Plant Technical Manager

Graham Packaging is seeking a Plant Technical Manager in Muskogee, OK, responsible for leading maintenance and technical teams to enhance equipment safety, quality, and reliability. Key duties include enforcing safety policies, collaborating on manufacturing processes, overseeing capital projects, and driving continuous improvement. The role emphasizes fostering a high-performance culture and providing technical guidance to ensure efficient operations and team development.
Position: Plant Technical Manager:

Company Statement
Graham Packaging is a people, planet and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life. For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here. At Graham, we are united by a clear vision.

We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce.

We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth.

Overview
The Plant Technical manager leads the plant’s maintenance, technical and continuous staff to derive maximum value from our equipment by improving machine safety, product quality and reliability. The Technical Manager has responsibility for fostering a high-performance, safety-minded culture and developing their teams of diverse backgrounds and skillsets. The Technical Manager uses their extensive experience and a solid practice of sound engineering fundamentals to provide technical guidance and decision making to their teams when required.

The primary duties of a Plant Technical Manager include:
• Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Collaborate with operations to ensure manufacturing methods, processes and performance are in compliance and managed through a continuous improvement process.
• Maintains overall responsibility for capital execution, process improvement and accountability for Maintenance.(Injection and SIPA One-Step Focus).
• Provides critical technical leadership for major capital projects and ensures production teams have solutions needed to drive safety, quality and performance plan.
• In collaboration with the quality manager, develops, leads, and implements a plant quality assurance plan to reduce cost of poor quality (COPQ) by conducting gap analysis, identifying the strategy and tactics to bridge the gap using tools such as statistical process control (SPC), Pareto diagrams, etc.
• Oversees efficient and effective design and execution efforts for plant capital and expense projects, meeting schedule and cost targets.
• Drives continuous improvement efforts within current process technologies and in development and implementation of new technologies.
• Maintains overall accountability for management of external technical relationships with contractors, and equipment vendors.
• Provides site leadership to achieve maximization/optimization of capital assets and site utilization as well as lead safety initiatives in technical areas.
• Develop and support strategies that integrate vertical start up (VSU), CI and Zero Loss Culture methodologies into the Master Plan.
• Provide site leadership for technical solutions to operational problems including systems optimization, debottlenecking, and troubleshooting.
• Accountable for the strategy, design and implementation of control systems and manufacturing information systems.
• Coach and develop Maintenance and Facilities team to integrate Maintenance into Zero Loss Culture.
• Provide strategy and support for maintenance programs, development of tools and resources, personnel selection, training and development.
• Integrate Maintenance into the strategy for the broader technical community at the plant.
• Lead and support plant continuous improvement…