Manager of Plant Engineering - Food

Our client – a global food processing company needs a Manager of Plant Engineering at their plant in Wisconsin. Excellent salary Annual Bonus generous relocation benefits package.

Job Posting # 2708

Job Title: Manager of Plant Engineering - Food Location: Darien, WI

Compensation: Salary of $120K - $156K/Yr. Annual Bonus (Target – 15%) Stock purchase Plan

Relocation & Benefits: YES - Client offers a Generous Relocation Benefit 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.