Sr Engineer Scale & Bagging Systems

Title

Sr Engineer Scale & Bagging Systems

Kennewick, WA

Req-269968

Full time

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 provides technical expertise and support of the product scale/distribution and bagging systems used in Lamb Weston and will be responsible for documenting, tracking, and directing technical maintenance and reliability efforts of the company’s scale and bagging equipment. Equipment includes product scale/delivery systems (typically Ishida scales), product bagging systems (typically BOSCH, Triangle, Lamb Pak), and other related peripheral equipment. Additionally, a key responsibility is developing and maintaining technical, operational, and service documentation, as well as promoting best practices for manufacturing plants.

The incumbent of this role will spend more than 75% of their time improving asset utilization of LW scale and bagging packaging systems.

As a member of the Technical Support team, this person will engage with operations teams and vendors, as well as Lamb Weston personnel; the goal is to achieve the next level of excellence in the performance and utilization of these technologies. This position supports Lamb Weston’s Journey to Zero by providing clear, concise, and relevant packaging systems technical expertise to manufacturing plants, Global Engineering, and Engineering Standards and Design groups.

Working closely with the various levels of Operations Management, EHS, Food Protection, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, Plant Staff, Procurement, and Production Personnel is critical.

• Provide leadership in establishing the safety of all associates to World Class Safety and Zero Incidents as a primary objective.
• Support and provide Leadership in Quality and Food Safety to achieve goals of Zero Foreign Material.
• Provide subject matter expertise of LW packaging scale and bagging systems and related peripheral equipment to actively improve asset utilization by elimination of unplanned mechanical downtime.
• Support the team in providing project and technical design to the plant when required.
• Demonstrate professional maturity through decision making and effective communication with various departments and managers to ensure project team resources are efficiently utilized.
• Prepare and maintain meeting agendas and minutes.
• Assist and maintain technical documentation, best practices, drawings, project documents.
• Assist in keeping up‑to‑date drawings and as‑built documentation.
• Lead training and assembly of Lamb Weston Technology when needed.
• Participate in project meetings when needed.
• Provide up‑to‑date copies of drawings and specifications to contractors, project team, and plant personnel.
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control:
  Assist in verifying that all materials installed comply with Lamb Weston approved submittals and standards.
• Participate in project VAT/SAT process.
• Continually monitor scale and bagging equipment, ensuring that the project relationships are correct and preserve adherence to Lamb Weston Standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering plus 5+ years of related experience, or 8+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Packaging scale and bagging equipment design and operation experience preferred.
• A basic working knowledge of packaging materials and…