Manufacturing Process Systems Engineer

COMPANY OVERVIEW We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.​ 
 JOB OVERVIEW The Manufacturing Systems Engineer role provides technical leadership and serves as a system and product specialist. They are responsible for building the team’s packaging and processing technical skills through a hands-on approach. They are accountable for the operational foundation systems across the platform to secure basic conditions and drive out losses. The Systems Engineer plays a critical role in continuously improving by optimizing system performance and product quality while driving strategic productivity and capacity solutions for the platform and ultimately the business. The primary focus will be on daily troubleshooting, problem solving, and on-the-floor activities to build confidence, capability, and credibility with the theory of operations, 4M relationships, and our product portfolios. It involves significant floor time to understand manufacturing processes, coupled with development within the Systems Engineering team. As progress is made to grow equipment and technical knowledge, overall capability will improve to identify and execute solutions for performance improvements and loss elimination. To learn more about our Hannibal plant and the surrounding area, click here ! KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Safety Lead Food and Human Safety through Safety 2.0 leadership principles and standards. Foster a culture that reduces risk to our people and communities by increasing capability to identify and control critical risk. Specifically, responsible as the Control of Hazardous Energy (CoHE) Platform Owner for ensuring safe system designs, managing procedure changes, partnering with site owner for reviews, and coaching best practices, while reinforcing accountability for execution and adherence at the operational level.   Cultivate Food Safety Culture is committed to manufacturing safe food that is compliant with policy and regulatory requirements. Capability Building Troubleshoot, problem solve and facilitate on-the-floor activities to build team member confidence, and capability of theory of operation and Operational Foundational Systems (CIL, CL, DH). Communicate and engage effectively with teams on the manufacturing floor. Process Leadership and Ownership Driving System Utilization (DSU): Responsible for building necessary skills around the development of Loss Tree and glidepaths for the line / system. Execute loss elimination tasks to improve system and equipment reliability through use of continuous improvement processes and problem solving. Execute HMM initiatives. Daily Direction Setting (DDS) and Operations Foundational Systems: Accountable for the operations foundational systems across the platform to secure basic conditions and drive out losses (Clean-Inspect-Lubricate CIL, Centerlines CL, and Theory of Operation TOO). Vertical Start-Up (VSU): Provide Start-up support to the platform team to drive execution and improvements. Know your Operation, Data and Technology: Gain exposure through a physical presence on the manufacturing floor to the 4M's (machine, materials, methods, human) to grow skills and understanding of interdependency of inputs. Gain exposure to data and information systems to identify and drive decision making (performance metrics, financial information, data historian, maintenance management system). Learn material balances and unit operation capability on your system(s) to ensure optimal production rates, parameters, and formulas. Develop through connections and learning from operators,