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Quality, efficiency, and safety all play a big role in our work at Danone. Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for the Supply Chain team. We are currently looking to hire a Manager, Corporate Innovation and Pack Engineer II based in either Louisville, CO, Dallas, TX, City of Industry, CA, Mount Crawford, VA, Bridgeton, NJ or Jacksonville, FL!

Job Description:

This position will support capability assessments and the industrialization of packaging, product, productivity, innovation, and renovation projects with a primary focus on PET – Blow fill bottle lines.

The Manager Corporate Innovation & Pack Engineer reports to the Sr Manager, Corporate Innovation & Pack Engineer. This individual is the single point of contact between vendors, manufacturing teams and cross functional project teams (PMO, Research & Innovation (R&I), Quality, etc.) working closely with the plant/corporate Engineers, Plant Industrialization Managers (PIM), the Vertical Start-up (VSU) Leader, and the line-centric team. This position will create the right processes to achieve key goals and influence project teams to implement data driven solutions and successful project completion.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive the design and execution of new PET bottle packaging lines. Leverage past-experience with “COMBI” blow-fill systems (KHS, KRONES, or SIDEL) as well as End of Line equipment, for single serve and multi-serve plastic bottles.
• Act as primary point-of-contact, on assigned projects, between vendors and Danone stakeholders from concept through handoff to plant team. To include safety, quality, operational, mechanical maintenance design and physical layouts.
• Support and coach plant team during installation/commissioning of PET Bottle projects. e.g. Administer technical guidance to ensure packaging installation is capable of the target production capacity, QFS standards, and EHS requirements.
• Work with 3^rd party safety consultants and vendors to evaluate machine/line safety and develop sustainable solutions.
• Develop commissioning and maintenance plans as well as support training of maintenance personnel and operators for bottle line projects, to ensure vertical start-ups / repeatable and reliable processes, and best in class performance.
• Develop relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders across functional teams including Marketing, Finance, QFS, engineering, Research & Innovation (R&I) and plant operations.
• Draft technical specifications / bid documents, support technical reviews of mechanical, electrical, and automation designs as well as equipment layouts / flows.
• Collaborate with CAPEX Procurement to develop summary documents to evaluate vendor solutions and determine best value and best partner for Danone (e.g. quote analysis, comparison and QTP)
• Provide engineering leadership through all phases of projects to deliver packaging initiatives, throughput, quality, cost, safety and reliability improvement efforts.
• Ensure adherence to company standards for equipment design, machine safety, and automation.
• Possess strong decision-making skills, working effectively under pressure. Possess the integrity to stand behind the Team decisions and the grit to work toward resolutions when things do not go as planned.