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Leads and directs engineering projects within Meijer Manufacturing and the project teams involved in all aspects of the analysis, planning, design, development and implementation. Monitors and reports progress and proactively acts to keep projects on track. Practices 200% Safety Accountability – Self and Others.
What You'll be Doing:
- Lead Engineer on capital projects.
- Performs overall project management: defines scope and project budget, schedules management, construction management, start up, conceptual phases, project closeout, cost estimation, system design, equipment sizing and selection, procurement, installation, check-out, including on time, in scope, and in budget manufacturing capital annual budget plans.
- Provides guidance to other project resources to follow industry-accepted best practices in project management.
- Develops strategies and procedures for executing multiple projects at the same time.
- Develops and implements system design standards for manufacturing operations.
- Identifies improvements to existing standards using appropriate technical evaluation and involvement.
- Engineering interface with business leadership team – maintains close working relationship with R&D, quality, manufacturing, merchandising, retail operations, operations leadership and financial operations.
- Provides innovative technical solutions to meet business objectives with emphasis on productivity.
- Collaborates with cross-functional line of business leaders on growth and operational initiatives, ultimately leading teams empowered to execute improvement strategies while identifying tools to improve process capabilities, reduce variability, and eliminate defects.
- Implement improvements to existing standards using appropriate technical evaluation and involvement.
- Utilize Continuous Improvement tools in order to deliver capital projects that meet all budgetary and performance commitments.
- Provides Meijer Manufacturing support for Resource Conservation within the Unit.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline.
- ABET accredited engineering program.
- 5+ years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Prior experience successfully leading multi-million dollar projects is essential.
- Demonstrated skills in executing concurrent capital projects in a manufacturing environment.
- Must have strong project management and multi-tasking ability
- Thorough knowledge of Food Manufacturing Regulatory Requirements (GMP's, Food Safety, etc.)
- Experience in Manufacturing of extended shelf life (ESL) product.
- Experience in Aseptic environment.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
