director engineer Cleveland, OH
Eagle Foods
Full Time
Cleveland, OH
143662 - 105234 USD ANNUAL Today
Job description
Overview:
At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.Responsibilities:
Develop systems, processes and capabilities in our factory leadership teams to enable the delivery of sustained expected performance in the areas of Engineering & Continuous Improvement. Support the development of engineering and operational standards across the Eagle manufacturing platform. Manage through others but also be willing to personally engage in solving the toughest problems or leading the largest projects. Support sourcing and capability assessments of potential co mans in partnership with R&D and procurement. Work with R&D and co-man partners to commission and qualify production in co man facilities.
Essential Functions
Additional Information
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop or kneel, crouch or crawl; taste or smell. The employee must occasional 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 physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.
Job Description Summary
Develop systems, processes and capabilities in our factory leadership teams to enable the delivery of sustained expected performance in the areas of Engineering & Continuous Improvement. Support the development of engineering and operational standards across the Eagle manufacturing platform. Manage through others but also be willing to personally engage in solving the toughest problems or leading the largest projects. Support sourcing and capability assessments of potential co mans in partnership with R&D and procurement. Work with R&D and co-man partners to commission and qualify production in co man facilities.
Essential Functions
Business Acumen/Technical Knowledge:- Experience leading a continuous improvement program including practical, hands on experience with Autonomous Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, DMAIC and process-based Problem Solving
- Experience successfully managing a broad suite of engineering projects, ideally in the food industry, with spend levels up to $10M
- Ability to Work with Others: experience delivering results in collaboration with others and maintaining respectful working relationships with leaders, peers and subordinates
- Ability to Analyze Data and Solve Problems: able to analyze information, develop plans of action in coordination with others and see those actions thru to implementation, be they individual actions or actions assigned to others. Ability to assess if the implementation of actions delivered intended results, and if not adjust the implementation to ensure the delivery of the intended outcome. The ideal candidate can identify not only problems brought to them by others but also find problems others may not know existed and coordinate the activities of others to fix them
- Ability to communicate and make recommendations to upper management
- Ability to think independently and identify a need to act without direction from others in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
- Ability to deal with confidential information
- Ability to manage 3rd party vendors including engineering firms, construction firms and OEM’s.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Manage the annual capital budgeting process with the plants and finance. Monitor project status and spending curves throughout the year. Engage on requests for funding that were not in the budget and participate in trade off discussions as needed.- Provide technical oversite and peer review of plant capital projects.
- Engage with site engineering managers on project management approach and milestone programs (Define/Design/Install/TT&T, Commission – Qualify) to ensure projects are well managed and deliver intended results.
- Develop clear, consistent equipment commissioning protocols for use in Eagle production facilities as new assets are integrated and started up.
- Develop company engineering standards, as needed, for implementation in Eagle factories.
- Identify preferred engineering partners for our sites to use on future projects.
- Lead the development/enhancement and deployment of the company CI program (‘Eagle Performance System’ - EPS).
- Partner with the plant managers, plant HR managers and plant CI leaders to develop consistent approaches, standards and training materials for CI work in our factories in accordance with EPS.
- Partner with the plant managers and site CI managers to develop a CI implementation plan for their factories and engage on its’ delivery.
- Identify when and where external consultants will be leveraged to support EPS implementation. Where external resources will be utilized, develop the plan and contract in support of the external engagement and oversee 3rd party activity
- Partner with IT to identify technology platforms that can support efficient and effective operations (i.e. CMMS, line event data, factory automation, etc.)
- Support R&D and procurement with co man identification and capacity/capability vetting. Where co mans need to install new assets to support production of Eagle items, review plans and cost estimates in support of fair pricing proposals and to confirm feasibility of timelines. Where requested, engage on co man commissioning/qualification.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
Minimum degree and experience required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
- 15+ years of experience ideally in both engineering and operations verticals (at a minimum one of ops manager, CI manager and/or plant manager on the operations side)
- Hands on experience managing CI and engineering programs in a factory environment and driving performance with these programs
- Experience leading continuous improvement projects and initiatives. TPM or Lean Six Sigma experience preferred
- Food manufacturing experience preferred
- Experience creating programs vs. implementing or sustaining programs created by others preferred
Specific competencies required:
- Strong written and oral English language skills.
- Computer skills (MS Office, e-mail)
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation and communication skills
- Leading through influence and collaboration skills
- Project Management skills
Additional Information
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop or kneel, crouch or crawl; taste or smell. The employee must occasional 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 physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
The candidate will be expected to travel to each factory and co man facilities on a regular basis. Travel may be up to 50% of the time.
About Eagle Foods
CEO: Bernard Kreilmann
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: 201 to 500 Employees
Type: Subsidiary or Business Segment
Website: https://eaglefoods.com/
Year Founded: 2016
Eagle Foods
https://eaglefoods.com/
Cleveland, OH
Bernard Kreilmann
Unknown / Non-Applicable
201 to 500 Employees
Subsidiary or Business Segment
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
2016
