Manufacturing Process Engineer: Continuous Improvement

Eagle Foods, LLC; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Eagle Foods in El Paso, TX seeks an Engineering professional to lead continuous improvement initiatives on the production floor. You will work on equipment understanding, implement process improvements, and support capital projects that enhance safety and throughput across the plant.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Engineering and at least 3 years of training experience, plus hands-on experience in project, process or packaging engineering within food manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required; chemical/mechanical/packaging engineering preferred.
• 3+ years of training experience.
• 1+ year’s project, process or packaging engineering (food manufacturing experience preferred).
• Continuous improvement experience preferred.
• Ability to operate in a plant environment and lift up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain strong floor presence to support operations and drive process improvement.
• Spend time on production lines to develop deep understanding of all equipment and process flow.
• Execute plant priorities established by CI Manager.
• Execute capital projects that improve safety, new product launches, throughput, and reliability.
• Identify and resolve barriers to meet nameplate capacities and ensure stable operations.
• Conduct root-cause failure analysis for failed machine components with maintenance and reliability teams.
• Deliver technical training to operating teams on equipment and processes.
• Support onboarding qualification of new team members on critical equipment.
• Coach frontline team during floor observations to reinforce best practices.
• Track downtime, losses, actions and trend using plant systems.

Skills

Process improvement

Root-cause analysis

Training

Team coaching

Kaizen

Project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Engineering disciplines: Chemical/Mechanical/Packaging preferred

Job description

Eagle Foods in El Paso, TX seeks an Engineering professional to lead continuous improvement initiatives on the production floor. You will work on equipment understanding, implement process improvements, and support capital projects that enhance safety and throughput across the plant.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Engineering and at least 3 years of training experience, plus hands-on experience in project, process or packaging engineering within food manufacturing.