Senior Project Engineer/ Project Engineer

Develop, troubleshoot, and optimize key manufacturing processes utilized in APC plants. Deliver cost savings, quality improvements, and robust control of these processes. Be the go-to technical process expert for dryers, membranes, separation, and fractionation of APC products.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, or related field.

Experience:

Bachelor’s degree with 5 or more years of experience in a manufacturing environment with an understanding of process control and development is required, or 5 to 8 years of relevant professional experience.

Working knowledge of food or feed industry, food safety, and GMP is preferred.

Process troubleshooting, designing and implementing new processes.

Experience in Food, Agriculture, Dairy, BioProcessing or other process intensive industries.

Previous Project Management or leadership experience.

Experience with controls (PLC’s, DCS integration) at the very least control narrative documentation.

JOB DUTIES:

• Identify opportunities for quality, cost, and delivery improvement. Develop solutions to mitigate issues and optimize Operations performance metrics.

• Utilize tools such as 8D problem solving, design of experiments, to understand critical input variables that affect process performance and identify viable changes, modifications, and improvements to reduce variation.

• Work with supervisors, managers, and employees to deploy improvement solutions, including procedural changes, line and equipment modifications, and SOP revisions, that are sustainable and consistent throughout all manufacturing facilities.

• Serve as a technical resource for applied statistics, process assessment techniques, cost determination, project planning, and control plan implementation and assist with engineering savings impact calculations.

• Lead plant and supplier trials in cooperation with Operations, Quality and R&D to access new technologies and processes.

• Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing, and inspection.

• Develop a deep technical knowledge of key APC processes such as drying, membranes, separation, and fractionation. Document and share this knowledge in a sustainable way.

• Understand APC processes globally and assist as needed in unifying best in class processes.

• Assist Engineering Manager in special projects as assigned.

• Willingness to travel and spend time in the processes at our manufacturing plants, on both day, weekends, and off-shifts as required.

• Coordinate with R&D personnel for use of the lab and pilot plant as needed.

• Write Capital expense requests, coordinate equipment ordering and supervise project work to ensure approved requests are completed within budget.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Comprehensive knowledge of process development tools and capability to statistically analyze complex manufacturing processes. Ability to design new processes and optimize existing manufacturing processes.

• Strong analytical skills to interpret data to make decisions.

• Above average skills in Microsoft Excel.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Approximately 25% domestic travel.

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LGI’s foundation began in 1916 as the Lauridsen Creamery, selling butter, eggs and poultry to the local community. Although our headquarters in Ankeny, Iowa, is not far from the old creamery in Dedham, Iowa, the company is now worldwide with more than fifty manufacturing and sales locations in twenty countries and sales in more than sixty countries.

Each company under the LGI umbrella is truly independent. They have the ability and the charge to be entrepreneurial, to seek out new markets, to develop new products and applications, and – above all - to discover new ways to add value through fractionation and novel application.

What’s more, because some LGI companies have offices and presence around the world, all LGI companies benefit from their exposure to new markets, new products, new applications and new thinking.