Plant Engineer
- Location
- Lenoir, NC
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Mid
- H-1B history
- 12 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
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Plant Engineer
Lenoir
Requisition ID
56876
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Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com .
Position
Summary The Plant Engineer is responsible for leading the engineering, maintenance, reliability, utilities, and continuous improvement activities required to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective plant operations. This position provides technical leadership for plant equipment, manufacturing processes, infrastructure, automation, reliability improvement, preventive and predictive maintenance, capital projects, and production performance. The Plant Engineer partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Supply Chain, and Finance to eliminate chronic losses and improve safety, uptime, run rate, yield, quality, and overall equipment effectiveness. The successful candidate will establish a proactive engineering and reliability culture that moves the facility from reactive problem solving toward planned maintenance, predictive maintenance, root-cause elimination, standardized work, and sustained process capability.
Key Responsibilities
1. Engineering & Plant Reliability2. Preventive & Predictive Maintenance 3. Production Performance & Run-Rate Improvement 4. Root Cause & Continuous Improvement 5. Capital Projects & Engineering Projects 6. Automation & Controls 7. Critical Spares & Asset Management 8. Safety & Compliance 9. Standard Work & Technical Documentation Qualifications
Education • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field preferred. • Equivalent technical/engineering experience may be considered. Experience • 5+ years of manufacturing engineering, plant engineering, maintenance/reliability, or related experience. • Experience in an extrusion, continuous manufacturing or high-speed production environment strongly preferred. • Demonstrated experience improving equipment reliability and manufacturing performance. • Experience with CMMS systems such as Maximo preferred. • Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs. • Experience with capital projects and equipment installations. • Experience with root-cause analysis and continuous