Lead Technical Process Engineer – Dairy Plant Projects

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife's portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit

job purpose:
Under limited supervision, the Technical Processing Engineer (TPE) will provide technical solutions and expertise in operations, engineering, and maintenance. The TPE will manage, coordinate, and oversee technical projects, maintenance, and engineering solutions. This individual will plan, direct and execute all projects with necessary vendors and in-house resources. They are responsible for ensuring and improving the performance, productivity, training and efficiencies for the Webster, NY plant through provision of effective methods, controls, and strategies.

responsibilities:

• Manage strategic, technical projects and tasks in an extremely fast-paced environment
• Serve as a top resource and technical expert for the processing department in all disciplines of maintenance, processing equipment, and production
• Ability to program, modify and adjust PLC logic (Rockwell platform), VFD's, network switches
• Engineer solutions using poke yoke mentality to improve processing equipment reliability. Assist technical engineers, maintenance, and ICT personnel with fishbone and 5-why lean practices for troubleshooting and resolving reoccurring issues
• Work hand in hand with plant vendors to reverse engineer critical parts/components of equipment. Ensure quality parts are made to specification and assign revisions for precise documentation
• Lead the planning and implementation of processing technical projects. Develop plans, manage budget, plan and schedule project timelines, track project deliverables using appropriate tools, provide direction and support to project team, constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders, implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve desired project outputs and evaluations and assessment of project results
• Modify and update P&'s prior to and after project execution
• Coordinate, assist, plan, and monitor the work of the maintenance and processing departments. Monitor performance, discover root cause, MTBF implement improvements to eradicate variances. Provide technical support where necessary
• Develop, train, assist, support, and collaborate to maintain a continuous improvement culture throughout the entire facility, across all departments forging an innovative environment which utilizes data tools available to drive root causes
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, effective day one!
• Supplemental health plans (hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance)
• Paid Time Off to recharge and support work-life balance
• Paid parental leave & adoption assistance (up to $10,000)
• Parental support & family care benefits, including childcare resources and lactation support
• 401(k) to support retirement planning with up to 9% in employer match
• Wellness reimbursement (up to $500 for qualified wellbeing expenses)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for emotional wellbeing and work-life support
• Company-paid life insurance and short-term disability
• Employer HSA funding (for HDHP participants)
• Tuition reimbursement (up to $10,000) and student loan repayment ($200/month)
• Learning & development programs to unlock your full potential
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