Project Engineer, Quality Engineering

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Full-time

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Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose.

At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis U.S Yogurt, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Project Engineer based in Casa Grande.

As a Project Engineer, the role will carry out responsibilities such as but not limited to providing engineering support, implementation/commissioning services and facilities support for manufacturing processes and equipment. The role includes equipment specification, process design, equipment/skid layouts and process development/improvements in support of projects. Additionally, the Project Engineer will collaborate with Corporate Engineering, Finance, Leadership, Maintenance, Planning, Processing, Production, Quality, & Safety to align duties with the company's goals and values.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

* Define the business requirements: capacity needs over time, capacity available, R&D requirements in terms of raw materials, processes and possibilities for the future expansion. Ensure that the business needs are well validated by a cross-section of the business.

* Translate the business needs into process/packaging equipment requirements:
Ensure that the design captures the best practices available in the industry. Constantly seek improvement through benchmarking, expert's advice and transfer of best practices. Use the company network to gain access to the experts. Guarantee that the design is in compliance with the site master plan and with the company's product strategic plan.

* Organize and carry out all necessary trials and tests to ensure project success with production, suppliers and R&D.

* Prepare the supplier selection bid package, request for quotation, work with corporate purchasing to manage the supplier selection process.

* Follow the internal capital approval request procedures regarding approval, purchase orders, and review variances actual vs. budget throughout the project, forecast and report cash flow and variance. Manage any changes using documented change orders.

* Ensure good quality planning, risk analysis, budget, resource identification, and layout studies are complete and accurate.

* Use all best methodologies of project management:
Frequent Project meetings with minutes and action lists;
Communication within the company about project content and progress. Involve plant resources from the early phases as future customers in quality, safety, production and maintenance. Show a customer service oriented mindset in executing projects.

* Ensure that the following milestones are respected throughout the project: provisional acceptance, I/O check-out, equipment site acceptance test, electrical test, water test,…