Process 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

• Maintain strong floor presence to support operations, identify barriers, and drive process improvement opportunities.
• Spend time on production lines developing deep understanding of all equipment and process flow
• 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 resolve to provide stable operations (equipment, instrumentation, operator interaction/control, etc).
• Conduct root-cause failure analysis for failed machine components with emphasis on repetitive failures, working closely with Maintenance and Reliability department.
• Deliver technical training to operating teams on equipment and processes.
• Support Product Line Supervisors to investigate, resolve, and document all process related issues using data archive system and operation tracking tools.
• Develop and implement engineering standards across the plant that improve machine reliability.
• Identify areas of waste related to utilities, product, and packaging materials and implement projects to reduce these costs.
• Deliver technical training to operators, leads, and supervisors on equipment, process controls, centerlines, and standard work
• Create one point lessons, SOPs, work instructions, and skill validation tools
• Maintain training matrices related to technical and process skills
• Support onboarding qualification of new team members on critical equipment
• Coach frontline team during floor observations to reinforce best practices
• Utilize Redzone and other plant systems to track downtime, losses, actions and trend
• 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
• Partners with Maintenance, Quality, Safety and Operations to resolve issues and improve performance
• Support process reliability, product quality, safe work practices, and training effectiveness
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications & Competencies

• 5-7 year’s project, process or packaging engineering (food manufacturing experience preferred)
• Continuous improvement experience preferred
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to use a keyboard and telephone. Frequent sitting, talking, hearing, and occasional standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, lifting 50lbs, ability to adjust vision for close vision work. Occasional exposure to airborne dust, high humidity and extreme heat are possible in the plant.