Director of Engineering

High Liner Foods is the leading North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen seafood. Our retail branded products are sold throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico under the High Liner, Fisher Boy, Mirabel, Sea Cuisine and C. Wirthy labels, and are available in most grocery and club stores.

High Liner Foods is proud to be the leading North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen seafood. We are seeking a Director of Engineering to become the newest member of our Engineering Team. The position will be based out of our Portsmouth, NH HQ facility & will require travel to our other locations. You will be responsible for the day to day engineering requirements of a growing manufacturing operation spanning 3 locations on the Eastern Seaboard. This would include monitoring current process and procedures, identifying and implementing improvement plans, developing new processes and assuring compliance with environmental and worker safety.

* Continuous improvement of production processes and major plant facilities (refrigeration, hydraulics, electrical, etc.) for all US Operations * Lead development of, and manage US Company Capital Plan to assure optimization of capital spending is aligned with organization needs. * Shared management with Maintenance of major capital installations including project development, design, writing ERA's, supervising contractors and resolving any problems. * Documenting new modified facilities and processes using Computer Aided Design software (CAD). * Providing technical support on projects reliant to Production, Maintenance and R&D. * Leading the continuous improvement of our production processes. * Working with the Environmental Health & Safety group to engineer out potential hazards to provide a safe working environment for our #1 asset, our employees. * Assuring Food Safety & Environmental Safety.

* You enjoy collaborating with other departments and can relate complex ideas to them in non-technical terms * You are a Technology Champion. You stay current on the latest technologies and can recommend & implement them to improve our manufacturing processes. * You’ve had experience as an Industrial Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Plant Engineer or Facilities Engineer * You have a minimum of 10 years experience in the food industry including experience working in frozen food processing. You’ll get us really excited if you’ve worked with Seafood before. * You know what NH3 is. We have lots of refrigerated cold space and process freezers and we need Engineers to make sure the systems are installed working properly! (Yes HR had to look that up) * You believe in a good education and so do we. We’d like you to have a minimum of a BS in Engineering whether it is Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Chemical (or related).