Our client, a leading manufacturer in the Food processing and manufacturing industry, is currently seeking to hire an experienced Process Engineer with a background in food processing equipment to join their growing team. The role will be responsible for process design, operation, and implementation. The successful candidate will be able to improve industrial processes to maintain efficiency, reduce cost, improve sustainability, and maximize profitability.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate development and implementation of programs to improve plant reliability.
• Address key operational performance metrics in reliability improvement plans.
• Works with plant management to set actionable plans in place.
• Refine downtime collection process and support plant staff in analyzing downtime, determining root causes, and recommending long-term solutions.
• Assess processes, take measurements, and interpret data.
• Design, run, test and upgrade systems and processes.
• Develop best practices, routines, and innovative solutions to improve production rates and quality of output.
• Lead plant efforts to reduce process variability leading to waste, rate loss or compromised quality.
• Facilitate process improvement teams and train them in advanced concepts.
• Lead efforts to ensure sop’s are in place to sustain process performance improvements.
• Support maintenance & engineering efforts to properly schedule and execute preventative maintenance.
• Use a fact-based approach with data/statistical analysis to improve existing maintenance programs.
• Develop, configure, and optimize industrial processes from inception through to start up and certification.
• Perform process simulations.
• Manage cost and time constraints.
• Perform risk assessments.
• Provide process documentation and operating instructions.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Engineering, Food Science, or related course.
• Minimum 3 – 5 years relevant operations or engineering experience
• Food processing/manufacturing industry experience highly recommended.
• Proven ability in improving reliability operations through practical use of CI tools such as Six-Sigma, Total Quality, Lean Manufacturing, TPM or related process improvement methodologies.
• Proven project management and planning skills.
• Excellent technical skills
• Knowledge of process related standards
• Working knowledge of process engineering software packages
• Strong analytical skills and fact-based decision-making capability.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
• Well-developed computer skills in Excel & Access.