Sr. Engineer, Equipment Engineering

About the role

The Senior Engineer, Equipment will work onsite at our state of art Innovation and Manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, NC. This position plays a key role in the planning, resource definition and allocation, scheduling, contracting, budgeting, risk assessment, tracking, and execution of projects involving packaging equipment installation and process implementation.

Responsibilities

• Work with manufacturing, quality, safety, planning and other key site collaborators to find opportunities for product quality control using innovative sensing technologies such as X-ray, metal detection, check weighing and lasers
• Develop innovative concepts and implement new equipment and plant automation using robotics, AGV's, and intelligent warehousing
• Identify standard methodology technologies to address safety, quality and production opportunities to promote the Herbalife 'Build it Better' culture
• Design, coordinate, construct, install and commission process and packaging equipment lines
• Understand and implement standard methodologies for packaging and process automation accounting for key elements of packaging design and product properties
• Work with in-house manufacturing and contract manufacturers to ensure that the process and packaging systems and procedures provide consistent operating conditions and the safety and integrity of finished products
• Troubleshoot problems with components, materials and machinery processes in coordination with Quality, Production, Operations, Maintenance, vendors and OEMs
• Draft protocols and execute packaging line and process capability trials in support of commercial deployment of systems
• Support validation/qualification line work, including FAT, SAT, IQ, OQ & PQ, at HLF facility or outside partners to ensure machinery and processes meet all requirements
• Develop SOP's to ensure processes consistently meet all required operating standards for processing and packaging
• Capture and institute engineering standards based on learnings from previous projects for use in future Herbalife Manufacturing projects
• Develop detailed performance schedules for all major tasks and areas of coordination, and monitor responsiveness and execution by Herbalife and outside vendors
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Skills: Working knowledge of food/nutraceutical materials/processes/equipment; Organizational/Motivational leadership skills coupled with strong project management and analytical ability; Must be able to manage multiple and competing tasks; Strong technical skills with the ability to understand food or pharmaceutical plant equipment/operation; Technical skills with the ability to understand formulations/process/procedures; Ability to frame and solve practical problems, carry them to conclusion and communicate results professionally and effectively in written and oral form; Demonstrated ability to develop and execute complex scope, budget, timeline, resource allocation, purchasing, contracting, communication and tracking plans; Working knowledge of GMPs and other regulatory requirements; Proficient with computer software including MS Outlook, Word, Excel
• Experience: 5 years Equipment and/or Processing Engineering or related Engineering manufacturing environment; 3 years' experience in a cGMP or other regulatory environments: Food/Dietary/Nutritional/Pharmaceutical or kindred product industries; Knowledge of materials/process/equipment/plant automation systems/product quality measuring systems (Xray, Metal Detection, Checkweighing, Lasers); Knowledge of packaging materials and their interaction with equipment efficiencies; Mechanical proficiency, understanding equipment and operation functionality to establish/challenge/optimize run rates/productivity
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Food, Bioprocess, Agricultural, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical Engineering, or another Engineering discipline