Senior Process Engineer

The Process Engineer is responsible for loss analysis, loss intelligence and loss elimination throughout the Operation. Process Engineers work with Leadership and Core Teams to build capability and engagement, to support the Core in achieving performance improvement goals (safety, quality, delivery and cost.) Participation in the daily, monthly and annual “Plan, Do, Check, Adjust” loss analysis process, to track performance and develop plans and actions to meet or exceed site targets is an essential part of the role. 

The key skills of a Process Engineer are root cause analysis, change management and coaching others. These skills are developed and grown as part of the Focused Improvement Pillar of the Integrated Lean Six Sigma program. The Process Engineer also leads various teams responsible for identifying, documenting and controlling best practices in their functional area. 

The Process Engineer employs a logical approach; is driven, accountable, and understands the value of bringing science and engineering to manufacturing. This includes assuring permanent achievement of high quality products by managing all aspects related to the manufacturing process (process routes, process technologies and parameters, process related procedures and work instructions, compliance with standard recipes, GMP). Process Engineers are strong agents of change and possesses the ability to lead and motivate others. 

How you will contribute 

You will: 

• Provide training on CI/FI tools and techniques. You will also help departments follow our established daily management system (DMS)

• Overseeing manufacturing standards implementation, adherence, and modernization deployment 

• Providing technical guidance to Lean Six Sigma efforts to support the Measurement System Analysis

• Help teams collect data or extract it from the system to support CI activities and the DMS 

• Facilitate root-cause analysis to address identified losses and departmental KPI scorecard gaps 

• Establish new work standards to sustain improvement 

• Train and qualify colleagues on CI tools and new work standards resulting from CI activities 

What you will bring 

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge: 

• CI and high-performance work systems experience 

• Strong facilitation and communication skills to support team discussions on CI Activities

• Application of lean and/or TPM tools in a factory or operations environment 

• Ability to manipulate and validate data in manual and automated systems 

• Mastery of Excel and other data analytics tools

• Organized and disciplined to support and educate on the DMS process

• Logical and structured thinking to extract insights from data 

Job specific requirements: 

• Must have Microsoft Suite expertise 

• Ability to challenge the status quo and work collaboratively between functions

•  Ability to work independently and drive results critical 

Education / Certifications: 

• Bachelors’ Degree (required) in Food Science; Chemical, Food, Packaging, or Industrial Engineering; Chemistry; Statistics; Information Systems; Operations Management or similar degree preferred or relevant years’ experience 

• Green Belt / Black Belt As desire  

Preferred Experience: 

• Previous experience as Process Engineer / FI Engineer / IL6S Engineer 

• Previous experience leading, motivating and engaging teams

• Knowledge of Integrated Lean Six Sigma Work Systems 

• Knowledge of Measurement Methods and Statistical Analysis 

• Previous Project Management experience 

• Previous experience in Production, Process or Continuous Improvement experience within Food Manufacturing 

• Familiar with FDA and USDA regulations and requirements 

• Green Belt/Black Belt 

Work schedule: 

• Full Time - Primarily 1st shift Monday - Friday