What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Engineer position at McCain Foods?
Position Title: Project Engineer
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41939
Project Engineer
Easton, ME
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences —together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role.
Manage the development, design, and execution of critical capital engineering projects related to plant operations, expansions, and the implementation of state-of-the-art technologies. This role involves creating, developing, and deploying new processes and equipment at McCain’s facilities, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization to ensure smooth project start-up, handover, and improved operational performance.
What You’ll Be Doing.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: $85,500.00 - $114,000.00 . USD annually Bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): US - United States of America : Maine : Easton
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41939
Project Engineer
Easton, ME
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences —together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role.
Manage the development, design, and execution of critical capital engineering projects related to plant operations, expansions, and the implementation of state-of-the-art technologies. This role involves creating, developing, and deploying new processes and equipment at McCain’s facilities, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization to ensure smooth project start-up, handover, and improved operational performance.
What You’ll Be Doing.
- Oversee the design and review of equipment and systems while applying corporate standards.
- Define project scope and requirements; interface with engineers to ensure alignment and compliance.
- Collaborate with internal and external project teams for seamless project execution from conception to launch.
- Evaluate and introduce new process technologies to enhance existing systems and resolve process or safety concerns.
- Work closely with finance, production, and safety teams to develop capital project justifications and Requests for Expenditure Authorization (REAs) efficiently.
- Acquire and negotiate contractor bids, coordinate with procurement, and prepare project specifications or tender documents.
- Manage release of design inputs to suppliers (contractors, component suppliers) and conduct supplier site visits to confirm equipment compatibility with existing plant infrastructure.
- Produce detailed documentation including site visit reports, meeting minutes, material lists, purchase orders, installation schedules, and other installation documentation.
- Develop and refine installation techniques and standards.
- Administer capital projects (ranging from 100K to 2MM) ensuring alignment with deadlines and budgets.
- Effectively recognize and utilize available project resources.
- Address and resolve technical issues as identified by suppliers and manage technical documentation.
- Provide technical support to processing facilities aiming for improvements in quality and efficiency.
- Promote and manage continuous improvements within the facility.
- Ensure compliance with safety principles: nothing we do is worth getting hurt for; safety must be proactively managed; every injury is preventable.
- Ability to travel across North America (expected travel: 35-45%).
- No direct reports; supervision is on a functional basis, including third-party and internal resources.
- Uses project management and influence skills to drive results.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Chemical) or a related field; or equivalent related experience.
- Up to five (5) years’ experience preferred, ideally directly related to food processing.
- Familiarity with processing techniques and maintaining plant system documents, process flow sheets, block diagrams, schedules, and spend tracking.
- Proven experience with AutoCAD.
- Ability to read, interpret, and analyze technical procedures, journals, and government regulations.
- Skilled in report writing, business correspondence, and the creation of procedure manuals.
- Effective presenter with strong communication skills for audiences ranging from managers to customers.
- Proficient in word processing and spreadsheet software.
- Proficient in AutoCAD and Microsoft Project.
- Ability to apply probability, statistical inference, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to real-world scenarios.
- Ability to solve practical problems with limited standardization; capable of interpreting varied instructions.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: $85,500.00 - $114,000.00 . USD annually Bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): US - United States of America : Maine : Easton
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Salary : $85,500 - $114,000