Operations Engineering Manager
Chobani
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Twin Falls • Idaho • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $107,000 - $161,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Provide strategic leadership for all engineering functions, ensuring alignment with corporate and plant objectives for reliability, performance, and cost optimization
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team, including Senior Engineers and technical staff
- Own overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) for the assigned platform and drive performance improvement
- Lead root cause analysis and implement sustainable corrective actions for significant downtime events
- Identify, justify, and execute high-value capital projects, including ROI analysis, planning, execution, and post-project evaluation
- Partner with Quality and Food Safety to ensure equipment designs and modifications comply with FDA and USDA requirements
- Standardize machine centerlines, preventive maintenance schedules, and overhaul plans to reduce variability and maximize consistency across production lines
- Lead site-wide initiatives in equipment reliability, Lean manufacturing, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Develop and maintain long-term asset health plans for fillers and packaging systems
- Oversee major filler rebuilds, packaging equipment overhauls, and end-of-line modernization projects to reduce downtime and lifecycle costs
- Direct FAT, commissioning, and qualification for new filler and packaging equipment installations, ensuring smooth transition to operations and maintenance
- Advance changeover reduction (SMED) initiatives to increase line availability, flexibility, and throughput
- Utilize data-driven performance monitoring to identify early warnings and drive predictive maintenance for fillers and packaging assets
- Collaborate with operations, maintenance, automation, and corporate engineering to deliver integrated, sustainable solutions that enhance plant efficiency
- Evaluate and deploy advanced automation and digital technologies to future-proof operations
- Ensure full adherence to regulatory requirements, corporate standards, and industry best practices
Requirements
- BS in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering; MS or PE preferred
- 6+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing engineering, including leadership roles
- Proven ability to manage engineering teams and large-scale projects
- Expertise in Lean, Six Sigma, and reliability engineering principles
- Strong business acumen with experience in cost modeling and strategic planning
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Willingness to support 24/7 operations and respond to critical production issues as needed
- Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for coaching and developing engineering talent
- Ability to travel between plant sites and vendors as required (Minimal Travel 5% and above)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Disability insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts
- Tuition reimbursement
- 401k match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay
- Fertility and childcare assistance
- 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after six months of continuous employment
- Employee assistance program
- Fitness discounts
- Wellness reimbursement
- On-site gym access (certain locations)
- Monthly wellness newsletter
- 120 hours of paid time off
- 11 holidays
- Paid volunteer time off
- Military service leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
mechanical engineeringindustrial engineeringmanufacturing engineeringLean manufacturingSix Sigmareliability engineeringroot cause analysisdata-driven performance monitoringpredictive maintenancecapital project management
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationstakeholder managementstrategic planningbusiness acumencontinuous improvement mindsetteam managementproblem-solvingadaptability
Certifications
BS in Mechanical EngineeringBS in Industrial EngineeringBS in Manufacturing EngineeringMS in Engineering (preferred)Professional Engineer (PE) (preferred)