Senior Project Engineer

Posted 117ds ago

Employment Information

Education
Salary
Experience
Job Type

Report this job

Job expired or something wrong with this job?

Job Description

Senior Project Engineer leading the design, installation and start-up of packaging equipment projects for Feed Supply Chain and Manufacturing operations. Requires Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience, remotely based in the USA.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design, installation and start-up of plant construction or process equipment projects for Feed Supply Chain and Manufacturing operations
  • Focus on packaging equipment
  • Develop project and process design, capital and expense estimates
  • Contractor selection
  • Equipment specifications and purchases
  • Implementation timeline coordination
  • Provide recommended methods and standard operating practices to optimize processes and meet product specifications
  • Prepare process designs and equipment specifications
  • Track equipment condition and provide long-term projections for repairs/replacements
  • Work closely with Feed Engineering Manager and Plant Managers on capital approval and implementation steps
  • Ensure expected improvements are obtained from capital investments
  • Conduct process evaluations in the forms of process system audits and in-plant testing
  • Evaluate process variables and provide recommendations for processing and energy efficiency improvements
  • Implementation of process improvements and validations of improvements

Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree with concentration in Mechanical, Agricultural, Food, Feed Process Engineering or related degree
  • 10+ years related work experience
  • Technical experience in packaging equipment and robotics is highly preferred
  • Technical processing expertise for Feed Operations highly preferred
  • Solid working knowledge of mechanical or agricultural engineering and processing plants and equipment
  • Highly effective communications is required.
  • Strong interpersonal skills are required to sell and implement improvement projects.
  • Ability to collaborate closely with operators on the plant and processing floor to understand equipment variables and equipment operations.
  • Ability to understand root cause of problems and develop solutions is critical to success.
  • Fact based reasoning and recommendations are essential to optimizing process variables and systems.

Benefits:

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • PTO
  • life & disability insurance
  • education assistance
  • 401k
  • variety of well-being resources