Our client – a global food processing company needs an Engineering Manager- Food Plant at their plant in Wisconsin. Excellent salary + Annual Bonus + generous relocation + benefits package.
Job Posting # 2712R
Job Title: Engineering Manager- Food Plant
Location: Darien, WI
Compensation: Salary of $130K - $165K/Yr + Annual Bonus (Target – 15%) + Stock purchase Plan
Relocation & Benefits: YES - Client offers a Generous Relocation + Benefits Package
Company Info:
Our client is a premier food producer. It is a global company in business for 100 + years, with sales of around $11B+ and 18K+ people worldwide and around 38 plants.
Group Info: Be part of a plant with 700K Sq Feet of plant size with around 800 people, processing raw vegetables into frozen packages and meals. This plant has capex budget of $30M per year and is commissioning a state of the art 100-foot Tunnel Freezer using refrigerant Ammonia + Nitrogen.
This role reports to the Plant Manager and will have 4 direct reports – 1 Project Engineer, 1 Automation Controls Engineer, 1 Facility-Utility Manager and 1 PSM Co-Ordinator. The Maintenance department does NOT report to this role.
Note 1: The plant does not use city water, but treats water from Wells. The plant also treats, its own waste water using Septic system. Any experience in water/waste treatment is not required but a huge plus.
Note 2: The plant has extensive refrigeration systems using Ammonia & Nitrogen for product flash freezing and Cold storage freezers and plant HVAC. Any experience in above gases is not required but a huge plus.
Note 3: The plant process raw vegetables and has extensive process food safety, environmental safety programs in place. Any experience in Process Plant Safety is not required but a huge plus.
Note 4: The plant Project Engineer handles smaller local projects. All huge capital expansion project like the 100-foot Tunnel freezer is handled by the Corporate Project Management team. Project Management of large CAPEX projects is not required but a huge plus.
Job Summary:
- Develop and implement overall plant technical strategies focused on engineering projects, maintenance and stores improvement programs.
- Develop vertical startup processes to ensure implementation of low loss production systems.
- Provide solutions to technical problems and recommendations for improvements in production activities and manage the plant technical organization.
- Develop and lead plant specific engineering strategies to achieve performance goals.
- Create/manage dept. plant expense budgets and work with Corporate Engineering to deliver the capital budget.
Job Description:
- Assist Plant in establishing safety of all of our team members as the plant's first objective.
- Lead the cross-functional development and implementation of the capital plan including the engagement of related Plant and Corporate functions such as Safety, Sanitation, Quality, Environmental, Operations, Maintenance, Finance and Operations
- Work with Platform Engineering Director to resource projects including Engineering Project Manager, Subject Matter Expert and Startup Manager roles.
- Support the Plant in conducting internal systems audits.
- Support the Plant in providing direction and lead the EM Pillar Team in the development of long and short-term plans and goals for the Plant.
- Support the Plant in providing project and technical support to the plant and division.
- Support the Plant in participating on and leading project teams that improve safety, quality, utilization, labor relations, sanitation, costs and customer service.
- Manage the Utilities team and ensure functionality and compliance within our plant utilities processes such as: Refrigeration, Ammonia, Nitrogen, Steam, Natural Gas and Compressed Air.
- Lead the Plant in preparing and conducting necessary team meetings for proper communications and development of teams.
- Must also have the ability to work with Maintenance, Quality, Production and Warehouse teams to create a cooperative environment.
- Give work direction and coordinating mechanical and clerical activities in the maintenance department.
Candidate Must Have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
- Min. 5 years of experience in Food Manufacturing plants.
- 2+ years of Management experience in Food plant engineering and/or Projects
- Good leadership skills. Work as a peer mentor and advisor to other departments.
- Lead and work well within cross functional teams
- Ability to rotate shifts and work weekends and holidays when required
- Experience communicating with all levels at the plant and making presentations to all levels
Nice to Have:
- PE license or Master’s degree
- Project Management Professional - PMP certified
- Project Management experience for expansion/upgrades and working with Corporate PM group.
- Utilities – Facilities experience with HVAC, Compress Air, Natural gas, Steam, Well and Waste water treatment, Electrical Power etc.
- Refrigeration systems experience with Ammonia, Nitrogen for food flash + storage freezers.
- Plant Process Food Safety and PSM experience.
- Experience with AutoCAD, SolidWorks or similar.
- Experience with SAP or other ERP applications.
- Maintenance Engineering, CMMS system and Management.
Keywords: Project Manager, Manager Engineering, Manager Projects, manufacturing, plant, USDA, FDA, Food, PMP, Project Engineer, PE, Refrigeration Ammonia, Nitrogen, SAP, PSM, Well – Waste Water treatment.