? Develop enterprise-wide strategies to maximize manufacturing performance, capacity, and yield
? Leads efforts to identify and drive productivity projects (yield/usage variance, raw material optimization, waste) including Strategic Projects
? Creates and improves manufacturing instructions and standards to increase efficiency and reduce process variability
? Collaborates with R&D, Manufacturing, and Project Engineering to develop process and equipment standards aligned with operations to ensure successful delivery and start-up of new initiatives
? Develops advanced data analysis tools to expose and eliminate losses
? Provides technical leadership to solve problems, drive improvements in
processing systems and implement standards to ensure long term
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
Years of Experience: 8+ years with some level of food manufacturing engineering required
Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, or Food Engineering (ABET accredited program preferred).
Leadership of structured problem solving approaches such as Lean, Six-Sigma, or TPM is preferred.
Experience with USDA, FDA, OSHA, EPA, requirements for manufacturing processes
Development of statistical models and data analytic tools using MS Excel, VB, SQL, Python are a plus.
- Ability to travel 0 to 50% as required (dependent on location). - The desire to be able to follow our following four pillars: