Engineer, Packaging Systems
Lamb Weston

Job Info

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Title: Engineer, Packaging Systems

Location: Kennewick, 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 9,000+ 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

This position provides technical engineering expertise with a focus on case packing, case forming, case closing, and packaging systems used in Lamb Weston. The person in this position will be responsible for documenting, tracking, and directing technical maintenance of these systems. Equipment includes product distribution scales, bagging, casing, palletizing, wrapping. Additionally, a key responsibility is developing and maintaining technical, operational, and service documentation as well as best practices for manufacturing plants. The incumbent will spend a large portion of their time improving asset utilization of company packaging systems.

As a member of the Global Engineering Technical Support team, this person will be charged to work with plant operations, EHSS, Food Protection, Continuous Improvement, engineering teams and OEM vendors, to achieve next level performance and utilization of case packing technology. All this will facilitate Lamb Weston's Journey to Zero.

This position is based out of the Lamb Weston Kennewick, Washington, engineering office. SME (subject matter expert) level training will be provided for the specific systems used in Lamb Weston.

Job Description

• Provide leadership in establishing safety of all our associates to World Class Safety and Zero Incidents as a primary objective.
• Support and provide Leadership in Quality and Food Safety to achieve goals of Zero Foreign Material.
• Provide subject matter expertise for bagging, casing, palletizing, and wrapping equipment to actively improve asset utilization through elimination of unplanned mechanical downtime.
• Support the team in providing project and technical design when required.
• Demonstrate professional maturity in decision making and effective communication with various departments and managers to ensure project team resources are efficiently utilized.
• Prepare and maintain meeting agendas and minutes.
• Assist and Maintain Technical documentation, best practices, drawings, project documents.
• Leads training and assembly of Lamb Weston technologies when needed.
• Participates in project meetings.
• Provides up-to-date copies of drawings and specifications to contractors, project team, and plant personnel.
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control: Assists in verifying that all materials installed comply with Lamb Weston approved submittals, and Standards.
• Participates in project FAT/SAT process.
• Monitors packaging system performance, especially case packing and closing systems, to identify needed improvements and act to implement them.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years of manufacturing experience; food manufacturing experience preferred.
• B.S. Engineering degree is required.
• Knowledge of case forming, case packing, and case closing systems is preferable.
• Packaging equipment design and operation experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated written, verbal, and interpersonal and communication skills.
• Leadership skills to work as a peer and advisor to other departments.
• Ability to rotate shifts and work weekends and holidays when required.
• Must be detail orientated, possess excellent technical and analytical skills, and be a proven self-starter.
• Demonstrated capability to work on teams in a leadership or support role.
• Excellent problem solving, organizational skills, and report writing.

• Excellent knowledge of food manufacturing processes, regulations, and requirements is beneficial.
• Knowledge of LW specific operations processes and programs is a benefit.
• Experience and knowledge of industrial plant construction, codes, practices, and engineering requirements is also of benefit.

• Proficient using Microsoft office suite, including MS Project and other computer applications including AutoCAD systems, and SAP.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time, including periodic international travel. Must have a passport or the ability to get a passport in a timely fashion.

Physical Requirements

(Incumbent must have the ability to effectively perform all the following physical demands without assistance)

• Sitting for up to 8 hours a day
• Ability to lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• Walking on various manufacturing facility surfaces
• Occasionally required to use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, taste, and smell.
• Climbing up ladders and stairs.
• Exposed to plant noises and vibrations.
• Temperature changes from hot to cold depending on work area.
• Ability to safely operate a Company vehicle.

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-234486

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 05/21/2024

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: $79,240.00 - $118,860.00

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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