Engineering Manager

Buckman – Cadet, MO

Location: Cadet, MO

Language: English

Travel: up to 5%

Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment. 

Position Summary

The Engineering Manager at Cadet and/or Memphis leads process integrity and upholds design intent across all manufacturing operations by serving as the site’s technical design authority. Ensure that process hazard analyses, management-of-change evaluations, and process safety information remain current, accurate, and rigorously applied—so that every change to process conditions, raw materials, or formulations is technically sound before it reaches the plant floor. Sustain long-term process knowledge, deliver independent technical challenge to Operations, and drive continuous improvement of control systems, technical standards, and operating procedures to achieve safe, compliant, and reliable production outcomes.

Key Outcomes/Responsibilities

Outcome: Ensure Safe, Compliant, and Reliable Operations

Actions:

• Establish and enforce engineering standards that reflect design intent, regulatory requirements, and Buckman EHS policies
• Actively lead and participate in process safety activities (PSI, PHA, LOPA, incident reviews), not delegate them entirely
• Ensure engineering decisions explicitly consider process safety risk, not just cost or schedule
• Partner with Operations and EHS to address audit findings, incidents, and near‑misses with permanent corrective actions

Outcome: Maintain Asset Integrity & Mechanical Reliability

Actions:

• Own the mechanical integrity strategy for critical assets (pressure systems, reactors, tanks, relief devices, utilities)
• Ensure inspection, testing, and preventive maintenance programs are risk‑based and current
• Lead root‑cause analysis of equipment failures and ensure corrective actions are engineered, not procedural only
• Review reliability trends and intervene early when degradation or repeat failures emerge

Outcome: Execute Engineering Change & Capital Projects with Discipline

Actions:

• Enforce rigorous Management of Change (MOC) for all process, equipment, and control changes
• Ensure all changes are technically reviewed, hazards evaluated, and documentation updated before implementation
• Lead or oversee capital project execution to ensure safe startup and operational readiness
• Require PSSR completion and verification before returning modified systems to service

Outcome: Lead Process Safety as a Line‑Leadership Responsibility

Actions:

• Clearly communicate that process safety is a core engineering responsibility—not a compliance exercise
• Regularly engage operators and supervisors in hazard awareness and learning from incidents
• Ensure PHAs remain living documents that drive real engineering and operating changes
• Model disciplined decision‑making under production pressure, reinforcing risk‑based choices

Outcome: Sustain Technical Capability & Process Knowledge

Actions:

• Serve as the site technical authority, preserving long‑term process and systems knowledge
• Provide independent technical challenge to Operations and Maintenance decisions
• Drive continuous improvement of control systems, technical standards, SOPs, and operating procedures
• Build technical depth within the engineering team through coaching, standards, and deliberate development

Outcome: Enable Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

Actions:

• Use data, reliability trends, and process performance indicators to identify improvement opportunities
• Translate operational issues into engineered solutions rather than compensating behavior
• Partner cross‑functionally to improve safety, quality, throughput, and cost performance
• Ensure engineering effort is focused on high‑risk, high‑value problems impacting site performance

Basic Qualifications

• Education Requirements: Bachelor's Degree - Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineer
• Job Experience: 10+ years
• Strong knowledge of lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and ERP systems
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Strategic thinking and execution
• Operational excellence
• Team leadership and development
• Data-drive decision-making
• Change management
• Process safety management (PSM) concepts
• Mechanical integrity principles for critical assets (pressure systems, vessels, piping, utilities)
• Experience supporting startup, commissioning, and operational readiness activities
• Experience ensuring technical risk is identified, understood, and mitigated before implementation
• Experience leading or overseeing engineering scope development, technical reviews of capital projects, and PSSR and startup readiness

Competencies

• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear 
• Attracts Top Talent - Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs 
• Business Insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals 
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives 
• Cultivates Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful 

We appreciate the interest of recruitment partners, but we are not engaging external agencies for this role.

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