Senior Plant Engineer

Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with plant management team and VP of Engineering to execute technical strategies that deliver on Safety, Compliance, Quality, Profitable Growth, and Cost.
• Develops and leads overall plant technical strategies and tactics focused on Safety, Compliance, Quality, Profitable Growth, and Cost.
• Promotes and incorporates “safety” as a culture and a strategy in all aspects of the technical and operations areas and demands focused results from the entire technical organization.
• Develops and leads plant specific engineering and maintenance projects to achieve key performance goals.
• Responsible for site capital investment strategy; Develop budgets for future capital projects and compile into multi-year capital budgets.
• Ensures facilities’ structures and infrastructures are maintained to meet or exceed the operational needs including but not limited to electrical, mechanical, boiler and refrigeration systems.
• Collaborates with Engineering leadership to create, understand and strictly adhere to plant technical expense budgets.
• Provide technical leadership and work with corporate insurance, risk management and local, state and federal agencies to ensure the facility meets and exceeds codes and/or policies.

Minimum Education and Experience

• 5 years’ experience in food or manufacturing.
• Bachelor’s in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Requires travel to vendors, training seminars, other plants and to the corporate office for periodic technical strategy meetings and capital planning sessions.
• Must be able to effectively communicate and work collaboratively within the plant and as required across all facilities.
• Needs to have a general knowledge of Auto Cad to include working with drawings, dimensioning and updating when equipment is installed or moved.
• Must be proficient in the use of general office tools such as Outlook and Microsoft Office.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Automation experience and working knowledge of the plant Computerized Maintenance Management System (Maximo).
• Experience in meat or poultry and experience leading projects in an operation.