Job Description

P&G is the largest consumer packaged goods company in the world. We have operations in over 75 countries, with 65 trusted brands that improve lives for 5 billion consumers worldwide. This brings many advantages, including the opportunity for our employees to enjoy a diverse and rewarding lifelong career filled with new and exciting challenges.

We believe great ideas emerge from the creative connections that happen between our talented employees, and we encourage diverse, multi-functional teams to work together to generate new ideas to address challenges we face.

Family Care includes the Bounty, Charmin, and Puffs paper product brands with a large installed base of converting lines across the United States. The business has committed to use Platform Management systems to maintain standardization, migrate to standardized equipment, and has re-platformed portions of the fleet. This role leads the technical development and Platform Management of specific Features on converting lines that produce Bounty and Charmin and sets the strategic direction of the engineering work in those areas. Responsibilities will include multiple projects from a broad portfolio including technology developments, brand initiatives, cost savings projects, and continuous improvement activities.

Responsibilities:

Lead equipment platform management and drive performance and innovation plans including version management for features on the Family Care converting lines.
Partner with innovation resources and/or OEM vendors to develop and maintain the specifications for the converting modules including overall machine design, change parts, drawings, TT&T, CBA's, etc. Deliver the platform equipment scope to support initiatives and capacity project success.
Early Involvement in upstream technology development leveraging standardization and use of platform design, converting equipment systems, and equipment standards targeting Brand initiatives, savings, and capacity growth.
Partner with Operating Platform Team Leadership to ensure technical deliverables are supplied using platform systems.
Build capability in the manufacturing and technical communities, training those who interface with or use platform equipment.
Lead and participate in executing equipment improvement and standardization projects working with site and initiatives engineering organizations.

Qualifications

Education:

BS or MS Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial preferred but not required) or other related degree and/or work-related experience).

Skills and Qualifications:

Ideal candidate has demonstrated strong technical mastery and the ability to develop technical scope to meet project success criteria as well as the ability to deliver projects at cost and on schedule. Success in the role requires strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels, across functions, and at multiple locations.

Strong leadership skills. Ability to proactively influence project direction, gain enrollment and alignment of other functional groups & key stakeholders.
Capable to work effectively with others, manage interfaces and influence across organizations, functions, cultures, and regions.
Strong technical background and understanding of design principles for converting, mechanical, and process equipment including, but not limited to unwinding, rewinding, web handling, fluid application, material handling.
Technical understanding of manufacturing interaction between materials and equipment systems, i.e. process transformations or phenomenon including, but not limited to, the impact of raw material quality on equipment performance and the impact of equipment design on product design requirements.
Process skills to turn product and material requirements into equipment solutions.
An innovator who has demonstrated the capability to generate "outside the box" or creative solutions.
Familiarity or direct experience with platform management principles, processes, and systems.
Experience with Platform Equipment Change Management (ECM), SPIDER/Siemens Teamcenter, and version management systems is a plus.

Ability to lead development of equipment base package deliverables.
Basic project technical leadership with site experience & project management including financial justification, specifying equipment, RFQ's, purchase orders, purchasing, cost estimating, sourcing plans, project funding, shakedown, installation, PSI, PSU & start-up, staffing, and scheduling.
A passion for elevating standards (equipment, platform, operational, capability, etc.). Ability to improve existing technology via reapplication and optimization of industry benchmark technologies & through innovation.
Importantly, with external interfaces such as machine vendors.
Ability to manage priorities and capacity to work multiple commitments simultaneously.
Ability to assess required technical and organizational capabilities to deliver business needs.
There is approximately 20% business travel for this role to Family Care manufacturing locations and suppliers of equipment and engineering services

What we offer:

Responsibilities as of Day 1 – you will feel the ownership of your project from the beginning, and you will be given specific projects and responsibilities.
Continuous mentorship – you will work with passionate people and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager.
Work and be part of a dynamic and encouraging environment - working over a diverse array of interesting problems.
Promote agility and work/life balance for employees, we value every individual and support initiatives, promoting.
We love flexibility. You can arrange your work schedule based on your personal needs.
Experience true support for work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
Get a competitive salary and benefits' package.