Senior Capital Projects Engineer – Food Manufacturing

C.H. Guenther & Son; United States; Remote; USD 99,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Flexible spending accounts

Employee assistance programs

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

The Senior Project Engineer at C.H. Guenther & Son leads capital project planning and execution across North American sites, partnering with plant leadership, operations, maintenance, R&D, quality, and external engineers to drive capability improvements.

They own project scopes, cost estimates, schedules, and implementation from feasibility through handover, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and KPI delivery. English fluency is essential for cross-site coordination.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• 5 to 10 years of experience executing capital projects or engineering initiatives within a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple million dollars projects.
• Desired experience in food manufacturing, food processing technology, packaging, automation, controls, or frozen/refrigerated manufacturing environments.
• Experience with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, engineering work processes, or capital project management preferred.
• Ability to communicate fluently in English, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening required.

Responsibilities

• Manage capital expenditures, forecasts, and project financial performance to ensure delivery against approved business cases and ROI targets.
• Develop and maintain a balanced annual capital plan for assigned manufacturing site(s) in partnership with maintenance, safety, quality, R&D, operations, and plant leadership.
• Establish, execute, and deliver savings from automation, productivity, capacity, reliability, safety, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead medium to large capital investment projects from feasibility, scope development, and funding approval through engineering design, installation, commissioning, start-up, and handover.
• Prepare project scope, design basis, cost estimates, schedules, business case support, option analyses, RFQs, purchase recommendations, and capital funding packages.
• Coordinate internal stakeholders, external engineering partners, vendors, contractors, construction resources, and plant teams to ensure safe and effective project execution.
• Track and communicate project status, risks, decisions, cost, schedule, quality, deliverables, and post-start-up KPIs to leadership and stakeholders.
• Anticipate potential project issues and develop mitigation plans, contingency plans, and clear requests for support when barriers arise.
• Support new business needs with agility, including product, process, equipment, capacity, packaging, automation, and infrastructure changes.
• Develop, improve, and standardize engineering work processes, project governance, change management, readiness tools, and manufacturing deliverable tracking.
• Ensure projects comply with applicable food safety, quality, occupational health and safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements, including HACCP, GMP, SQF, CFIA or equivalent country requirements, and local, state/provincial, and federal laws.
• Travel across North America to manufacturing sites, vendor locations, and project sites may be required (20%).

Skills

Project management

Capital planning

Vendor management

Change management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

MS Project

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Senior Project Engineer at C.H. Guenther & Son leads capital project planning and execution across North American sites, partnering with plant leadership, operations, maintenance, R&D, quality, and external engineers to drive capability improvements.

They own project scopes, cost estimates, schedules, and implementation from feasibility through handover, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and KPI delivery. English fluency is essential for cross-site coordination.