About Us:
BW Packaging is driving performance at the intersection of people, technology, and customer care. As part of the privately held Barry-Wehmiller family, we unite a global team of packaging experts with a clear purpose: People Who Care, Building Solutions that Perform. We take on our customers’ toughest challenges as our own — delivering both innovative and enduring solutions that set the standard for value and performance. Our strength comes from our people and the power of our brands — trusted names in packaging that are known worldwide for engineering excellence, application expertise, and lifetime commitment to customer success. Truly Human Leadership guides our belief that exceptional business results and profound respect for people together provide the foundation of enduring success. We are committed to forging lasting partnerships with our customers, earning their trust through integrity, expertise, and execution. With our full range of packaging solutions and long term partnership and service, we help customers achieve operational excellence today while building the future of packaging together.
Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.
Job Description:
The Site Innovation Leader is accountable for the technical output of the site innovation engineering team and is responsible for defining work plans as well as mentoring and coaching engineers. This leader is deeply technical and serves as an advisor to project teams, engineers, and product line managers. The role plays a critical part in collaborating with product line leaders to understand market needs and ensuring local teams develop marquee products for target markets. This leader will ensure teams are delivering against design standards and will execute best practices in agile innovation development. Finally, this individual will provide insightful leadership to their team members by encouraging them to discover, develop, and apply their talents, enabling them and the business to reach their full potential.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leading in-person teams in multiple locations of mechanical and electrical innovation engineers. This is not a remote role.
- Collaborate with product line leaders to understand strategic roadmaps, ensure a robust innovation portfolio, prioritize innovation projects, and gather market requirements.
- Lead innovation project teams in translating market requirements into engineering specifications and oversee project teams in development and launch of innovation projects.
- Work with product line leaders to develop innovation milestones and oversee the execution of milestones and stage gates to deliver commitments in a timely fashion.
- Manage resources through detailed project and capacity planning.
- Implement innovation project management processes and utilize tools for agile, high-speed output.
- Coach teams in developing products to design standards and engineering excellence, including modularity and configurability.
- Define work plans for teams, ensure process adoption and governance, and ongoing mentoring/ coaching of engineers.
- Continually assess, understand, and present emerging and/or competitive technologies relevant to target markets/customers.
- Lead technical discussions and serve as a subject matter expert as needed, including the provision of input and direction across the engineering organization and to those outside immediate span of care.
- Recruit and develop talent; manage team performance including goals and objectives.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in an Engineering discipline
EXPERIENCE
- 10+ years’ engineering experience showing increasing levels of complexity and responsibility
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, COMPETENCIES
- Excellent project management & organizational skills.
- Deep technical curiosity, courage, and drive for advancing ambitious ideas, while balancing and mitigating associated risks.
- Strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving approach.
- Strong mechanical and/or electrical aptitude and engineering fundamentals.
- Ability to lead, track, and advance multiple projects concurrently.
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Adept at setting and balancing goals, objectives, and priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Excellent team leader, with proven ability to motivate and inspire team members by creating an environment that promotes respect, accountability, and continuous improvement.
OTHER
- Ability to travel, which may include internationally – up to 25% travel.
- Must have a valid driver’s license, good driving record, and the ability to obtain a passport.
PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Global team experience
- Previous experience leading a team
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At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work—therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
Company:
BW Packaging
