Manager Plant Engineering (Milton, PA)

ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households. Consumers find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, Snack Pack and many other ConAgra Foods brands in grocery, convenience, mass merchandise and club stores. ConAgra Foods also has a strong business-to-business presence, supplying frozen potato and sweet potato products as well as other vegetable, spice and grain products to a variety of well-known restaurants, foodservice operators and commercial customers. As a Fortune 500 company with more than 24,000 employees across the country and around the world, the opportunities are vast. For more information, please visit us at www.conagrafoodscareers.com.Develops and implements overall plant technical strategies and tactics focused on engineering projects, maintenance and stores improvement programs. Develops vertical start-up processes to ensure implementation of low loss production systems. Provides solutions to technical problems and recommendations for improvements in production activities, and manages the plant technical organization. Develops and leads plant specific engineering and maintenance strategies to achieve key performance goals. Creates and manages all plant technical expense budgets and works with Corporate Engineering to deliver the capital budget. 7 years related experience.Position Responsibilities
Works collaboratively with Plant Leadership, Management Team and Corporate Engineering Director to develop technical strategies that deliver safety, environmental, energy, maintenance, OEE. and ConAgra Performance System (CPS), and OEE programs that improve the Plants performance.
Direct Maintenance staff regarding their roles and responsibilities to meet plant objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service
Execute plant-specific vision and mission to assure continuous improvement and alignment with corporate vision.
Ensure that all manufacturing/facility systems are properly resourced and that all resources are efficiently utilized.
Direct assigned supervisors and hourly maintenance associates in their roles and responsibilities to meet plant objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
Provide technical support for efficient troubleshooting/problem solving activities and maintenance repair to maximize efficiencies and limit downtime.
Continuously apply sound engineering solutions to resolve hindrances to plant efficiencies and to drive continuous improvement.
Provide support in implementing/maintaining preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
Manage engineering department costs within budgetary guidelines.
Manage the buildings and grounds such that good manufacturing practices (GMP) are adhered to and a professional appearance is maintained.
Perform follow-up analysis to identify and resolve recurring operational issues.
Schedule mandatory inspections and coordinate certifications with appropriate authorities.
Ensure environmental compliance.
Drive employee engagement, training, and development to maximize manufacturing, quality, safety, and productivity goal attainment.
Effectively communicate results and action plans to appropriate employees and managers.
Collaborate directly with human resources to insure employee issues or concerns are correctly addressed and resolved.
Direct Engineering staff regarding their roles and responsibilities to meet plant objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
Collaborate with finance to create and execute a maintenance and capital budget to insure that financial allocations and obligations are set, administered and met.
Implementation of the capital program.
Initiate cost savings measures.
Develop long term (3 year) capital plan.
Ensure all plant engineering operations are conducted in a safe and controlled environment.
Ensure all quality and regulatory standards, specifications and policies are met or exceeded.Position Qualifications
7-10 Years engineering management experiences in a manufacturing environment
3-5 Years Supervisory//Maintenance / Project Management experience
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
Strong computer application skills, including the utilization of network and PC business application software, CAD
Strong mathematical and statistical skills
Basic financial skills and understanding
Food industry and experience in a union environment preferred
Experience in a TPM environment preferred
Key Leadership Competencies in addition to Ethics/Values and Integrity/Trust, Action Oriented, Decision Quality, Priority Setting, Timely Decision Making, Time Management and Innovation Management.
Works collaboratively with Plant Leadership, Management Team and Corporate Engineering Director to develop technical strategies that deliver safety, environmental, energy, maintenance, OEE. and ConAgra Performance System (CPS), and OEE programs that improve the Plants performance.
Direct Maintenance staff regarding their roles and responsibilities to meet plant objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service
Execute plant-specific vision and mission to assure continuous improvement and alignment with corporate vision.
Ensure that all manufacturing/facility systems are properly resourced and that all resources are efficiently utilized.
Direct assigned supervisors and hourly maintenance associates in their roles and responsibilities to meet plant objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
Provide technical support for efficient troubleshooting/problem solving activities and maintenance repair to maximize efficiencies and limit downtime.
Continuously apply sound engineering solutions to resolve hindrances to plant efficiencies and to drive continuous improvement.
Provide support in implementing/maintaining preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
Manage engineering department costs within budgetary guidelines.
Manage the buildings and grounds such that good manufacturing practices (GMP) are adhered to and a professional appearance is maintained.
Perform follow-up analysis to identify and resolve recurring operational issues.
Schedule mandatory inspections and coordinate certifications with appropriate authorities.
Ensure environmental compliance.
Drive employee engagement, training, and development to maximize manufacturing, quality, safety, and productivity goal attainment.
Effectively communicate results and action plans to appropriate employees and managers.
Collaborate directly with human resources to insure employee issues or concerns are correctly addressed and resolved.
Direct Engineering staff regarding their roles and responsibilities to meet plant objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
Collaborate with finance to create and execute a maintenance and capital budget to insure that financial allocations and obligations are set, administered and met.
Implementation of the capital program.
Initiate cost savings measures.
Develop long term (3 year) capital plan.
Ensure all plant engineering operations are conducted in a safe and controlled environment.
Ensure all quality and regulatory standards, specifications and policies are met or exceeded.
7-10 Years engineering management experiences in a manufacturing environment
3-5 Years Supervisory//Maintenance / Project Management experience
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
Strong computer application skills, including the utilization of network and PC business application software, CAD
Strong mathematical and statistical skills
Basic financial skills and understanding
Food industry and experience in a union environment preferred
Experience in a TPM environment preferred
Key Leadership Competencies in addition to Ethics/Values and