Technical Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Manage capital expenditures, forecasts, and project financial performance to ensure delivery against approved business cases and ROI targets. 

• Develop and maintain a balanced annual capital plan for assigned manufacturing site(s) in partnership with maintenance, safety, quality, R&D, operations, and plant leadership. 

• Establish, execute, and deliver savings from automation, productivity, capacity, reliability, safety, and continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Lead medium to large capital investment projects from feasibility, scope development, and funding approval through engineering design, installation, commissioning, start-up, and handover. 

• Prepare project scope, design basis, cost estimates, schedules, business case support, option analyses, RFQs, purchase recommendations, and capital funding packages. 

• Coordinate internal stakeholders, external engineering partners, vendors, contractors, construction resources, and plant teams to ensure safe and effective project execution. 

• Track and communicate project status, risks, decisions, cost, schedule, quality, deliverables, and post-start-up KPIs to leadership and stakeholders. 

• Anticipate potential project issues and develop mitigation plans, contingency plans, and clear requests for support when barriers arise. 

• Support new business needs with agility, including product, process, equipment, capacity, packaging, automation, and infrastructure changes. 

• Develop, improve, and standardize engineering work processes, project governance, change management, readiness tools, and manufacturing deliverable tracking. 

• Ensure projects comply with applicable food safety, quality, occupational health and safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements, including HACCP, GMP, SQF, CFIA or equivalent country requirements, and local, state/provincial, and federal laws. 

• Travel across North America to manufacturing sites, vendor locations, and project sites may be required (20%). 

Education/Certifications and Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline required. 

• 5 to 10 years of experience executing capital projects or engineering initiatives within a manufacturing environment 

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple million dollars projects 

• Desired experience in food manufacturing, food processing technology, packaging, automation, controls, or frozen/refrigerated manufacturing environments. 

• Experience with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, engineering work processes, or capital project management preferred. 

• Ability to communicate fluently in English, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening required. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Strong project management capability with the ability to balance safety, quality, cost, schedule, scope, and business results. 

• Working knowledge of capital planning, purchasing processes, cost estimating, vendor management, construction coordination, and equipment installation. 

• Ability to develop design basis documents, RFQs, option analyses, project deliverables, manufacturing readiness tools, and start-up plans. 

• Understanding of manufacturing equipment, utilities, process systems, automation, controls, and productivity improvement methods. 

• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence, align, and hold stakeholders accountable without direct authority. 

• Creative, innovative, detail-oriented, and able to improve or streamline work processes. 

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project 

• Basic drawing skills in AutoCAD with ability to conceptualize minor changes as necessary into current facility layouts 

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a matrixed, multi-site environment

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

• Supervise Vendors, Contractors and Plant Personnel through project installation 

Working Conditions and Physical Effort: 

• Work is performed in both office and food manufacturing environments. 

• Hours may vary according to project needs; extended hours, off-shift support, and weekend work may be required during installations, shutdowns, commissioning, and start-ups. 

• Manufacturing environments may include exposure to food ingredients and finished goods such as flour, starch, meat, poultry, seafood, dairy, and other allergens or food products. 

• Role may require work in refrigerated, frozen, wet, humid, dusty, or noisy environments and around mechanical, electrical, chemical, and construction-related hazards. 

• Must follow site safety, sanitation, personal protective equipment, and food safety requirements while in production facilities. 

Expectations: 

• Will demonstrate, promote, and exemplify the Company's Core Values.