Process Engineer

Position Title: Process Engineer

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Rice Lake

Requisition ID: 30761

About McCain

McCain Foods is proud to be a family and values-driven company. Our values are integral to our culture, helping to shape how we operate, how we work together and the choices we make. They are a big part of what makes us unique. McCain Foods opened their first production facility in their hometown of Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. McCain Foods quickly established itself within the Canadian marketplace and then began a journey to become the world's largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and potato specialties.

McCain products can be found in thousands of restaurants and supermarket freezers around the world. In addition to fries, McCain also produces other foods, including appetizers, oven meals, vegetables and juice for both the retail and foodservice industries.

Why You Should Join Our Rice Lake Team

McCain Food’s facility in Rice Lake, WI is a state-of-the-art food processing plant, employing approximately 275 employees. This site specializes in the production of onion rings. Fun Fact: The Red Robin tower of rings is made righthere in Rice Lake, WI!

McCain offers full benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance. (NO waiting period!)

In Addition, We Offer Other Benefits Including

• 20 Paid time off days
• 401k – up to 6% matching
• Health Spending Account/ HRA & Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption & Infertility Assistance, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Education Reimbursement Assistance
• Apprenticeship, Internship, & Coop support and opportunities
  
  

Sustainability and Planet Friendly Practi ces are at the heart of McCain:

We’ve embarked upon a journey to create planet-friendly food. We are committed to investing in resource- efficient operations in factories and farms.

We are moving to 100% renewable energy by 2030.

Donating 200 million meals to food banks and NGO worldwide by 2025.

Implementing regenerative agricultural practices across 100% of our potato acreage by 2030.

Job Summary

Ensures timely project completion and leadership of continuous improvement achievement within the manufacturing plant. Must interact with internal and external customers as required to meet customers’ needs, interpret the results and convey the findings to management. Accountable for the overall quality and recovery components of manufacturing, which is accomplished by auditing equipment performances in the proper methods of processing. Serves as a change agent and facilitator of the MDI processes. Identifies key result areas and assists in the development and facilitation of MDI events.

Is accountable to perform or facilitate testing on new or existing equipment and processes.

Job Functions

Essential Functions:

• Leads or supports project activities in the following areas:
• OEE improvement through Facility (Availability/Quality/Performance)
• Waste reduction through out the facility
• Cost improvement
• Improving utilization of personnel, material, and utilities
• Process improvements Including Continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, and efficiency throughout Facility.
• New technology development
• Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation of new equipment
• Reviews production schedules, engineering specifications, orders, and related information to help guide optimization of product flow
• Develop, implement, and roll out VSM (Value stream mapping), capacity planning, and communicate capital needs to achieve process goals as determined with Management team.
• Analyzes and develop statistical data and product specifications to determine standards and establishes quality and reliability objectives of finished product.
• Supervise process control team
• Provide the leadership and initiative to ensure the successful implementation of MDI. Proactively manage change in a way to help ensure continuous improvement success.
• Learn and develop the key skills required to implement all DMS across the plant. Help create ownership and shared results from process improvements.
• Lead, manage, and coordinate activities such as FIT events, training/education in various continuous improvement processes, etc. Be a teacher and facilitator of continuous improvement.
• Develop and utilize tools that will maximize the effectiveness of MDI and sustain them over time. This includes but is not limited to OSI PI, Defect Logs, Centerlines, CID Routes and other related continuous improvement tools.
• Track and report KEY milestones and metrics related to plant MDI goals.
• Ensure processes and practices are in place to identify and share best practices with the plant and across the organization.
• Provide a professional work environment with internal and external customers. Must be able to effectively manage up, down, and across the organization and successfully build collaborative relations across the supply chain.
• Ability to work independently and within teams on abstract projects with minimal supervision.
  

Other Job Duties

• Perform other related duties as assigned.
  
  

Job Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education and Experience
• Minimum: Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering, Engineering, Operations Management, Food Science or equivalent, plus two years of continuous improvement experience.
• Preferred: Minimum plus five (5) years of proven Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma experience.
• Skill and Knowledge
• The ability to facilitate the collaborative examination of the possible outcomes, focusing on safety, quality and productivity.
• The ability to quickly grasp technical and abstract concepts.
• To be able to consistently challenge continuous improvement teams to achieve superior results
• Training is an integral part of this position. The candidate must have a background or proven experience in training.
• Computer literacy is a must due to the nature of equipment operation and reporting.
• Knowledge of statistical concepts is required.
• Leadership qualities will be required because the candidate will be directing the plant management group on “best practices” in the operation of plant equipment.
• Moderate to advanced knowledge of processing equipment, processing methods, manufacturing philosophies, and basic manufacturing SOPs.
• Work with the teams to set and achieve stretch goals for the event; encourage calculated risks (based on facts/data, not ‘gut’)
• Be an effective listener; able to ‘read’ the cues of his/her audience and adapt approach/message; encourage open communication and sharing of ideas among the team members, ensuring that everyone has a voice; must be capable of selling ideas (both company and personal).
• Assemble teams with the right balance and expertise; foster growth of emerging leaders by identifying and coaching team leaders for events.
• Help the teams to analyze situations and break problems down into manageable parts; consider multiple solutions to a given problem; act only on facts/data.
  
  

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Job Family: Engineering & Technical

Division: NA Appetizer Manufacturing

Department: Manufacturing Rice Lake

Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Rice Lake

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.