Process Engineer, Food Manufacturing: Drive Reliability & Growth

Eagle Family Foods; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Eagle Foods is seeking a Plant Engineer to support operations and drive continuous improvement across production lines.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in Engineering and at least 3 years of training experience, plus a year or more in project, process, or packaging engineering in food manufacturing. Duties include capital projects, process optimization, and training operators to ensure reliable, safe production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required. Chemical, Mechanical, Packaging Engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain strong floor presence to support operations and drive process improvements.
• Spend time on production lines to develop deep understanding of 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 line process and packaging equipment barriers to meet nameplate capacities and provide stable operations.
• Conduct root-cause failure analysis for failed machine components with emphasis on repetitive failures with Maintenance and Reliability teams.
• Deliver technical training to operating teams on equipment and processes.
• Develop and implement engineering standards across the plant to improve machine reliability.
• Identify areas of waste related to utilities, product, and packaging materials and implement cost-reduction projects.
• Deliver training to operators, leads, and supervisors on equipment, process controls, and standard work.
• Create one point lessons, SOPs, work instructions, and 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 plant systems to track downtime, losses, actions and trends.
• Support Kaizen events and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help sustain 5S, standard work and accountability.
• Track action items and ensure follow-through on projects.
• Collaborate with Maintenance, Quality, Safety and Operations to resolve issues and improve performance.

Skills

Training experience

Continuous improvement

Process engineering

Packaging engineering

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

Eagle Foods is seeking a Plant Engineer to support operations and drive continuous improvement across production lines.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in Engineering and at least 3 years of training experience, plus a year or more in project, process, or packaging engineering in food manufacturing. Duties include capital projects, process optimization, and training operators to ensure reliable, safe production.