Sr Engineer

Title:

Sr Engineer

Location:

Kennewick, WA

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

This position is responsible for developing, managing, and executing domestic and international projects for Lamb Weston. Projects may include investigating or developing processes, developing project concepts and budgets, troubleshooting or investigating technical issues or implementing capital projects. Senior Engineer’s also assist in the development of procedures, best practices, and specifications. Senior Engineer’s may at times direct small scale projects or be part of a large scale project team(s).

Project work includes design, capital requests, project reviews, and presentations. Developing contractor bid packages, overseeing project installation, cost tracking, training, startup assistance, and post project support, much of which is on-site at one of our many US and/or International Manufacturing facilities. This position requires domestic and international travel. Working closely with the various levels of Procurement, Operations Management, EHSS, Food Protection, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, Plant Staff, and Production Personnel is critical.

This position coordinates activities with LW Operations and is based out of our Kennewick, Washington, engineering office.

• Reflects our LW values, supports our LW vision and helps complete our LW mission of being the No. 1 Global Potato Company
  • Drive for a TIR of ‘0’ ZERO.
  • Drive for ‘0’ ZERO project design or executions impacts on product quality
• Lead and participate in the successful development and execution of projects with a strong emphasis on Safety, Quality, Cost, and Customer Service
• Front-End Loading Phase (Project Development) activities include, but are not limited to:
  • Preparation of a project charter and objectives where scope and deliverables may be ambiguous and need bringing into focus.
  • Lead process design project activities including preparation of design. concepts, development of block flow diagrams, review of process flow diagrams, and review of piping & instrumentation (P&).
  • Perform mass flow balance, material flow analysis, heat transfer calculations, fluid flow calculations and energy balance calculations.
  • Develop scope, schedule, budget estimates and cost justifications as project progress through stage gate process.
  • On-site walk-throughs and evaluations, sometimes requiring access to difficult to reach locations, for observation of current conditions for scoping and costing activities.
  • Prepare scope documents for Request for Proposal (RFP) & bidding process.
  • Write, present, and submit Capital Investment Request (CIR) and supporting documentation.
• Project Execution Phase activities include, but are not limited to:
  • Participation in evaluation of vendor proposals, making equipment selections, creating purchase requisition, and performing good receipts.
  • Work with design team developing detail engineering drawings. Perform reviews and approve drawings & technical documentation ensuring compliance with design criteria and deliverables.
  • Ability to conduct design / process risk assessments.
  • Drive adherence to standards, develops/contributes to company technical specifications and standards.
  • Review submittals, answer to RFIs and conduct field visits to verify onsite work is proceeding according to design. Provide field…