Food Plant Process Engineer: CI & Reliability

Eagle Family Foods

Waukegan, IL

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Capital Project, Category Management, Chemical Engineering, Consumer Branding, Continuous Improvement, Cost Control, Entrepreneurship, Establish Priorities, Failure Analysis, Follow Through, Food Production, Food and Beverage Industry, Grocery Stores, Instrumentation, Keyboards, Lift/Move 50 Pounds, Marketing, Mechanical Engineering, Merchandising, Onboarding, Operational Support, Problem Solving Skills, Process Control Engineering, Process Engineering, Process Improvement, Product Marketing, Product Packaging, Product Safety, Product Support, Product/Service Launch, Reliability Engineering, Retail Channel, Root Cause Analysis, Safety/Work Safety, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), System Operations, Technical Training, United States Military
LOCATION
Waukegan, IL
POSTED
2 days ago

Overview At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.Responsibilities Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesMaintain strong floor presence to support operations, identify barriers, and drive process improvement opportunities.Spend time on production lines developing deep understanding of all equipment and process flowExecute plant priorities established by CI and Engineering ManagerExecute capital projects that support improved safety, new product launches, existing product expansions, improved efficiencies/throughput, and increased reliability.Identify and resolve line process andpackaging equipment barriers to meet nameplate capacities and resolve to provide stable operations (equipment, instrumentation, operator interaction/control, etc).Conduct root-cause failure analysis for failed machine components with emphasis on repetitive failures, working closely with Maintenance and Reliability department.Deliver technical training to operating teams on equipment and processes.Support Product Line Supervisors to investigate, resolve, and document all process related issues using data archive system and operation tracking tools.Develop and implement engineering standards across the plant that improve machine reliability.Identify areas of waste related to utilities, product, and packaging materials and implement projects to reduce these costs.Deliver technical training to operators, leads, and supervisors on equipment, process controls, centerlines, and standard workCreate one point lessons, SOPs, work instructions, and skill validation toolsMaintain training matrices related to technical and process skillsSupport onboarding qualification of new team members on critical equipmentCoach frontline team during floor observations to reinforce best practicesUtilize Redzone and other plant systems to track downtime, losses, actions and trendSupport Kaizen events, loss elimination projects, and continuous improvement initiativesHelp sustain 5s, standard work, and accountabilityTrack action items and ensure follow through on assigned projectsPartners with Maintenance, Quality, Safety and Operations to resolve issues and improve performanceSupport process reliability, product quality, safe work practices, and training effectivenessPerforms other duties as assignedQualifications Qualifications & CompetenciesBachelor's Degree in Engineering Required. Chemical, Mechanical, Packaging Engineering preferred5-7 year's project, process or packaging engineering (food manufacturing experience preferred)Continuous improvement experience preferredWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to use a keyboard and telephone. Frequent sitting, talking, hearing, and occasional standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, lifting 50lbs, ability to adjust vision for close vision work. Occasional exposure to airborne dust, high humidity and extreme heat are possible in the plant.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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