Global Director of Sustaining Engineering
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Green Bay, WI
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of engineering experience in product development, sustaining, or order fulfillment engineering within an industrial or capital equipment environment.
- 5+ years of experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, including both sustaining product support and order-specific execution.
- Proficiency in DFMEA, DFM, and GD&T methodologies and their application in a production equipment context.
- Proven success in leading engineering change processes, VaVe initiatives, cost reduction efforts, and obsolescence planning.
- Strong familiarity with CAD and PDM systems (e.g., SolidWorks, Windchill, or equivalent).
- Experience managing configurable products in complex build-to-order environments.
- Excellent leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and communication skills.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of delivering engineering outcomes aligned with business objectives.
- Experience working in high-mix, low-to-medium volume manufacturing environments preferred.
Full description
About Us:
BW Converting Solutions is a strategic alliance of resources and services that bring together several Barry-Wehmiller companies — Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), Winkler + Dünnebier (W+D), STAX Technologies, Hudson-Sharp, Baldwin Technologies and Northern Engraving and Machine. These industry leaders offer trusted brands and innovative technologies in the design, manufacture, and service of high-performance converting and packaging machinery for the tissue, nonwovens, hygiene, bag-converting, mailing, and printing industries.
Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Global Director of Sustaining Engineering & US Sold Work to lead a critical segment of our Engineering organization. This high-impact leadership role is responsible for both Sustaining Engineering and the engineering execution of sold customer orders in the United States. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and possess strong technical and operational expertise across product design, lifecycle management, manufacturing support, and custom order engineering.
This role plays a dual function: ensuring long-term product integrity and continuous improvement across our global product lines, while also managing the execution of engineering for sold customer orders—from review and customization through release to production
Key Responsibilities
Global Sustaining Engineering
- Lead the Sustaining Engineering team in maintaining and improving existing product lines with a focus on design robustness and manufacturing efficiency.
- Drive implementation of Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) to proactively identify and mitigate design risks.
- Apply Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles to improve ease of production, reduce variability, and enhance cost-effectiveness.
- Ensure use of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) best practices to support clear, consistent, and functionally appropriate part specifications.
- Lead engineering change control and lifecycle management to ensure product quality, reliability, and compliance.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives including VaVe, design simplification, and standardization across platforms.
- Develop and execute strategies for product modularization, commonization, and reuse to improve flexibility and lead time reduction.