Jr Project Engineering Manager

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

 

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

• Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits 
• Child Care Benefits
• Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
• Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
• 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
• Medical, dental, vision plan
• Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
• Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
• Paid vacation; paid holidays

 

What You Will Enjoy Doing 

 

Main Responsibilities: 

• Assist with directing and managing project development from beginning to end to include, defining project scope, goals, success criteria, project plans, and deliverables that support business goals. 

• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion, and delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel. 

• Assist with ensuring correct information for quotations (Cost, Feasibility, Cycle time estimation, Efficiencies, Machine and mold configuration, Secondary packaging layout), and then draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend changes when necessary. 

• Assist with estimating and negotiating with other internal and external functional areas for required personnel, and any additional staff and/or consultants that may be necessary during project cycle. 

• Assist with setting and continually managing project expectations with team members and other stakeholders, and resolve issues and conflicts when necessary. 

• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools, and manage project dependencies and critical path for optimized scheduling. 

• Assist with developing and delivering progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations. 

• Assist with proactively manage project scope changes according to the standard process, along with rebase lining revised plans. 

• Assist with conducting project Lessons Learned and post mortems and create recommendations in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements. 

• Facilitate full production line trials including product & equipment qualifications. 

• Create and maintain corporate databases (eMis, MP2, layouts, etc) according to ALPLA standards. 

• Maintain global service contracts. 

• Support local service agreements by setup negotiations and giving technical support to the plants. 

 

 

What Makes You Great

 

Education/Experience:  

 

•  Four year degree in engineering, project management or equivalent experience
•  Good understanding of technical and financial aspects of Alpla’s processes.
•  Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, including MS Project, AUTOCAD.
•  Technical Engineering background, prefer mechatronic experience.

 

  

Qualifications/Skills: 

 

•  Good organizational skills
•  Good leadership skills
•  Good communication skills
•  Strong analytical and problem solving skills
•  Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision
•  Good computer skills, proficient with MS office applications and AUTOCAD
• Travel up to 70%

 

 

Physical Demands

 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job: 

 

•  The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance. 
•  The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
•  The employee is occasionally required to sit.
•  The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs.
•  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

 

  

It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #salaried #SVC

 

 

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

 

 

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