Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Greif is a global leader in performance packaging located in 40 countries. The SBU Engineering Manager is a senior engineering leader responsible for balancing business partnership, people leadership, and engineering execution across the assigned Strategic Business Unit to deliver safe, reliable, cost-effective, and scalable engineering outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a key engineering and business partner to SBU leadership team, actively contributing to SBU strategy, capital planning, and operational priorities
- Translates business needs into engineering roadmaps, capital plans, and resource strategies that balance near-term execution with long-term capability
- Leads and participates in SBU, regional, and enterprise strategic planning, including growth initiatives, cost optimization, and network investments
- Builds strong cross-functional relationships with Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Finance, Supply Chain, and other enabling functions to drive alignment and execution
- Seeks and integrates feedback from SBU leadership and peers to continuously improve engineering value delivery
- Shows and promotes a Global Engineering mindset. This specifically shows in leveraging the global footprint of Greif
- Leads, coaches, and develops the SBU engineering organization, creating a strong engineering bench and succession pipeline
- Establishes clear expectations, performance goals, and development plans for engineering team members
- Creates a culture of empowerment, accountability, continuous improvement, safety, and collaboration
- Responsible for staffing, onboarding, training, performance management, and colleague engagement
- Coaches engineering team on project management, standards, and effective cross-functional interactions
- Ensures engineering execution across SBU delivers: Reliable equipment solutions, Safety and regulatory compliance, Quality, cost, and schedule adherence, Selection of equipment for the right purpose
- Provides leadership oversight for: Plant facilities, equipment, tooling, automation, and machine standards, Design, development, acquisition, installation, maintenance, and upgrades
- Leads major SBU, regional, and network engineering projects as assigned
- Establishes and maintains a cadence of accountability for project execution, capital deployment, and engineering performance
- Monitors engineering KPIs, project performance, and capital spend; drives corrective actions and continuous improvement
- Owns SBU engineering budget execution, variance management, and forecasting in partnership with Finance
- Supports Maintenance Excellence and Lean Manufacturing initiatives across the SBU
- Develops and manages external engineering partners, suppliers, and contractors to support SBU priorities
- Ensures equipment safety standards are implemented and maintained in coordination with EH&S, reinforcing commitment-based safety practices
- Performs other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Engineering Required
- 10+ years of engineering and project management experience in a manufacturing environment
- 5+ years of experience leading engineers or technical teams
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives and capital programs
- Strong leadership capability with experience developing technical talent and future leaders
- Ability to balance business strategy, people leadership, and functional execution
- Strong project and capital management expertise
- Experience with lean manufacturing, maintenance excellence, and process improvement
- Financial acumen including budgeting, forecasting, and capital justification
- Strong communication, presentation, and influencing skills
- Ability to build trust and alignment across functional and organizational boundaries
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite
- Local candidates preferred within one of the specified locations
- Willingness to travel extensively as required up to 50% with uneven distribution and possibly short notice
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Paid time off
- Other competitive benefits which are available for eligible colleagues effective day one
- Short-term incentive
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