Manufacturing Process & Packaging Systems Engineer

Safety Lead

Safety Lead
Food and Human Safety through Safety 2.0 leadership principles and standards.
Foster a culture that reduces risk to our people and communities by increasing capability to identify and control critical risk.
Specifically, responsible as the Control of Hazardous Energy (CoHE) Platform Owner for ensuring safe system designs, managing procedure changes, partnering with site owner for reviews, and coaching best practices, while reinforcing accountability for execution and adherence at the operational level.
Cultivate Food Safety Culture is committed to manufacturing safe food that is compliant with policy and regulatory requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Troubleshoot, problem solve and facilitate on-the-floor activities to build team member confidence, and capability of theory of operation and Operational Foundational Systems (CIL, CL, DH).
• Communicate and engage effectively with teams on the manufacturing floor.
• Process Leadership And Ownership
  Driving System Utilization (DSU)
  Responsible for building necessary skills around the development of Loss Tree and glidepaths for the line / system.
  Execute loss elimination tasks to improve system and equipment reliability through use of continuous improvement processes and problem solving.
  Execute HMM initiatives.
• Daily Direction Setting (DDS) and Operations Foundational Systems
  Accountable for the operations foundational systems across the platform to secure basic conditions and drive out losses (Clean-Inspect-Lubricate CIL, Centerlines CL, and Theory of Operation TOO).
• Vertical Start-Up (VSU)
  Provide Start-up support to the platform team to drive execution and improvements.
• Know Your Operation, Data And Technology
  Gain exposure through a physical presence on the manufacturing floor to the 4M's (machine, materials, methods, human) to grow skills and understanding of interdependency of inputs.
  Gain exposure to data and information systems to identify and drive decision making (performance metrics, financial information, data historian, maintenance management system).
  Learn material balances and unit operation capability on your system(s) to ensure optimal production rates, parameters, and formulas.
• Develop through connections and learning from operators, technicians, maintenance, and peers through rigorous application and understanding of foundational systems.
• Back-Up Support
  This position will provide backup support as needed, ensuring business continuity and operational efficiency.
  technical partners on platform team (SE, QE, Maintenance)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, or related degree with applicable experience, or extensive relevant work experience 1 year + of related manufacturing product or process engineering experience
• Theory/functionality of manufacturing systems and unit operations
• Mechanical aptitude with strong general engineering principles knowledge
• Demonstrated leadership and working in a highly collaborative environment
• Success in driving results through process and teamwork with proven success in reducing losses and improving performance in a manufacturing setting
• Demonstrated technical capability and knowledge of unit operations and manufacturing machinery
• Skilled at communicating between work groups, cross-functional resources, and other members of the plant and corporate teams
• Working knowledge of manufacturing data analysis systems (examples: SAP, Maximo, Manufacturing Analytics, MQIS) and proven success with decision-making for results

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Food Engineering or other engineering degrees preferred
• 2+ years of direct food manufacturing experience
• Data and manufacturing performance metrics analysis

Additional Considerations

• International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered.
• Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Equal Opportunity Employer

• General Mills is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or familial status, status regarding public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission.