Process Engineering Director jobs in Stockton, CA

Description

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Maintenance & Engineering, the Director of Maintenance and Engineering is responsible for day-to day performance and the strategic direction of the Maintenance, Utilities, Buildings and Engineering departments, providing leadership, talent acquisition and development, operating and capital budgeting/management and continuous improvement. This position will have multi-building oversight at the California Natural Products facilities in Lathrop, CA.  

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and direct engineering, maintenance, utilities and building departments.
• Responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and addressing all plant maintenance issues with Operations Management and working in collaboration to drive improvements across the manufacturing lines.
• Provide maintenance and reliability day to day and strategic leadership with a specific focus on creating proper preventive maintenance programs and implementation 
• Ensure staff work safely and in accordance with all policies, laws, and regulations. This includes ensuring facilities and machineries follow all applicable safety and environmental laws within city, county, state, and federal regulations.
• Establish operational safety policies and procedures to prevent incidents / accidents and ensure consistent compliance with OSHA requirements.
• Coordinate response and actions for emergency situations.
• Recruit talents, develop staff and improve employee engagement and teamwork 
• Ensure maintenance and engineering departments are properly staffed and organized with required skills, talents and motivations corresponding every changing customer’s needs 
• Prepare and manage annual operating and capital budgets in most cost-effective way
• Ensure compliance with internal Food Safety and Quality Policy and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standard. The CNP facility is an SQF facility.
• Provide leadership around engineering projects with the engineering team (and contractors); from design to complete implementation. Guide the specification and selection of manufacturing equipment/utility equipment and engineering contracts based on comparative bids and analysis
• Create and support strategic plans for process and plant improvements to improve OEE, yields and drive down costs
• Optimize documentation systems and processes for maintenance and engineering
• Communicate with partners and clients to identify and implement any necessary equipment or capabilities for new products
• Continuously improve maintenance and engineering policies, procedures, and performance.
• Utilization of our CI tools, which includes Redzone to drive continuous improvement practices with the departments 
• Capability in managing a large and fluid department with a big-picture mentality that can create a vision and mission for the department
• Conducts employee performance reviews based on job descriptions to determine competency, knowledge, and contribution of the maintenance technicians
• Ensure that appropriate professional development activities are provided for personnel
• Set challenging performance standards and manage/develop reporting mechanisms to meet reliability/line efficiency success factors and associated goals. Ensure the highest possible standards of performance are monitored across the Engineering and Maintenance function with collaboration of the other CNP business units
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements

Minimum   Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, related field, or progressive experience
• 7-10 years previous engineering and maintenance management experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment 
• Strong working knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems
• Proven ability to work with process improvement, problem resolution, project management and employee development
• Proficiency using a PC and Microsoft Office Tools (Excel, Word,   Outlook) 
• Excellent mathematical, verbal and analytical skills 
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to speak to a diverse audience spanning from staff to executive levels
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with members of the Department’s staff and other external entities and bodies
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, manage and lead staff in managing maintenance and engineering department.
• Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma training and experience 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in bottling, pasteurization, and/or aseptic processing & packaging is strongly preferred
• Master’s degree in engineering or Business Management
• 3-5 years of experience in CPG and/or FDA-regulated manufacturing industry
• Proficiency using Auto-Cad

Preferred Qualifications:

• Regularly walk, move about, stand, and sit.
• Occasionally squat, bend, kneel, climb, reach overhead, push/pull/lift/carry 50 lbs.

Additional Compensation – Annual Cash Bonus: You will be eligible to participate in the Gehl Foods Employee Bonus Program. For this fiscal year, your annual maximum bonus potential is up to 12% of your annualized base salary. All bonus payments are prorated based on your hire date. Under this Program, bonus payouts are dependent upon the financial performance of the company.

Working Conditions: Frequently exposed to wet and varying temperature conditions between 60-130 degrees Fahrenheit, loud noise, vibration, moving machinery/electrical parts, risk of electrical shock, airborne particles, high/precarious places, toxic/caustic chemicals, allergens including soy, milk and milk by-products and fumes from food processing equipment.

While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the most significant duties of the current position, it is not necessarily exhaustive of all responsibilities, duties, effort, requirements or expectations of this position. Other duties may be assigned as necessary. The company reserves the right to modify the job requirements as circumstances change and the needs of the company so dictate, without editing this job description in its entirety.

Acknowledgments: I am fully capable of completing the essential functions of the job duties listed herein) I certify that I understand that this job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and that I am expected, hereby agree, to perform other job-related tasks properly assigned to me by my supervisor. I understand and agree that the Company has the legal right to revise or change this document in part, or in total as business needs dictate. I understand and fully agree, that this job description does not constitute a written or implied contract for employment, and that my employment relationship with the Company is “at will,” for an unspecified duration, and may be terminated at any time by me or the Company as specified by Section 2922 of the California Labor Code.