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Project Engineer Manager-March 2024
Battle Creek
Mar 28, 2026
About Project Engineer Manager

  The Opportunity:

  Responsibilities include managing both internal engineering staff and outside engineering resources on an as needed basis.

  Manages the mill capital portfolio on a regular basis and partners with corporate engineering, legal and purchasing on larger projects.

  Timely execution of mill projects, budget performance, and accurate accounting of results will be required.

  Core Responsibilities:

  Manage mill capital plan

  Plan and execute capital projects from design through completion and commissioning

  Front End Planning efforts include developing ideas into projects, developing budgets, and seeking approval

  Active participation in all safety programs (STOP observations, Team of Two Audits, etc.)

  Ensure that all projects are installed per applicable regulatory codes (OSHA, IEEE, NFPA, etc.)

  Comply with corporate project standards and reporting timelines

  Provide leadership to staff Project Engineer and outside engineering resources

  Be an operational resource by providing technical expertise

  Coordinate outside resources to assist with operational improvements

  Primary owner of risk management (FM Global, fire systems, and NDT of pressure vessels)

  Lead development of improved BOMs to ensure consistency in equipment across the site and internal engineering standards are met.

  Core competencies:

  Excellent communicator both verbally and written

  Models critical core behaviors: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Accountability, and Excellence

  Ability to Execute: Achieves results, sets, and accomplishes challenging goals, prioritizes, and manages tasks effectively, maintains an organized system to monitor progress, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability.

  Change Agent: Drives for continuous improvement while managing expectations and results; Quickly adapts to changing circumstances; Challenges the status quo and creatively identifies opportunities for improvement; Understands and utilizes tools to facilitate change

  Customer Focused: Understands and works to meet customer requirements; Listens to and responds to customer’s needs; Builds relationships with and gains trust of customer by always meeting commitments

  Decision Making/Judgment: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, and weighs options, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely and accurate decisions, can make difficult decisions, clearly communicates decisions to others

  Initiative: Tackles problems and takes independent action, seeks out new responsibilities, acts on opportunities, generates new ideas, practices self-development, demonstrates a bias for action without prompting

  Innovation: Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, pursues ongoing improvements, supports change, encourages originality, solves problems creatively

  Planning, Prioritizing, and Goal Setting: Develops realistic plans, sets goals, plans for, and manages resources, demonstrates strong time management skills, creates contingency plans

  Problem Solving and Analysis: Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues and information, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts, can analyze data/information and draw accurate conclusions

  Education, Skills, and Knowledge:

  BS Engineering, or related discipline

  5+ years of experience in Project Engineering

  Paper industry experience is a plus·

  Proficient in AutoCAD is a plus·

  Experience in managing capital projects and leading project teams·

  Analytical and decision-making tools·

  Accounting:

  Capital Expenditure procedures and guidelines

  IRR development and auditing of results

  WestRock (NYSE:WRK) partners with our customers to provide differentiated paper and packaging solutions that help them win in the marketplace. WestRock's team members support customers around the world from locations spanning North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Learn more at www.westrock.com.

  WestRock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to create and maintain a diverse workforce where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. WestRock does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.

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