Description

The corporate plant engineer is an experienced and detail-oriented member of the upper management of the company. The Corporate Plant Engineer will be responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of our company’s production facilities to ensure optimal efficiency, safety, and compliance within industry standards and regulations.

Core Responsibilities:

• You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Production Operations, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, Controls Engineering, Process Excellence, and Supply Chain, to drive continuous improvement, maintain product quality, and enhance overall production performance.
• Your role will encompass equipment optimization, improve process capability, process step-to-step enhancement, risk reduction, and close collaboration with various teams.

• Evaluate existing manufacturing processes and identify areas for improvement in efficiency, productivity, process capability, risk, and cost reduction.
• Design and implement improvements to enhance yield, reduce waste, increase throughputs, improve cycle times, reduce bottlenecks, and streamline operations while maintaining strict adherence to food safety and quality standards.
• Collaborate with Data Analytics teams to leverage data for process optimization.
• Collaborate cross functionally to scale up new products from concept to production, ensuring seamless integration into existing manufacturing processes.
• Partner with Maintenance and Reliability Engineering to ensure equipment uptime and reliability as well as integrate predictive maintenance strategies.
• Collaborate with Maintenance for long-term solutions.
• Develop and implement a corporate Predictive Maintenance program.
• Lead or assist in the development of new equipment installations or modifications, from concept to commissioning, with a focus on maximizing output, minimizing downtime, and reducing operational risk.
• Utilize data analysis and statistical techniques to identify bottlenecks, process variability, and areas for improvement in production processes.
• Develop strategies to reduce operational risk and enhance process reliability, working closely with Reliability Engineering
• Define and own manufacturing process control plans.
• Set up in-process measurement systems.

Qualifications

Qualifications: 

Required Skills/Abilities

• 5-10 years of Engineering experience in a food setting in a leadership role
• A strong understanding of food safety regulations and quality management systems (e.g., HACCP, GMP, FDA) or the ability to understand/learn this space is required.
• Collaborative approach and excellent communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to travel approximately 25%
• AutoCAD
• Project Management of capital projects lead

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s in Manufacturing, Mechanical or related Engineering field
• Lean six-sigma certification preferred.
• Experience in operations, maintenance, predictive maintenance implementation is a plus.
• Experience with food manufacturing/distribution in a high-speed setting.
• Multi facilities experience

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

Frequently required sit and operate a computer, periodically required to stand; walk; use of hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or crawl; and to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color, and depth vision. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud. Exposure to allergens such as Soy, Wheat, Tree Nuts, Milk/Dairy, eggs etc.

At Honeyville, Inc., career development is a shared responsibility in which all employees are encouraged to develop, improve, and enhance their skills and professional growth to support our business objectives.