Job Description
Senior Process Engineer
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Title: Senior Plant Engineer
Location: Goodland, Kansas
Salary: 120-130k
Title: Senior Plant Engineer
Location: Goodland, Kansas
Salary: 120-130k
About the Opportunity:
Our client, a leading organization in the agricultural processing industry, is seeking a Senior Plant Engineer to support and optimize operations at a crush facility in Goodland, Kansas. Reporting directly to the Plant Manager, this role will focus on process improvement, capital project execution, operational performance, and continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring strong engineering expertise, project management skills, and experience within oilseed crushing or similar processing environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify process improvement opportunities, develop solutions, and lead implementation efforts.
- Conduct optimization assessments to improve energy efficiency, chemical usage, product yields, reliability, and overall plant performance.
- Analyze existing processes and recommend cost-saving and performance-enhancing solutions.
- Ensure safety and environmental considerations are incorporated into facility modifications and capital projects.
- Collaborate with maintenance, controls, quality, and operations teams to develop and execute process improvements.
- Manage and oversee assigned capital projects from concept through startup.
- Support day-to-day plant operations, including tracking costs, yields, quality metrics, and process performance.
- Troubleshoot and improve chemical and mechanical processes to enhance operational efficiency.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3+ years of engineering experience in a food processing, agricultural processing, or similar manufacturing environment.
- 3+ years of oilseed crush experience.
- Strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities and strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to anticipate operational challenges and develop effective solutions.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Goodland, KS |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $120,000–$130,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Agricultural Engineeringunmatched
- Agricultureunmatched
- Capital Projectunmatched
- Chemical Engineeringunmatched
- Chemical Processesunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Crushingunmatched
- Energy Efficiencyunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Operations Processesunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Analysisunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Process Engineeringunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Startupunmatched
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