Plant Engineer: Reliability & Project Leader

Sugaright (Division of CSC Sugar); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Sugaright, LLC is seeking a hands-on Plant Engineer to support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of our Dallas facility. This role leads and supports capital projects, equipment reliability initiatives, process improvements, troubleshooting, and plant engineering documentation.

You will collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, contractors, and equipment vendors to drive uptime, safety, and productivity while maintaining P&IDs and asset records.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, or related engineering discipline.
• At least three years of engineering experience in manufacturing or similar industrial environments.
• Knowledge of project management, process improvement, industrial equipment, reliability, and workplace safety.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day engineering support to Operations and Maintenance.
• Troubleshoot equipment, process, utility, and control-system issues.
• Develop practical corrective actions that improve equipment reliability and plant performance.
• Plan and execute capital and expense projects from initial concept through installation, startup, and closeout.
• Prepare project scopes, budgets, schedules, specifications, bid packages, cost estimates, and engineering documentation.
• Coordinate contractors, vendors, equipment suppliers, and internal project resources.
• Monitor project safety, quality, cost, and schedule performance.
• Analyze equipment failures, downtime, operating trends, and process data.
• Recommend improvements to increase throughput, product quality, energy efficiency, yield, and equipment availability.
• Partner with Maintenance to strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Support equipment criticality reviews, spare-parts planning, and root-cause failure analysis.
• Maintain and update P&IDs, drawings, equipment files, operating manuals, specifications, and asset records.
• Support Management of Change activities and ensure plant modifications are properly reviewed, documented, and communicated.
• Ensure engineering work complies with applicable safety, environmental, food-safety, quality, building, and fire-code requirements.
• Participate in safety reviews, inspections, audits, incident investigations, and corrective-action tracking.
• Provide technical guidance and training to plant employees.
• Support plant shutdowns, outages, emergency repairs, and startups as needed.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

Project management

Reading P&IDs

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, or related engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

CMMS

MS Office

Job description

Sugaright, LLC is seeking a hands-on Plant Engineer to support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of our Dallas facility. This role leads and supports capital projects, equipment reliability initiatives, process improvements, troubleshooting, and plant engineering documentation.

You will collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, contractors, and equipment vendors to drive uptime, safety, and productivity while maintaining P&IDs and asset records.