Plant Engineering Manager (Meriden, CT) (New Health Care Company)

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Job Description:
Plant Engineering Manager (Meriden, CT) (New Health Care Company)

3M is establishing two industry-leading companies, creating value through the spin-off of its Health Care business, while 3M will continue to be a global material science leader, focusing our innovation to win in favorable global megatrends and attractive end markets. This new Health Care Company will be a leading global diversified health technology company with:

• Proven category leadership
• Exposure to attractive end-markets
• Innovation mindset driving improved patient outcomes
• Collaborative customer relationships
• Deep global regulatory experience
• Operational excellence and strong cash flow
• Strong sales growth and profitability with significant recurring sales

We expect the creation of the two companies will be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2024. We will continue to operate as one global company. This role is positioned to drive the success of the “New Health Care Company”.
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Plant Engineering Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leads site plant engineering and responsibility for staffing, budget attainment, workload forecasting, and succession planning.
• Develops and maintains the technical competency for the Plant Engineering team, provides leadership, coaching and direction to salary and hourly union resources.
• Determines and implements strategic and operational plans for Plant Engineering and Disruptive Technology to support overall business needs. Develops infrastructure renewal plans, leads overall investment to support production improvements, cost reduction and capacity, and manages overall capital investment for the site.
• Supports Management of Change (MOC) and Pre-Safety Start-up Review (PSSR) processes to ensure safe and effective implementation of change. Ensures Maintenance Conscious Engineering (MCE) considerations are raised during project team meetings as Plant Engineering/Maintenance representative.
• Supports and ensures environmental, health, safety, regulatory and intellectual property compliance. Provides direction for effective and consistent use of design standards and guidelines. Complies with professional and quality standards, corporate policies and procedures, and acts in a manner consistent with 3M’s values, practices and ethical standards.
• Evaluates equipment and maintenance history to determine and establish appropriate preventive maintenance requirements and/or to recommend predictive maintenance programs for optimizing effectiveness of maintenance procedures and maximizing reliability.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a Science or Engineering discipline AND ten (10) years of manufacturing experience

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a Science or Engineering discipline AND ten (10) years of manufacturing experienc

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Proven experience of managing a manufacturing, technical, or plant engineering organization to achieve operational objectives in EHS, Quality, Service and Cost
• LSS Black Belt Certification
• Experience leading salary and hourly union employees, and technical development and training of employees
• Project leadership experience
• Ability to work well with cross-functional peer team, provide leadership for a diverse organization, and influence skills to support positive change acceptance within the work team