Project And Optimization Engineer
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Overview
Job Description
As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family - take care of your career and your community!
Meijer Rewards
Weekly pay
Scheduling flexibility
Paid parental leave
Paid education assistance
Team member discount
Development programs for advancement and career growth
Please review the job profile below and apply today!
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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