Senior Plant Engineer: Uptime & Safety Leader

Perdue Farms; Perry (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Perdue Foods in Georgia seeks a Senior Plant Engineer to provide technical leadership that keeps plant operations running efficiently and at peak performance. You will guide engineering initiatives to improve uptime, reliability, and production goals using OEE principles, partnering with Operations, Maintenance, and cross‑functional teams.

Ideal candidate has 5+ years in food/manufacturing, experience with AutoCAD and Maximo, and strong collaboration across facilities to drive safety, quality,

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in food or manufacturing.
• Ability to travel to vendors, training seminars, other plants, and corporate offices for meetings and capital planning.
• Effective communication and collaboration across plant and facilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to keep plant operations running efficiently and at peak performance.
• Lead engineering and maintenance projects to achieve key performance goals.
• Develop budgets for future capital projects and manage plant technical expense budgets.
• Ensure facilities meet safety, compliance, quality, and cost objectives.

Tools

AutoCAD

Maximo

Job description

Perdue Foods in Georgia seeks a Senior Plant Engineer to provide technical leadership that keeps plant operations running efficiently and at peak performance. You will guide engineering initiatives to improve uptime, reliability, and production goals using OEE principles, partnering with Operations, Maintenance, and cross‑functional teams.

Ideal candidate has 5+ years in food/manufacturing, experience with AutoCAD and Maximo, and strong collaboration across facilities to drive safety, quality,