Engineering Manager - Food Plant
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 $11 B . 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 withHVAC, 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 systemand 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.