Sr Manufacturing System Engineer
Lamb Weston

Job Info

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Title: Sr Manufacturing System Engineer

Location: Richland, WA

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

Serves as a product attribute and technical subject matter expert for advanced plant manufacturing systems. Interacts regularly with plant leadership to ensure all systems maintain high levels production consistency and efficiency. Leads efforts to measure, track, and improve system capability versus key processing parameters and finished product specifications. Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement. Minimum 5 years related experience.

Job Description

Job Summary

Serves as a technical expert and subject matter expert in understanding advanced manufacturing systems within each platform. Interacts regularly with plant leadership to ensure all systems are built to maintain high levels of accuracy and efficiency. Leads the effort in measuring, tracking, and improving the system capability versus key processing parameters and finished product specifications. Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement.

Position Responsibilities

Become both System and product subject matter expert for every stakeholder:

• Interface with Key Stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure mutual understanding of system performance and product quality (be in the know).
• Lead the effort in measuring, tracking, and improving system capability versus key processing parameters and finished product specifications.
• Act as the primary point-of-contact for the RQI function for any new product, process, or packaging improvements or start-ups.
• Consult on change management of designated process or system (new product, new package, new system)
• Liaise with RQI to achieve system capability of new product introduction, new packaging, formulation, and line extensions and engineering for technical changes to their process, local QA in driving reduction in consumer complaints

Improve System Performance

• Key technical resource on process ó product interaction. Understand capability of each unit operation to deliver in-specification product. Know system bottlenecks and propose actions to exploit them.
• Create and maintain product material balances including all relevant unit operations to insure optimal production rates, parameters and formulas. Analyze differences between the formulaic (theoretical) material balance and the plant (actual) operation and propose work to minimize differences.

Increase Productivity and Propose Capacity Solutions

• Understand each unit operation's unconstrained rate limits, by product, while still producing acceptable quality product.
• Create and maintain overall System Capability Profiles, by product, using the information learned from each unit operation's unconstrained rate capability study.
• Demonstrate strong troubleshooting skills through the use of continuous improvement techniques. Show thorough understanding of the interactions between machine, materials, methods, environment and people to provide robust operating systems.
• Implement solutions which use existing capital for maximum performance and capacity.
• Create and maintain an overall System Capacity Analysis - a System characterizing tool that classifies production losses into several categories. Propose and execute work to minimize the losses identified.
• Use system modeling to propose cost effective, stepwise future investments.

Capital Investments

• Interface with and assist Project Managers and Plant Engineers on capital projects as a System Subject Matter Expert to the design team. Review proposed capital project work as it impacts System productivity, capacity and cost effectiveness.
• Continually propose Capital Cost Reduction (CCR) projects to close System productivity gaps identified in the Material Balance, Capability Profile, Capacity Analysis or System Modeling tools.

People Development

• Develop and deliver technical training for plant personnel as required. Assist in the development of playbooks and training materials, to ensure solid on-boarding of new employees in theory of operation in their area of responsibility.
• Serve as a technology resource and coach for designated area of expertise.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
  
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
  
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
  
• Paid Time Off
  
• Financial Wellness - Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
  
• Family-Friendly Employee events
  
• Employee Assistance Program services - mental health and other concierge type services
  

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Job Requisition ID: Req-255713

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 11/18/2024

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $98,770.00 - $148,160.00

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law

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