Senior Project / Process Engineer for Food Industry

Danmare Group Inc; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and design company in York Region is seeking a Senior Project Manager with over 10 years of experience in the food, beverage, and pet food industries. The role involves leading project teams, managing installations, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in engineering and professional engineer status, alongside strong project management and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant engineering, project management, consulting, or design experience.
• Experience in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and pet nutrition industries.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead major project initiatives and teams.
• Liaise with vendors for proper installation.
• Manage end-to-end project planning and execution.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Communication

Negotiation

Team Building

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, Electrical, or Civil

Professional Engineer status

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Project

Excel

Microsoft Office

Visio

Job description

Job Description

About Danmare The Danmare Group specializes in providing full-service engineering and design solutions to leading companies in the food and beverage industry. Over the past fourteen years, clients have enlisted our expert team to manage challenging projects from start to finish. We take a collaborative approach that considers all stakeholder requirements to satisfy the unique needs of our clients. Our skilled team of professionals manage the process design, equipment specifications, plant layout, equipment qualifications, construction, and installations, manage vendors so our clients are provided with successful projects, on time and within budget.

The Opportunity The role requires a minimum of 10 years of relevant engineering, project management, consulting, or design experiences to drive and manage multiple projects for a variety of clients in the food, beverage, and pet food industries.

The Team Our team is comprised of a diverse and multi-disciplinary discipline, professional engineers, designers, project managers, who have extensive experiences leading, and managing multimillion dollar projects for clients who are leaders in their respective industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead major project initiatives, identifying equipment capabilities, utility and infrastructure requirements, and developing layout concepts.
• Manage and lead multiple disciplinary teams, providing guidance and mentoring team members.
• Liaise with vendors and contractors to ensure proper installation of all project requirements.
• Lead and support site start-up teams, troubleshoot and resolve issues by collaborating with vendor equipment technicians during installation and start up.
• Oversee the development of Engineering Check-out, Equipment Acceptance Testing, start-up/validation processes.
• Develop and maintain project plans and coordinate project activities; track critical path milestones.
• Ensure end-to-end project planning, risk identification, dependency management, issue escalation, and change management using best practice project management standards.
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations during project design, implementation, commissioning, and process qualification.
• Interact with core disciplines (structural, electrical, controls, process), as well as internal and external clients to coordinate and achieve project objectives in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of CFIA, USDA and FDA food equipment clean design requirements.
• Prepare and issue tender documents to 3rd party vendors/contractors and complete the process with awarding tenders.
• Recommend, manage, and implement efforts to streamline the organization’s processes and establish best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, Electrical, or Civil.
• Professional Engineer status.
• Previous experience in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and pet nutrition industries.
• Working knowledge of FDA and USDA food equipment and clean design standards.
• Able to work flexible hours, weekends if required.
• Experience using AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, Excel, Microsoft Office, and Visio.
• Project concept development, design, procurement and installation of equipment experiences.
• Construction/contractor management, commissioning, and validation experiences.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, collaborative, persuasive with strong team building, conflict management, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Up to 40% travel may be required to support and service clients.
• Valid Ontario driver’s license; valid passport. US-based projects may require relocation for 9 to 12 months.