Vertical Start-up Engineering Leader

$69,200 - $128,600/Yr

Henkel - Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time - Mid Level

Salt Lake City, UT

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

The Vertical Start-up Engineering Leader at Henkel is responsible for leading the vertical start-up activities for key plant projects, ensuring best-in-class performance and culture within the manufacturing facility. This role involves collaboration across engineering, operations, and continuous improvement teams to design, build, and install new capital projects while managing the start-up process and lifecycle costing. The position requires strong leadership and project management skills to drive improvements and achieve project timelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead vertical start-up for new capital projects, process improvements, RCA, and small capital projects.
• Liaison between engineering, operations, and CI to design, build, and install new capital projects with vertical start-up and life cycle costing in mind.
• Lead site preparation and execution of VSU Operational Readiness Checklist and Deliverables.
• Define the project's success criteria and start-up curve(s) and obtain approval from management.
• Ensure the Current Operation Assessment is developed and implemented, identifying potential gaps and risks on the start-up system and managing mitigation plans.
• Establish a comprehensive integrated detailed start-up plan with alignment from plant management and all stakeholders.
• Lead and coordinate team activities by assigning relevant VSU tasks to individual team members and ensuring efficient task execution.
• Secure appropriate management alignment and support to the start-up plan and VSU team through the Communication Plan.
• Develop and implement the training strategy, material plan, and DMS roll-out to deliver sustainable results.
• Own/lead CQV (Commissioning, Qualification, and Verification) execution phases.
• Maintain start-up log with clear loss, cause, action tracking, and documentation.
• Perform Post-Mortem project meeting after verification phase.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Science, or a similar 4-year degree.
• 6 years of experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment (global preferred).
• Strong leadership, organizational, and listening skills.
• Demonstrated tenacity in driving through obstacles to achieve results and maintain project timelines.
• Ability to unify and collaborate with different functions cohesively.
• 1-3 years' experience in Continuous Improvement (CI), preferably with knowledge in FMEA, TPM, VSU, EEM, CI, 5S, 5-Why, SMED, PM, etc.
• Experience with CapEx scoping, planning, and execution.
• Project management skills are a plus.
• Experience with Maintenance programs (such as TBM and predictive).

Nice-to-haves

• Project management skills
• Experience in Continuous Improvement methodologies

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Loan repayment program
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance