Mechanical Engineer

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet.  More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Job Description

Is the third working level in the engineering series.  Incumbents routinely lead complex engineering projects.  This role has no direct reports.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

• Safety
  • Aligns with and actively supports Amcor values by putting safety first in all situation.
  • Acts as a safety leader to others by ensuring that all project work is completed in accordance with our safety policies.
• Integrity
  • Determines customer’s needs by identifying problems and safety concerns. Develop and evaluate solutions thereby defining project scope.
  • Coordinates/develops prepares and/or assembles the engineering package/project documentation for each assigned project. This includes designs, calculations, layouts, schematics, manuals, bid specs, etc.
  • Establishes Project Team, facilitates and documents Project team meetings.
• Collaboration
  • Interfaces with people, departments, and/or companies to ensure that equipment is safe, made on schedule and to specification
  • Provides the purchasing services for project materials required. This includes reviewing potential vendors, contacts with vendors, coordinating with the Purchasing department, issuing purchase orders, some price negotiation, and expediting delivery.
  • Assists, as necessary, in the interview process of candidates for filling openings within the department.
  • Communicates all appropriate information in a timely manner and fashion to the necessary people within and outside the organization
• Accountability
  • Manages project costs, project scheduling and supplying pertinent communication for multiple highly complex and wide-ranging engineering projects, which may vary in terms of scope and responsibilities.
  • Completes Project Closeout and Postmortem Analysis for appropriate projects.
• Results and Outperformance
  • Actively participates on continuous improvement / kaizen teams and leads teams as requested.
  • Leads efforts to secure and maintain knowledge of current industry practices for the department as they may apply to Amcor Products and equipment.
  • Leads mid to large scale project installations, checkout, start-up and training as necessary.
  • Identifies potential areas of improvement for department and develops proposals for action plans.
  • Provides the purchasing services for project materials required.  This includes reviewing potential vendors, contacts with vendors, coordinating with the Purchasing Department, issuing purchase orders, some price negotiation, and expediting delivery.

WHAT WE VALUE

• Talent
  • Contributions are of a high degree of complexity and may involve supervisor responsibilities. Exhibits strong sense of ownership; identifies potential areas of improvement with existing engineering designs and develops suggestions/proposals to improve.
• Commercial Excellence
  • Ensures team members are keeping others informed about the plans, developments, changes and project challenges in a timely manner. Identifies and implements ways to improve the frequency and quality of communication.
• Operational Leadership
  • Takes responsibility to set clear objectives and expectations, giving continual feedback and addressing performance issues promptly. Challenges and encourages others to go beyond the limits of what they think they can achieve.
• Innovation
  • Understands importance of accountability for his/her decisions, as well as those of direct reports. Ability to effectively lead teams, empower them and provide support where needed.
• Cash and Capital Discipline
  • Utilizes prior project management experiences to unite resources from different areas. Challenges and understands where differences lie in final project savings number.
• Role Emphasis
  • Facilities
    • Evaluates and improves upon current successful company best practices to engineering design, layouts and installations.
    • Develop testing processes and performs testing and validation of facility and manufacturing infrastructure designs and systems.
    • Performs engineering calculations to support facility and manufacturing infrastructure engineering work
    • Creates and reviews technical drawings, plans, and specifications utilizing computer software
  • Controls
    • Conceptualizes, creates, and plans programming, configuration, integration, networking and communication services using equipment and software from a variety of HMI, SCADA, and PLC manufacturers, as well as various communication protocols.
    • Develops testing processes and performs testing and validation of machine instrumentation with the controls package.
    • Fosters integration and development of team IT resources related to engineering functions such as PLC/machine control, HMI function and edge device use.   
    • Creates and reviews technologies to be used for future applications and extensions of current architecture.
  • Mechanical
    • Conceptualizes, creates, and plans designs for mechanical systems.
    • Develop testing processes and performs testing and validation of mechanical designs and systems.
    • Performs engineering calculations to support design and mechanical engineering work
    • Creates and reviews technical drawings, plans, and specifications utilizing computer software
  • Electrical
    • Conceptualizes, creates, and plans designs for electrical systems.
    • Develop testing processes and performs testing and validations of electrical designs and systems.
    • Performs engineering calculations to support design and electrical engineering work
    • Creates and reviews technical drawings, plans, and specifications utilizing computer software
  • Industrial
    • Conducts studies for large-scale projects pertaining to cost control, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems. Based on these studies, develops and implements optimized product flow.
    • Responsible for validating IE requirements for large-scale projects with multiple automation integrators and verifies that automation solution/proposals aligned with business strategies using Just-In-Time/Lean manufacturing tools and techniques.
    • Collects/Analyzes data for large-scale projects and works with the IPT to validate current state processes/flows to establish an accurate model of the operation of a system. Establishes Discrete Event Simulation (DES) baseline for large-scale projects and collaborates with the IPT to propose/validate future automation solutions that improve cycle time, WIP, bottlenecks, throughput, capacity, resource utilization, and production rate changes of complex production systems.
  • Automation
    • Investigates and conceptualizes new automation solutions to solve manufacturing issues. Automation solutions can include (industrial robotics, AGVs/AMRs, cobots, right-sized automation, inspection systems, etc.)
    • Performs testing and validation of automation systems.
    • Performs testing and validation of mid-scale automation systems.
    • Reviews technical drawings, plans, proposals, RFQs, RFQ responses, and specifications for mid-scale automation work.
    • Estimates, develops, and deploys mid-scale automation technology solutions.
  • IoT
    • Creates, and plans designs for data collection and analysis, SPC, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
    • Performs testing and validation of IoT systems.
    • Develops and deploys IoT technology solution to the business.

WHAT WE WANT FROM YOU

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Electrical, Mechanical, CS&E, Controls/Automation Engineering or related technical field
• 6 + years’ experience
• Amcor or similar flexible packaging engineering project experience
• Above average performance
• 30% travel requirement

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees

• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location

• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program

• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits

• Paid Parental Leave

• Retirement Savings Plan with company match

• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)