[Hiring] Senior Facilities Engineer @Dart Container

Role Description

This role is about shaping the future of facilities engineering. We are seeking a Senior Facilities Engineer with broad industrial infrastructure experience to lead the reliability, expansion, and long-term strategy of critical process utility and facility systems supporting manufacturing operations.

You will operate at the intersection of engineering, capital planning, operational excellence, and business strategy, serving as a trusted technical leader across utility infrastructure and facility systems.

What You'll Do...

• Lead Facility and Process Utility System Performance
  • Provide technical ownership and long-term stewardship of critical process utility infrastructure, including systems such as compressed air, process water, vacuum, wastewater, and supporting facility utilities.
  • Drive reliability, capacity, and lifecycle performance.
  • Eliminate recurring failures through root cause analysis.
  • Develop long-range asset and obsolescence strategies.
  • Ensure systems are engineered to support business growth.
  • Develop and influence the 5–10-year roadmap for process utility systems and site infrastructure.
  • Prioritize investments based on risk, reliability, and business value.
  • Identify technologies and improvements that enhance operational efficiency.
  • Balance technical and financial considerations in major decisions.
  • Manage execution across design, procurement, construction, and startup.
  • Deliver projects that increase capacity, reduce risk, and improve operational performance.
• Build a Reliability-Driven Culture
  • Partner with operations and maintenance teams to move from reactive maintenance to engineered reliability.
  • Implement predictive and preventive maintenance strategies.
  • Use data and performance metrics to drive decisions.
  • Improve uptime, asset life, and total cost of ownership.
• Shape Future Infrastructure Strategy
  • Shift the culture from reactive response to engineered reliability.

Measures of Success

• Improved process utility reliability and system availability.
• Reduction in recurring failures and unplanned downtime.
• Successful delivery of capital projects meeting cost, schedule, and ROI objectives.
• Increased asset performance, capacity, and lifecycle value.
• Stronger engineering and reliability practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• Requires one of the following:
  • Bachelor's degree and six (6) years of professional design or construction management experience.
  • Associate’s degree and twelve (12) years of professional design or construction management experience.
• Experience leading capital projects and infrastructure upgrades.
• Strong knowledge of process utility systems and reliability engineering.
• Proven ability to translate technical challenges into measurable business outcomes.
• Confident ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive leadership through concise, business-focused recommendations and presentations.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferred.
• Experience with managing building/property protection and loss prevention through third party insurers, preferred.

Requirements

• Preferred Location: Mason, MI.
• Remote role (U.S. based) - This position is available as a remote role in one of our approved locations.
• Travel: Up to 50% (domestic & international).
• Regular on-site engagement at our production locations.

Benefits

• Dart Container full-time employees enjoy great benefits, including:
  • Medical, dental, vision, life insurance.
  • 401(k) with company matching contributions.
  • Paid vacation and paid holidays.
  • Short-term disability.
  • Tuition assistance.
  • Product discounts and more.