Who We Are

On July 1, 2025, IPL Plastics merged with Schoeller Allibert to form IPL Schoeller (the ‘company’). The Company’s operations are split across North America (11 manufacturing plants) and Europe (16 manufacturing plants).

The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. IPL Schoeller is a leading manufacturer of sustainable rigid packaging solutions across a range of end market segments including returnable transit packaging, consumer and industrial packaging, environmental containers and agricultural packaging. The company employs c.4,100 employees across North America (1,600 employees) and Europe (2,500 employees.)

The Role

Job Overview and Key Duties

Purpose of position:

Directs and leads the site engineering team of 13, responsible for all proactive and reactive maintenance and site machine and facility on a large-scale 24/7 manufacturing operation.

Summary :

• To provide the technical and management leadership to the site’s engineering team of mechanical, electrical engineers, and apprentices

• Accountable for site asset availability ensuring asset plans are maintained for all site equipment. Use asset availability and scrap due to poor reliability measures to identify performance gaps and develop gap closure plans using tools such as planned preventative maintenance, asset care plans, predictive maintenance, RCA, etc.

• Responsible for all site fixed and variable productions costs due to maintenance including develop and control of annual budget and managing and reporting on actual spend to budget, in excess of £1 million.

• Support delivery of site capital plan inclusive of identifying opportunities for investment which will deliver measurable improvement, proposing annual CAPEX plan for approval, scoping out and submitting individual capital investment cases including scope, costs, return on investment, delivering capital projects from cradle to grave inclusive of post project review.

•  HSE elements inclusive of permit to work, control of contractors etc. Regulatory requirements including but not limited to PUWER, lock out tag out, control of legionella, LOLER, F-gas, gas safe, electrical safety etc.

• Develop and drive department performance KPI’s with tangible benefits. Coach and support team to deliver department plans.

Qualifications / Skills Required

• Degree in relevant subject either electrical or mechanical engineering.

• Extensive experience in maintenance and project management with at least 5 years’ experience in engineering managers role at large scale manufacturing plant.

• First class project & change management with experience of managing project portfolio of >£1 million per year.

• Results focused individual with a Pro-active and self-motivated approach Adapting to fit the changing needs of the business as required with examples of positive changes made.

• Excellent people manager with the leadership ability to inspire, engage, manage, organize, and develop a large engineering team ensuring succession plans are in place. 

• The ability to work calmly under pressure ensuring decisions are always based on the needs of the customer without compromising site safety.

• Experience in managing regulatory compliance, NEBOSH or equivalent trained.