Senior Process Engineer — Sous Vide Plant Leader

Cuisine Solutions; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cuisine Solutions in Sterling, VA seeks an experienced Senior Process Engineer to lead engineering, maintenance, and automation for a sous vide food manufacturing plant. You will drive reliability, safety, and quality across utilities, process systems, and facilities.

Your role collaborates with Operations, Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Supply Chain, Finance, and Leadership to deliver continuous improvements and capital projects that expand capacity and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field required.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering, maintenance, reliability, or technical operations in regulated manufacturing.
• 7+ years of leadership experience in 24/7 manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the plant engineering strategy to improve safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, and uptime.
• Assist with capital planning and project execution, including scope, budget, vendor selection, and commissioning.
• Provide technical leadership for sous vide processing systems, cook tanks, chill systems, and related equipment.
• Partner with QA and Food Safety to ensure HACCP, GMP, and GFSI/SQF or BRC requirements are met.
• Drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, standard work, and data-driven problem solving.
• Ensure OSHA, electrical safety, ammonia or refrigeration safety, and environmental regulations are followed.
• Lead engineering, maintenance, reliability, facilities, and automation for a high-volume plant.
• Coach and develop a high-performing technical team; manage budgets and spend.
• Support new product introductions, line extensions, and capacity expansions.
• Establish engineering standards, project management practices, and training programs.

Skills

Plant engineering

Project leadership

Maintenance & reliability

Automation systems

HVAC & refrigeration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

AutoCAD

Bluebeam

Procore

Microsoft Excel

MS Project

Job description

Cuisine Solutions in Sterling, VA seeks an experienced Senior Process Engineer to lead engineering, maintenance, and automation for a sous vide food manufacturing plant. You will drive reliability, safety, and quality across utilities, process systems, and facilities.

Your role collaborates with Operations, Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Supply Chain, Finance, and Leadership to deliver continuous improvements and capital projects that expand capacity and efficiency.