Manufacturing Engineer

Lean Six Sigma, Capital Projects & Process Optimization | 1st Shift

This Jobot Job is hosted by:
Adrian Martinez

Salary: $90,000 - $125,000 per year

Founded nearly four decades ago and based in Delphos, Ohio, we are an established food manufacturer producing refrigerated dips, desserts, yoghurt, salsa, and specialty foods sold in grocery stores nationwide. Since our founding in 1988, we have grown from a small local operation into a trusted family of recognizable refrigerated brands while maintaining our commitment to quality, consistency, and thoughtful innovation.

We continue to invest in our equipment, engineering capabilities, and manufacturing processes to support future growth and ensure our products are produced safely, efficiently, and consistently.

• High-Impact Role:
  Improve the production lines, equipment, processes, and technical standards that drive daily plant performance.
• Lean Six Sigma Ownership:
  Lead measurable projects involving throughput, capacity, downtime, yield, waste, and operating costs.
• Capital Project Exposure:
  Manage equipment projects from business justification and vendor selection through installation and startup.
• Full Project Lifecycle:
  Own improvements from initial data analysis through implementation, validation, documentation, and handoff.
• Stable 1st-Shift
  
  Schedule:
  
  Primary schedule of 6:00 a.m.
  
  -2:30 p.m.
• Hands-On Engineering:
  Work directly with production, maintenance, quality, operations, vendors, contractors, and equipment suppliers.
• Growing Manufacturer:
  Join an established organization with nearly four decades of food-manufacturing experience.
• Technical Variety:
  Support process engineering, equipment selection, production trials, new-product introductions, automation, and plant utilities.

We are seeking a hands-on Manufacturing Engineer to define, improve, and document how products are manufactured within our Delphos facility. This individual will use Lean Six Sigma, production data, and engineering analysis to establish process parameters, improve line capability, identify production constraints, reduce losses, and resolve chronic equipment and process problems.

The Manufacturing Engineer will also manage capital projects, equipment installations, commissioning, production trials, and new-product introductions. Success in this role is measured by whether production lines achieve documented rates, capital projects deliver their promised capabilities, new equipment starts successfully, and recurring technical problems are permanently resolved.

• Define, validate, and document production-process parameters, equipment settings, and line run rates.
• Analyze production data, line capability, and capacity to identify constraining equipment or process steps.
• Quantify losses involving downtime, speed, yield, waste, changeovers, material usage, and utility consumption.
• Apply Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve throughput, quality, reliability, process consistency, and operating costs.
• Determine whether performance gaps originate from maintenance conditions, incorrect settings, design limitations, materials, or equipment specifications.
• Lead root-cause investigations into chronic equipment and process problems.
• Develop and implement permanent engineering corrective actions.
• Evaluate equipment capability against product and packaging requirements.
• Assess material, ingredient, and packaging changes for machinability.
• Develop process-flow documentation, line layouts, equipment specifications, and utility requirements.
• Track operational performance through OEE and related manufacturing metrics.

• Develop project scopes, capital…