Senior Engineering Manager

Land O’Lakes is a $14-billion farmer-owned agriculture and food manufacturing cooperative working to overcome the world's greatest food challenges. We are a globally recognized Fortune 250 company headquartered in Arden Hills, Minn., just outside the Twin Cities, with locations across the US and presence in 60 countries around the world. Join Land O’Lakes, Inc., and help us bring food from farmer to fork. We’re a global, Fortune 250 company and a farmer-owned cooperative. While benefits can vary by location and role, most offer: • Medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D; short- and long-term disability insurance • Retirement savings plan and profit-sharing plan, both with company match • Paid time off and paid holidays, plus paid benefits for maternity and parental leaves Senior Engineering Manager The purpose of this position is to lead a team of engineers and contractors to successfully implement key capital projects that meet business objectives. Provide engineering resources to ensure capital projects are completed on schedule and on budget. Lead assessment of new technologies in Feed manufacturing. Coordinate the design, installation and start-up of plant construction or process equipment projects for Feed Manufacturing operations. Incumbent is responsible for direct involvement in development of the project scope working closely with the Region Director of Manufacturing and Plant Manager, develop project and process design, capital and expense estimates, contractor selection, equipment specifications and purchases, implementation timeline and coordinate implementation plans for the projects. Provide recommended methods and standard operating practices to optimize processes and meet product specifications. Work closely with Process Research to commercialize new products and process innovations. The target location for this role is Land O’Lakes Corporate Headquarters in Arden Hills, MN, however this position can be remote (virtual) and located anywhere in the USA. Responsibilities: Prepare process designs, equipment specifications and capital estimates for process upgrades and modifications to existing systems and expansion projects. Work closely with DOMs and Plant Managers on the capital approval and implementation steps. Lead development of short term and long-term capital plans. Validate expected improvements are obtained from capital investments. Prepare equipment standards for processing equipment. Provide project management working with contractors, equipment vendors and plant personnel to insure on budget and on schedule project implementations. Conduct process evaluations in the forms of process system audits and in-plant testing. Evaluate process variables and provide recommendations for processing and energy efficiency improvements. Implementation of process improvements and validations of improvements. Provide equipment recommendations and methods to optimize processing Conduct process testing and refinement of new and restaged products working closely with Process Research. Prepare written processing requirements and standards for new and revised processes to meet product specifications. Conduct process training seminars with supervisors and operators. Develop training manuals and standard operation procedures. Lead equipment standards development. Develop engineering technical talent base to support plant and process expansion projects, process equipment improvements and plant efficiency projects. Provide engineering support and leadership to management to support key business objectives. Experience and Education: B.S. degree with concentration in Agricultural, Mechanical, Electrical or Food or Feed Process Engineering or related degree program with minimum of 7 years related work experience. Solid working knowledge of cereal grains processing plants and equipment, highly organized; and proficient and knowledgeable in most current grain or food processing systems; highly effective communicator; strong interpersonal skills; experience with processing equipment used in Feed Milling. Solid working knowledge of the Feed, Grain Processing or Cereal Foods Processing Industry; seven years previous successful experience in the development and refinement of process equipment projects and managing construction projects required. Ability to work closely with operators on the plant and processing floor to understand equipment variables and equipment operations. Ability to understand root cause of problems and develop solutions is critical to success. Fact based reasoning and recommendations are essential to optimizing process variables and systems. Visualize process and building revisions and improvements. Ability to lead technical teams and develop technical talent. Highly effective communications is required and ability to modification communications approach to reach operators, supervisors and Plant Managers. Strong interpersonal skills are required to sell and implement improvement projects. Team building skills working with project engineers and contractor and plant management. The target salary for this position is dependent upon experience and is approximately $150,000-170,000. This position will involve 50% to 75% travel and will involve exposure to all shifts to allow training and operations improvements to be refined and fully implemented. Significant time required in feed manufacturing facilities which have typical levels of dust and noise. Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including pre- and post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy. 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Salary : $14 - $150,000