Sr. Project Engineer - GFLI - Engineering
Lithonia, GA 30058 - Griffith Foods Manufacturing Facility, 6601 Griffith Way, Lithonia, Georgia, United States of America Req #3554
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products. We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world. Our products include seasoning blends, dry mixes, coating systems, dough blends, crumbs, flavors, sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers. While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world's best-known companies.
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Key Roles & Responsibilities:
Project Management
- Responsible for the management, planning through execution, of the overall CAPEX process and project outcomes of the plant team. This includes overall control of expenditures within unit & specific project budget. Responsible for capital cash flow forecasting and spending.
- Coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering projects within the assigned facility (or facilities).
- Exercises functional authority over personnel that work on Capital projects, such as Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, and outside contractors; this includes coordinating and negotiating project staffing requirements.
- Provides integral communication with the broader team to enable planning, troubleshooting, and execution of key initiatives. This includes the preparation and presentation of plans to project stakeholders / Steering Committee depending on the size of each capital initiative.
- Carries out process improvement initiatives through Capital Projects. Coordinates the launch of manufacturing upgrades including establishing goals, training team members, and evaluating results, as well as being responsible for project integration into the plant operation.
Strategic Planning Support
- Prepares and maintains detailed layouts of buildings and equipment, in support of the development of Master Plans for the assigned site(s). Such Master Plans shall be updated at least once a year.
- Maintains interface with Business Unit and Supply Chain Leadership to provide Capital Plan updates and ensures customer needs are met.
- Supports standards development/application. Support development/application of ways of working.
Early Management and Vertical Startup Up expertise
- This position is the subject matter expert for Project Management Principles and Early Management and VSU within the assigned site and incorporates its concepts to each initiative. As such, this position owns the VSU roadmap for each project as necessary.
- Responsible for utilization of Project Management Principles.
- Responsible for utilization of Early Management Principles.
- Additionally, this position is the subject matter expert for Maintenance Prevention, Design FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis), TT&T (Technology Transfer and Training), FAT (Factory Acceptance Testing), SAT (Site Acceptance Testing) and CQV (Commissioning, Qualification and Verification) methodologies.
- This position assigns and oversees project personnel over each specific phases of the VSU cycle of a project, documenting all aspects of project execution within the VSU framework, such as project deliverable definition, design lock (Integrated Design Brief & Scope) document elaboration, FAT, SAT and CQV checklists elaboration and execution, etc.
Other
Participates in special projects, other duties or tasks that may be assigned as required.
Job Requirements & Qualifications:
Minimum Education:
University degree in Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or related fields like Mechatronic Engineering is required.
Preferred Education:
University degree in Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or related fields
Minimum Experience:
2 years hands on Engineering Project Management and Execution Experience required
Preferred Experience:
5 years hands on Engineering Project Management and Execution Experience required
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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Griffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. Griffith Foods does not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of the following actual or perceived characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic or information, AIDS or HIV status, order of protection status, marital status, military or veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspect of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, participation in benefit programs, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
In carrying out our commitment to equal employment opportunity, Griffith Foods will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship, safety, and/or health risk. Applicants and employees requiring reasonable accommodations must notify Human Resources.
Other details
- Job Family Engineering
- Job Function Operations
- Pay Type Salary
- Travel Required Yes
- Travel % 10
- Job Start Date Saturday, March 1, 2025