Senior Process Engineer

Your Opportunity as a Senior Process Engineer

In this role, you will oversee Sandwich Making and/or Bakery Operations. Ensure standardization across the operating departments and lead targeted initiatives to drive improvement across the site.

In this role you will:

• Serve as Process Engineer onboarding lead, mentoring new engineers and interns, building skills in troubleshooting, project management, and effective use of Operations Excellence tools.
• Responsible for developing career path and skill growth for direct reports including performing mid-year and year-end reviews as well as compensation planning.
• Can perform gap analysis on key production metrics and demonstrate deep understanding of the 7-Step Process.
• Lead failure analysis using Operations Excellence tools.
• Owns, executes, reports on, and can develop department and site Masterplan items.
• Perform a key role in building the fundamental understanding within the operating technicians in pursuit of a high-performance culture
• Support technical efforts to evaluate and improve on processes and formulations in manufacturing plant to improve production rates, efficiencies, and yield while maintaining reliable and safe manufacturing systems by collaborating with production teams and leadership.
• Provide technical guidance between operations and R&D/Engineering on new product/process development, act as liaison between R&D/Engineering and Operations for scheduling and conducting plant test runs.
• Coordinate and lead plant trials to evaluate new ingredients and/or new processing/packaging parameters.
• Identify, Develop, and Execute savings projects, can include developing the funding request, managing the capital and engineering through start up.
• Provide technical leadership within cross functional teams to deliver initiatives and departmental projects.
• Serves as an expert within the plant in a key business area or discipline.
• Employs effective interpersonal time and resource management skills to complete projects assignments
• Leads multiple projects simultaneously, using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to drive improvements
• Build and leverage strong internal/external network to gain insight, influence and information.
• Solve complex problems; take a broad perspective to identify creative and innovative solutions.
• Develop and improve process documentation.
• Help organization stay current with applicable new technologies/ingredients.
• Support and provide guidance to operations/engineering organizations on evaluation of new production opportunities, improving existing operations, cost-saving ideas, and troubleshooting of major problems.
• Monitor new products trends/competitive trend and activities.

The Right Role for You

Are you motivated by the chance to help provide quality products consumers count on every day? Are you interested in working with a collaborative team to get the job done while learning new skills? If so, you are exactly who we are looking for to join our Company!

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required Mechanical, Chemical, or Industrial preferred
• Manufacturing experience, preferably in food
• At least 3 years of experience in project management/construction management is required
• Familiarity with food ingredient chemistry and/or food processing and packaging equipment is desirable
• Willingness to have a workload balance that includes systems tasks as well as laboratory, pilot plant, and manufacturing plant tasks.
• Problem solving ability
• Solid inter-personal skills
• Ability to teach and lead others, working independently, with guidance in only the most complicated situations
• An understanding of the Capital Delivery Process is desired
• Open to managing operating teams as needed (as backup or future assignment)
• Can work off shift or weekends as needed
• Willingness to travel 30% of the work schedule. Travel includes vendor and Smucker plant visits.

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