Your Opportunity as Senior Engineer, Projects and Improvements
Location: New Orleans, LA - Chef
Reports to: Plant Engineer
Work Arrangements: 100% on-site
- Typical schedule: Monday – Friday, 7am – 4pm
- Flexibility to work off shift (including nights, weekends, and/or holidays) and flow to the work as needed
- Ability to travel up to 25%
In this role you will:
- Lead and execute engineering projects from concept through start-up, including developing project charters, funding requests, and technical deliverables.
- Develop and implement engineering designs for coffee roasting, grinding, and packaging machinery to improve efficiency, increase capacity, and reduce costs.
- Conduct root cause investigations for system failures (including safety, mechanical, processing, quality); drive team to complete corrective actions.
- Collaborate with vendors to develop equipment specifications, perform equipment testing, and lead commissioning and qualification activities.
- Build consensus and lead project teams by communicating project specifics and business needs with Operations, Quality, and Safety.
- Develop self and others by education, hands-on practice, and mentoring; identify and address capability gaps within the team.
- Maintain site adherence to food safety and product quality standards for project delivery, equipment design, and project construction.
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, Biomedical, or Packaging Engineering)
- 2 years of engineering experience
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data, solve problems, and make effective decisions
- Able to self-direct and take action independently within company boundaries
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Experience coaching and growing capability in other engineers and technicians
- Packaging experience
- Experience implementing change or new technology for a production team
- Experience with construction, food manufacturing or pharmaceuticals
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The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
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What We Do
Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.
