Senior Project Engineer
Land O'Lakes, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $120,880 - $181,320 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead the design, installation and start-up of plant construction or process equipment projects for Feed Supply Chain and Manufacturing operations
- Focus on packaging equipment
- Develop project and process design, capital and expense estimates
- Contractor selection
- Equipment specifications and purchases
- Implementation timeline coordination
- Provide recommended methods and standard operating practices to optimize processes and meet product specifications
- Prepare process designs and equipment specifications
- Track equipment condition and provide long-term projections for repairs/replacements
- Work closely with Feed Engineering Manager and Plant Managers on capital approval and implementation steps
- Ensure expected improvements are obtained from capital investments
- Conduct process evaluations in the forms of process system audits and in-plant testing
- Evaluate process variables and provide recommendations for processing and energy efficiency improvements
- Implementation of process improvements and validations of improvements
Requirements
- Bachelors degree with concentration in Mechanical, Agricultural, Food, Feed Process Engineering or related degree
- 10+ years related work experience
- Technical experience in packaging equipment and robotics is highly preferred
- Technical processing expertise for Feed Operations highly preferred
- Solid working knowledge of mechanical or agricultural engineering and processing plants and equipment
- Highly effective communications is required.
- Strong interpersonal skills are required to sell and implement improvement projects.
- Ability to collaborate closely with operators on the plant and processing floor to understand equipment variables and equipment operations.
- Ability to understand root cause of problems and develop solutions is critical to success.
- Fact based reasoning and recommendations are essential to optimizing process variables and systems.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- PTO
- life & disability insurance
- education assistance
- 401k
- variety of well-being resources
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
process designcapital estimatesequipment specificationspackaging equipmentroboticsenergy efficiency improvementsprocess evaluationsmechanical engineeringagricultural engineeringFeed Operations
Soft skills
effective communicationinterpersonal skillscollaborationproblem-solvingfact-based reasoning
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical EngineeringBachelor's degree in Agricultural EngineeringBachelor's degree in Food EngineeringBachelor's degree in Feed Process Engineering