Project Engineer

Description:

• processes, regional leads, and company objectives.
• Make objective decisions and facilitate consensus based on strategic priority, technical viability, and resource availability.
• Drive active stakeholder engagement to define process objectives, criteria for prioritizing initiatives, and project success criteria.
• Assess and monitor the health and value of the portfolio, identifying areas for improvement and optimization.
• Coordinate efficient, disciplined, and structured communication across multiple initiatives and projects with stakeholders.
• Develop and apply key performance indicators (KPIs) and analytical approaches to meet and enhance objectives.
• Identify cross-project dependencies and foster collaboration with other process departments within Global Technology.
• Develop, implement, and manage global process-specific estimating tools for capital expenditure (CapEx) and resource loading. Serve as a liaison between regional process leads and the strategy, ensuring consistent use and gathering feedback for tool development.
• Actively engage in the global engineering council to drive cross-process and regional collaboration and ensure successful execution of the technology portfolio.
• Identify staffing and contracting gaps and work with regional process managers to develop immediate and long-term strategies.
• Establish criteria and processes for managing the process-specific capital Asset Acquisition and Projects (AAP) portfolio, as well as non-AAP project activities, including plant audits, pilots, technology investigations, supplier audits, engineering fundamentals, and procurement TSC activities.
• Collaborate with the FP strategy team to introduce new technologies to the glass industry or O-I manufacturing operations, following a disciplined change management process.
• Champion change management for the FP team, with a specific focus on larger automation projects (>3M$).
• Facilitate regular interaction between the team, suppliers to ensure effective tracking and management of projects.
• Lead projects within the Finished Product portfolio assigned based on the needs of the FP team, often involving cross-functional collaboration with other departments (e.g., tag application, remote connections).