WHO WE ARE

Essity is a global leader in health and hygiene headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with a North American headquarters located in Philadelphia, PA. We are a multi-billion-dollar company with a purpose to break barriers to well-being for the benefit of consumers, patients, care givers, and customers across the globe. We do this through innovations in our Professional Hygiene, Consumer Goods, and Health & Medical business units that provide hygiene and health solutions to over a billion people every day worldwide.
Working at Essity is more than a career, it is where you will play your part in a better future, to improve well-being for people and have opportunities to drive positive change for society and the environment. As an employee at Essity, you will belong to a team where you feel valued, are safe, supported to grow and challenged to generate business results in a friendly and open atmosphere.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Essity North America Health and Medical Solutions is currently seeking a Project Engineer to lead strategic Capital Expenditure (Capex) projects on the journey to develop Operational Excellence, meeting the growing regional and global demand for Advanced Wound Care medical products.
The ideal candidate should live in the Manchester, CT area or is willing to relocate.
We’re looking for people who embody our values, aren’t afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We’re always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we’d love to talk.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead Projects : Utilize best-practice Project Management, organizational, and communication skills in the day-to-day management of assigned projects as a project lead, or as a project support team member, throughout the lifecycle of a project; from project idea (start) to lessons learned (finish).
• Manage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): project budgets (cost), project plan (time), project deliverables (quality), and project team (resources) to deliver projects on time, in full.
• Contribute to Project Management Best Practices : Provide site-wide PMO improvements to people, processes, and products; aligned to the global PMO function.
• Continuous Improvement : Analyze current processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Finance : Align all investment and development projects with corporate financial systems for transparency, and status, generating and executing detailed project plans to achieve project success criteria.
• Sales & Marketing : Align site operational activities with Sales & Marketing teams (regional and global).
• Procurement : Identify and negotiate with external suppliers and equipment firms to explore manufacturing capabilities best to achieve site performance objectives.
• Quality : Direct the installation and validation of novel manufacturing methods in compliance with medical device quality standards including ISO 13485. Provide engineering support to Quality related to Non-Conforming Product and CAPA investigations.
• Engineering : Provide engineering support related to risk analysis tools including FMEA’s.
• Equipment : Validate activities associated with manufacturing equipment and processes including packaging and sterilization.
• Teamwork : Collaborate with manufacturing team including quality, finance, and section leaders.