Process Engineer

Company Overview

Whois Costa Farms? We’re one of the world’s largest horticultural growers—but without an ego to match our acreage. Our headquarters are in Miami, Florida, where we were founded in 1961. Costa Farms started on just 30 acres, and over the last 60 years, we’ve grown to more than 5,000 acres around the world. We have farms in North and South Carolina, Central and South Florida, and the Dominican Republic, plus an office in China.

Costa Farms now employs nearly 6,000 people: engineers, marketers, accountants/analysts, human resources professionals, and of course, growers and plant scientists!

Here at Costa Farms, we live by the values of H3: being Humble, staying Hungry, and always Hustling. The team rallies to the mission of being a lean, green, growing machine dedicated to enriching the world by bringing plants into everyone’s life.

True to that mission, we grow more than 1,500 plant varieties. Driven by the spirit of innovation, the team is always testing new plants and developing new solutions to make it easier for retailers and plant parents to enjoy plants. We’re also continuously testing different ways of growing our plants to increase quality and improve their ecological footprint as one aspect of our many sustainability efforts.

We cultivate plants, as well as a winning culture. Join the team, and you’ll find opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll collaborate with other driven, determined people who together keep Costa Farms an industry leader. You’ll support and be supported by a team that cares about each other, our customers, our consumers, and our community.

You’ll also find right away that Costa Farms is committed to providing a diverse environment. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability, age, military status, marital status or veteran status, or any other group status protected by federal, state, or local law.

The Process Engineer is responsible for process optimization, documentation, and implementation. The successful candidate will improve business processes, increase efficiency, reduce cost, improve sustainability, and maximize profitability. This position will have access to every aspect of our business and manufacturing operations business (Finance, Logistics, Planning, Category Management, Farm Operations, etc.). This role will support projects relating to productivity improvements, capacity utilization analysis, cost analysis, time studies, process flow and documentation, variation analysis, quality control, KPI execution, and overall operating cost reductions.

• Support and lead project initiatives that drive financial improvement to business metrics by developing project charters, Gantt charts, and lead implementations from the beginning to systematic execution.
• Designs, redesigns, or optimize work flows, reduce repetitive motions and to ensure inefficient operations reduced or eliminated.
• Maintains knowledge of best practices in manufacturing methods, and trends and developments in technology and equipment; applies this knowledge to maintain the organization’s competitive edge.
• Maintains and communicates a series of KPIs that highlight improvements, opportunities for resource management, daily/weekly direction setting.
• Establish quality control guidelines from the production process.
• Develops, installs, and maintains equipment to complete the production process.
• Lean manufacturing implementations.
• Identifies and assesses various problems and departures from established manufacturing standards and best practices; researches and recommends solutions.
• Develops and maintains management information, planning, and control systems.
• Implements methods and modifications to reduce production costs.
• Trains employees to carry out and sustain process improvement changes to utilize resources effectively
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
• Experience in lean manufacturing (preferred…