Process Engineer

Responsibilities

• Maintain strong floor presence to support operations, identify barriers, and drive process improvement opportunities.
• Spend time on production lines developing deep understanding of all equipment and process flow.
• Execute plant priorities established by CI and Engineering Manager.
• Execute capital projects that support improved safety, new product launches, existing product expansions, improved efficiencies/throughput, and increased reliability.
• Identify and resolve line process and packaging equipment barriers to meet nameplate capacities and resolve to provide stable operations (equipment, instrumentation, operator interaction/control, etc).
• Conduct root-cause failure analysis for failed machine components with emphasis on repetitive failures, working closely with Maintenance and Reliability department.
• Deliver technical training to operating teams on equipment and processes.
• Support Product Line Supervisors to investigate, resolve, and document all process related issues using data archive system and operation tracking tools.
• Develop and implement engineering standards across the plant that improve machine reliability.
• Identify areas of waste related to utilities, product, and packaging materials and implement projects to reduce these costs.
• Deliver technical training to operators, leads, and supervisors on equipment, process controls, centerlines, and standard work.
• Create one point lessons, SOPs, work instructions, and skill validation tools.
• Maintain training matrices related to technical and process skills.
• Support onboarding qualification of new team members on critical equipment.
• Coach frontline team during floor observations to reinforce best practices.
• Utilize Redzone and other plant systems to track downtime, losses, actions and trend.
• Support Kaizen events, loss elimination projects, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help sustain 5s, standard work, and accountability.
• Track action items and ensure follow through on assigned projects.
• Partners with Maintenance, Quality, Safety and Operations to resolve issues and improve performance.
• Support process reliability, product quality, safe work practices, and training effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Required. Chemical, Mechanical, Packaging Engineering preferred.
• 5-7 years’ project, process or packaging engineering (food manufacturing experience preferred).
• Continuous improvement experience preferred.