Senior Project Engineer​/Project Engineer

Job Qualifications

• Education:
  
  Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, or related field.
• Experience:
  
  Bachelor’s degree with 5 or more years of experience in a manufacturing environment with an understanding of process control and development is required, or 5 to 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Working knowledge of food or feed industry, food safety, and GMP is preferred.
• Process troubleshooting, designing and implementing new processes.
• Experience in Food, Agriculture, Dairy, Bio Processing or other process intensive industries.
• Previous Project Management or leadership experience.
• Experience with controls (PLC’s, DCS integration) at the very least control narrative documentation.

• Identify opportunities for quality, cost, and delivery improvement.
• Develop solutions to mitigate issues and optimize Operations performance metrics.
• Utilize tools such as 8D problem solving, design of experiments, to understand critical input variables that affect process performance and identify viable changes, modifications, and improvements to reduce variation.
• Work with supervisors, managers, and employees to deploy improvement solutions, including procedural changes, line and equipment modifications, and SOP revisions, that are sustainable and consistent throughout all manufacturing facilities.
• Serve as a technical resource for applied statistics, process assessment techniques, cost determination, project planning, and control plan implementation and assist with engineering savings impact calculations.
• Lead plant and supplier trials in cooperation with Operations, Quality and R&D to access new technologies and processes.
• Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing, and inspection.
• Develop a deep technical knowledge of key APC processes such as drying, membranes, separation, and fractionation.
• Document and share this knowledge in a sustainable way.
• Understand APC processes globally and assist as needed in unifying best in class processes.
• Assist Engineering Manager in special projects as assigned.
• Willingness to travel and spend time in the processes at our manufacturing plants, on both day, weekends, and off-shifts as required.
• Coordinate with R&D personnel for use of the lab and pilot plant as needed.
• Write Capital expense requests, coordinate equipment ordering and supervise project work to ensure approved requests are completed within budget.

• Comprehensive knowledge of process development tools and capability to statistically analyze complex manufacturing processes.
• Ability to design new processes and optimize existing manufacturing processes.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data to make decisions.
• Above average skills in Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Approximately 25% domestic travel.

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