Plant Process Improvement Engineer

Eagle Family Foods; Illinois; On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Eagle Family Foods in Illinois is seeking a packaging/process engineer with 5-7 years of experience to support operations and drive continuous improvement. You will analyze line performance, identify barriers, and implement projects to boost throughput, reliability, and product quality.

The role requires hands-on floor work, collaboration with maintenance, quality, safety, and operations, and the ability to convert data into actionable improvements. Food manufacturing experience preferred.

Qualifications

• 5-7 year’s project, process or packaging engineering (food manufacturing experience preferred).
• Continuous improvement experience preferred.
• The employee must be able to use a keyboard and telephone; frequent sitting, talking, hearing, and occasional standing, kneeling, crouching, lifting up to 50lbs in a plant environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain strong floor presence to support operations, identify barriers, and drive process improvement opportunities.
• Execute plant priorities established by CI and Engineering Manager.
• Execute capital projects that support improved safety, new product launches, existing product expansions, improved efficiencies/throughput, and increased reliability.
• Identify and resolve line process and packaging equipment barriers to meet nameplate capacities and provide stable operations.
• Deliver technical training to operating teams on equipment and processes.
• Support Kaizen events, loss elimination projects, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help sustain 5s, standard work, and accountability.
• Track action items and ensure follow through on assigned projects.

Skills

Packaging engineering

Continuous improvement

Manufacturing experience

Job description

Eagle Family Foods in Illinois is seeking a packaging/process engineer with 5-7 years of experience to support operations and drive continuous improvement. You will analyze line performance, identify barriers, and implement projects to boost throughput, reliability, and product quality.

The role requires hands-on floor work, collaboration with maintenance, quality, safety, and operations, and the ability to convert data into actionable improvements. Food manufacturing experience preferred.