Process Engineer II

About the role

The French's Food Company, a subsidiary of McCormick & Company, Inc. and a global leader in flavor, is seeking a full-time Process Engineer for its plant in Springfield, MO. The role reports to the Continuous Improvement Department Manager. With over $500 million in annual sales, the company crafts trusted foods from simple, high‑quality ingredients, ranging from French's Classic Yellow Mustard to innovations like Frank's RedHot. Reporting to the Continuous Improvement Manager, the Process Engineer II will provide leadership, direction, and functional expertise to the Plant for loss analysis, analytics, and training systems, supporting the Plant Leadership Team in the JTE (Journey to Excellence) strategy to build employee capability, enhance data reliability, and drive engagement through high‑performance work systems.

Responsibilities

• Creating visibility to Loss Data
• Owning Loss Analysis program to support site’s OGSM (Objective, Goals, Strategies, and Measures) and budget targets
• Helping prioritize loss reduction projects in collaboration with the site leadership team
• Providing supporting data analysis and justifications for any technology improvements and capital expenditures and feasibility studies
• Leading site Focused Improvement pillar
• Leading site Data and Analytics
• Maintaining integrity of site data through training, health checks, and change control. Focus includes scorecards, downtime data base, manual tracking systems and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) master data.
• Providing analysis and insights to key performance metrics like Process Reliability, Productivity, Yield and Scrap.
• Collating and publishing site scorecard every month.
• Creating and executing site Analytics strategy.
• Establishing scorecard review processes based on the appropriate frequency and participants.
• Driving data-based decision-making behavior at all levels
• Implement Effective Training systems
• Coach site employees and Subject Matter Experts on the methodology and tools: Basic performance data and trends, Problem solving, Root cause analysis, Loss Reduction projects
• Participate on Training and Development Pillar
• Create and maintain site training systems

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years working in manufacturing operations
• Background in Total Productive Maintenance / Lean, Change Management and Organizational Effectiveness
• Experience analyzing complex datasets, generating insights and building robust statistical models. Should be comfortable working with structured and unstructured data.
• Ability to analyze complex information in order to make judgments and decisions.
• Data intensive - thrives in detail with purpose - does not get paralyzed by analysis.
• Ability to create people change plan for strategic initiatives.
• Ability to be an influencer of large or high-risk change initiatives.
• Create intra-plant collaboration (operations, functional areas, support areas)
• Ability to provide key insights to leadership in order to influence priority development
• Ability to develop action plans, obtain or assign resources, and align day-to-day processes to achieve strategic goals.
• Ability to analyze data to gather actionable insights.
• Ability to achieve project goals and objectives by applying the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about successful project completion.
• Understand key financial topics, including: Budgeting, Cost Center Ownership, CAAP (Capital Asset Acquisition Proposal), IRR (Internal Rate of Return), Yield, Waste, Scrap and Loss Analysis
• Ability to use appropriate root cause analysis decision tools for decision making
• Ability and willingness to work flexible hours and days as needed to meet business demands

Qualifications

• Familiarity with creating reports using our current (and future) Power BI tools, e.g. SAP Hana, Tableau
• Experience in CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods)
• Team and Operations Leadership experience
• Experience developing justifications and cost estimates for capital projects
• Experience developing and writing procedures with cross functional teams and supporting training activities
• Experience leading and coaching process improvement and/or continuous improvement teams