Development Engineer - Closures

Development Engineer - Closures

Company: Rieke LLC

Primary Location: 500 W 7th Street, Auburn, IN 46706 USA

Employment Type: Salaried | Full-Time

Function: Engineering

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Job Summary:
The Development Engineer will coordinate and manage engineering and technical development projects utilizing our Phase Gate process to ensure successful results.

Leadership Responsibilities:
Oversees various aspects of workflow, core team selection, budget allocation, and scheduling of the assigned projects.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Facilitates and contributes to the development of project plans, scoping, timelines, and budgets.
• Plans, organizes, and leads technical projects for multiple facilities.
• Recommends and/or analyzes materials, equipment, and practices used for the project.
• Assesses the competence, capabilities, resources, or financial stability of vendors.
• Leads the core team in executing project goals.
• Ensures projects are on-time, on-budget, and in-full.
• Collaborates with design team to change project plans if the need arises.
• Analyzes equipment, systems, labor, technology, and processes, to identify modifications to improve efficiency, increase quality, and reduce costs.
• Prepares periodic project status reports for leadership.
• Ensures compliance with safety, codes, guidelines, best practices, and policies.
• Collaborates with the operations team to identify and resolve issues.
• Collaborates with project engineers from other plants to share problems and solutions.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in related engineering discipline or
  at least ten years of experience in managing technical projects preferably
  in a plastics process manufacturing environment.
• At least three years of experience leading
  multidisciplinary/cross functional technical teams.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written
  communication skills.
• Excellent budgeting and cost
  containment skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to
  detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability
  to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and
  problem-solving skills.
• Strong project leadership skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft
  Office Suite or related software.