Innovation Leader

About the role

BW Packaging is driving performance at the intersection of people, technology, and customer care. As part of the privately held Barry-Wehmiller family, we unite a global team of packaging experts with a clear purpose: People Who Care, Building Solutions that Perform. We take on our customers' toughest challenges as our own - delivering both innovative and enduring solutions that set the standard for value and performance. Our strength comes from our people and the power of our brands - trusted names in packaging that are known worldwide for engineering excellence, application expertise, and lifetime commitment to customer success. Truly Human Leadership guides our belief that exceptional business results and profound respect for people together provide the foundation of enduring success. We are committed to forging lasting partnerships with our customers, earning their trust through integrity, expertise, and execution. With our full range of packaging solutions and long term partnership and service, we help customers achieve operational excellence today while building the future of packaging together. 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: The Site Innovation Leader is accountable for the technical output of the site innovation engineering team and is responsible for defining work plans as well as mentoring and coaching engineers. This leader is deeply technical and serves as an advisor to project teams, engineers, and product line managers. The role plays a critical part in collaborating with product line leaders to understand market needs and ensuring local teams develop marquee products for target markets. This leader will ensure teams are delivering against design standards and will execute best practices in agile innovation development. Finally, this individual will provide insightful leadership to their team members by encouraging them to discover, develop, and apply their talents, enabling them and the business to reach their full potential.