department, develop product testing plan, analyze data, establish improvement actions and report on performance.  Support operations and quality department on critical customer complaints, create and execute relevant DOE (design of experiments) to identify root cause, define sustainable corrective actions.  Lead the NA Tool Room, setting targets and goals for the department, analyze data, execute on improvement actions and report on performance.  Manage and coordinate product engineering team on product performance improvements and development projects, ensuring that project/department milestones/goals are met adhering to time and approved budgets.  Evaluate and resolve technical feasibility, product design optimization, and production issues.  Manage projects to improve product efficiency and develop the justification for long-term investment.  Research and monitor product base, customer base, and industry developments and identify potential new products or processes.  Maintain regular dialogs with product manager, and sales and marketing to identify market and product opportunities, join customer visits, identify customer needs, and propose solutions.  Stay up to date with new technologies and materials.  Coordinate with Product Management team to develop and maintain product specifications to drive product standardization globally.  Liaise with external vendors and service providers as needed.  Assist sourcing to develop raw material specifications and support on material testing and validation.  40% domestic and international travel required.

REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of experience as a Technical Manager, Plant Manager, or related occupation in the industrial packaging industry.  Additionally, the applicant must have employment experience with:  (1) Utilizing SolidWorks and AutoCAD to design and interpret technical product drawings; (2) Implementing...