Your Opportunity as a Senior Engineer, Site Savings Leader
Join the team behind one of America’s fastest-growing and most-loved brands—Uncrustables®—at our manufacturing facility in Scottsville, KY. In this role, you will help drive the site's continuous improvement and cost savings strategy by identifying opportunities, developing high-impact projects, and coaching others through successful project execution. You'll work closely with Operations, Engineering, Finance, and Site Leadership to turn operational losses into sustainable business results while building project leadership capability across the site.
Location: Scottsville, KY
Work Arrangements: 100% On-Site
- Willingness to work extended hours and flow to the work as needed
- Flexibility to support off-shift and weekend activities when required
In this role you will:
- Lead the site's savings process by partnering with department teams to identify losses, quantify opportunities, and develop a prioritized pipeline of improvement projects.
- Facilitate loss analysis activities and use data-driven insights to identify opportunities that improve productivity, reduce waste, and deliver measurable cost savings.
- Coach and develop Process Engineers, Area Leaders, and project owners on loss analysis, project development, business case creation, milestone planning, and execution discipline.
- Develop and support project charters, business cases, funding requests, KPI plans, and savings analyses for approved initiatives.
- Lead or support high-impact savings and transformation projects from concept through implementation and sustainment, providing bi-monthly updates to our Transformation office.
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Finance, and Site Leadership to prioritize projects and align resources against business objectives.
- Provide technical and project management coaching to initiative owners, helping ensure projects remain on track and savings opportunities are realized.
- Monitor project progress, communicate risks and watchouts, and drive resolution of technical and operational barriers.
- Maintain accurate project milestones, status updates, and savings results within WAVE and other applicable business systems.
- Apply continuous improvement and problem-solving methodologies, including loss analysis, root cause analysis, process mapping, and structured improvement tools.
- Support site master planning efforts by providing data, recommendations, and project prioritization insights to site leadership.
- Ensure all projects comply with safety, quality, food safety, and change management requirements while delivering sustainable results.
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree; Engineering or related technical discipline preferred
- 2+ years of engineering, manufacturing, continuous improvement, or project leadership experience (food manufacturing preferred)
- Strong project management, and problem-solving skills
- Experience analyzing data and driving process improvements
- Strong communication, organization and teamwork skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other business software
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Food, beverage, or consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturing experience
- Experience with loss analysis, cost savings programs, or operational excellence initiatives
- Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, TPM, FI, or continuous improvement experience
- Experience coaching engineers, supervisors, initiative owners, and/or operational leaders
- Experience developing project charters, business cases, and capital funding requests
- Knowledge of food safety, quality systems, and regulatory compliance
- Familiarity with project tracking and manufacturing systems such as WAVE, Proficy or similar platforms.
- Completion of PE school or equivalent technical development program
- Strong leadership and change management skills
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline
- 2+ years of engineering, manufacturing, continuous improvement, or project leadership experience
- Strong project management and problem-solving skills
- Experience analyzing data and driving process improvements
- Strong communication, organization, and teamwork skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other business software
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Food, beverage, or CPG manufacturing experience
- Experience with loss analysis, cost savings programs, or operational excellence initiatives
- Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, TPM, FI, or continuous improvement experience
- Experience coaching engineers, supervisors, initiative owners, and operational leaders
- Experience developing project charters, business cases, and capital funding requests
- Knowledge of food safety, quality systems, and regulatory compliance
- Familiarity with project tracking and manufacturing systems such as WAVE or Proficy
- Completion of PE school or equivalent technical development program
- Strong leadership and change management skills
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, seasonal compressed schedules, and flexibility options are highlighted across materials. The ability to start with substantial PTO and buy additional time enhances perceived time-off breadth.
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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.
