Manager Plant Engineering

Conagra Brands

(Twin Falls, Idaho)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Conagra Brands
Conagra Brands is a leader among top brands in North America, and is committed to providing great food today’s consumers want.
Summary
This position leads, develops and maintains technical strategies and tactics focused on reliability, technical improvement, engineered solutions, inventory improvement programs and regulatory compliance. The Engineering Manager leads efforts to ensure reliability and sustainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, and controls. The primary focus is creating an effective and value-added change process, which improves the reliability, engineered solutions, technical performance, and life of assets within a high quality food manufacturing environment. This role will provide leadership and direction to the plant engineering and maintenance departments with reduction of unplanned repairs, engineering improvement processes, and malfunction losses of equipment in manufacturing operations. This position will focus on all causes of failure and ensures improvement of useful life on assets and resources while coordinating daily with operations personnel. The Engineering Manager champions and leads equipment functionality improvement initiatives (technical and corrective) to assure maximum customer service to daily operations. The Engineering Manager’s primary customers are facility department heads with whom he/she will form highly functional partnerships to assure maximum facility output is achieved and sustained.
Responsibilities
- This position is responsible for developing, implementing and leading technical improvement and mechanical reliability strategies that reduce and eliminate unplanned stops/breakdowns while concurrently lengthening asset life. - The Engineering Manager collaborates with department heads, forming highly functional partnerships to assure all business needs are met; operations are continually improving, and maximum facility output is safely achieved and sustained. - This position leads/influences all aspects of reliability and technical improvement including: design, engineered solutions, predictive maintenance, FMEA processes, breakdown analyses, RCA, autonomous maintenance systems, early management processes, oversight of project installation(s), training, and vertical start up assistance. - The qualified candidate will possess both the skills to develop processes to extend asset life/reliability and also identify metrics to ensure that improvements are sustained. - He/She will have leadership capabilities and demonstrate leadership in implementing/maintaining technical solutions as well as preventative and predictive maintenance programs. This work will align with plant-specific continuous improvement goals as well as platform business objectives and visions. - Other duties include: advising leadership on throughput opportunities, maintaining a world class safety culture through leadership and work stream inclusion, supporting continuous improvement ambitions, as well as developing and executing capital projects. - The selected candidate will work closely with the plant Project Engineering team, Plant Manager and/or Manufacturing Manager, Maintenance Manager as well as other plant staff and production/maintenance teams.
Ideal Candidate
- 4 yr. degree in Engineering/Project management or related field –or equivalent professional experience. - 2 - 4 yrs. production processing, maintenance, engineering or supervisory experience. - Strong PC skills, to include windows, word, excel and autocad. - SAP ALM experience preferred. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Excellent problem solving and organizational skills. - Excellent interpersonal skills.

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