Manager, Injection Systems – Equipment & Process Performance

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🕒 April 30

🌾 Nebraska, North Carolina, +3 more states – Remote

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Amcor

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10,000+ employees

Founded Amcor

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Logistics

Amcor is a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care, and other products. With operations in approximately 40 countries and employing around 41,000 people, Amcor generates annual sales of about US$13. 6 billion. The company is committed to sustainability, focusing on a circular economy and producing innovative, recycle-ready packaging solutions. Amcor collaborates with partners like Berry and Power Roll to expand its capabilities and innovative portfolio in consumer and healthcare packaging solutions, as well as exploring solar photovoltaic applications.

📋 Description

• Define and lead the technical strategy for injection molding equipment and system architecture across the network. • Establish machine platform standards, including controls, hydraulics/electric systems, auxiliaries, and integration requirements. • Provide technical direction on future-state injection platform design, including scalability, flexibility, and lifecycle cost optimization. • Serve as the primary authority on machine capability requirements influencing product and tooling decisions. • Lead the development of mold–machine interface standards, ensuring alignment between tooling design and machine capability. • Partner with Product Development and Tooling Engineering to define design guardrails that improve manufacturability and reduce downstream variability. • Evaluate and influence tooling design decisions based on machine performance, clamp characteristics, and process capability. • Drive improvements in system-level performance, addressing interactions between machine, mold, material, and auxiliaries. • Establish frameworks for diagnosing and resolving chronic, multi-variable performance issues across plants. • Own the injection equipment lifecycle strategy, including obsolescence planning, modernization, and capital prioritization. • Develop and maintain a fleet-level view of equipment performance, risk, and capability gaps. • Lead benchmarking of injection machinery OEMs and auxiliary equipment suppliers, defining preferred technologies and platforms. • Develop and implement enterprise standards for injection machinery, system configuration, and performance metrics. • Partner with Product Development, Tooling Engineering, and Operations to align product design, tooling, and manufacturing capability.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Plastics Engineering, or related technical field. • 10-15+ years of experience in injection molding machinery operation, process optimization, or equipment engineering within the plastics or packaging industry. • In-depth knowledge of injection machine systems (Husky experience preferred), controls, hydraulics, and auxiliary equipment. • Demonstrated experience in equipment strategy, platform standardization, or multi-site technical leadership. • Strong understanding of mold–machine interaction and its impact on product quality and process capability. • Proven ability to influence technical decisions across functions and sites without direct authority. • Strong collaboration skills; ability to work effectively across functions and with OEM partners. • Willingness to travel up to 50% to support plant assessments and supplier evaluations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans • Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees • Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location • Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account • Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits • Paid Parental Leave • Retirement Savings Plan with company match • Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval) • Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)