Leading food/beverage manufacturer seeks a Process Engineer at a 250 person, non-union facility located in a Midwest Metro. Requires: Bachelors degree in ChE, or other Engineering, Technical degree with 4-5 years process engineering experience in high-speed food packaging equipment, within a High Performance Work Team environment.
Job Duties: Position will facilitate process design, development and cost reduction projects across all aspects of the plant cost structure. Focusing on maintaining and improving production rates, efficiencies, yields, changeovers, etc across several lines. Responsible for conducting and maintaining capacity analysis of production lines, determining key bottlenecks and developing efficiency improvement projects.
In addition, will drive continuous process improvement efforts across plant including continued implementation of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement principles, process optimization, KPI improvements, cost savings projects, root cause analysis, etc.
Position reports directly to the Operations Manager. Supports the local Management team in upstream smart solutions/Best Practice Replication. Coordinates and/or executes specific skill training for salaried and hourly employees to drive broad lean manufacturing practices to the plant floor.
