Product Engineering Manager

Join the Family - Come work for an exciting company offering great benefits, challenging opportunities, and colleagues who feel more like family. Job Summary Overview The Engineering Manager is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and oversight of all engineering activities at the Red Diamond Plant. This role is accountable for the development of engineering personnel, execution of the site's capital portfolio, implementation of engineering standards, and delivery of continuous improvement initiatives aligned with the site's strategic objectives. The Engineering Manager leads a multi-disciplinary team including Controls, Process, Mechanical, and Project Engineers and is responsible for ensuring resources are effectively prioritized and utilized to support plant safety, reliability, productivity, quality, and cost objectives. The Engineering Manager is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, justifying, and executing capital and improvement projects that support the site's strategic goals. This role maintains ownership of the site engineering project portfolio, typically consisting of 10-20 active projects and approximately $10MM in annual capital spending. Key Responsibilities and Duties Capex Program - Own the site capital project portfolio, ensuring projects are prioritized and aligned with business objectives and strategic plans. - Lead the site capital planning, review, and prioritization process. - Develop and maintain short and long-term capital improvement roadmaps. - Provide engineering input and realistic cost estimates to support business cases and capital requests. - Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and achieve expected business benefits. - Monitor capital spending, committed costs, and forecast accuracy throughout the year. - Establish project management standards, templates, and governance processes. - Conduct routine project portfolio reviews and communicate project status, risks, resource constraints, and mitigation plans to site leadership. - Work closely with the Site Manager to develop annual and long-range capital plans. - Approve engineering aspects of capital requests prior to submission. Safety, Health, and Environment - Ensure engineering compliance with all applicable Process Safety Management requirements. - Serve as a key stakeholder in the site's Management of Change (MOC) process and ensure engineering-owned actions are completed on time. - Participate in Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), Hazard Reviews, and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) studies. - Ensure engineering standards, safeguards, and risk reduction measures are properly implemented and maintained. - Drive closure of engineering-related PHA, audit, incident investigation, and compliance actions. - Support the development and maintenance of safe operating envelopes, process safety information, and engineering documentation. - Partner with Operations, Maintenance, and SHES teams to identify and reduce process safety risks. Other Key Responsibilities and Duties Engineering Integrity - Implement and maintain APHC engineering standards for all plant equipment and installations, ensuring these standards are complied with. - Ensure that APHC SHES standards are implemented in all aspects of engineering. - Check that all necessary engineering controls are implemented and working as required. - Continually implement an Austin engineering audit program and ensure compliance. - Provide necessary recruitment and training of engineering personnel and complete engineering audits to ensure compliance. Project Management