Project Engineer - Food Manufacturing

Job Title: Project Engineer - Food Manufacturing

Location: Whippany NJ 07981

Duration: 03 Months

Background in Engineering (Chemical/Mechanical) required.

Minimum 10 years of experience in project engineer - mechanical equipment installation.

Shift: 7:30AM - 4:30PM

Steel toed shoes required.

Work schedule:

onsite role based in Whippany, NJ.

What you will bring

• A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
• Deploy mechanical and infrastructure capital projects
• Leading project teams and influencing cross-functional teams
• Support operations to ensure successful R&D trials
• Planning and delivering on multiple priorities
• Identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
• Understanding equipment design to support manufacturing processes
• Using technical data to influence stakeholders
• Coaching and mentoring others in a process community
• Being a constant champion for the consumer

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Chemical are preferred), Engineering related field.

Job specific requirements:

• 5 years of manufacturing, R&D, operations related role.
• Proficiency in working with
• AutoCad and/or SolidWorks
• Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, Power Point, Project
• Open to learning budget software management tools: SAP, Coupa, Tungsten
• Proficient troubleshooting skills
• Basic understanding and/or open to learn about motors, VFD’s, electrical panels, etc.
• Ability to read and understand schematics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and function effectively in a highly demanding environment.
• Ability to interact effectively with outside vendors, production operators, team leads, and the maintenance trades.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Strong technical background and rigor to design unique engineering solutions.
• Champion culture of safety, sanitation, and operations in all engineering designs.
• Methodological approach to creating documents that fit for purpose (SOP, OPL)
• Agile mindset to simply operations utilizing tools from IL6S (5S, Process Mapping, CTQ, CTP, etc.)