Manager Plant Engineering
Lamb Weston

Title: Manager Plant Engineering

Location: Boardman, OR

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 10,000+ 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

Develops and leads implementation of overall plant technical strategies and tactics focused on capital projects, R&M, and reliability focused improvement programs. Leads the Early Management (EM) Pillar to ensure implementation of vertical startup and loss elimination & prevention systems. Provides technical solution support to all departments for improvements with a One Operations Mindset. Partners with peer leadership staff on all plant losses to improve safety, food safety, compliance, and reliability. Accountable for plant capital and R&M financials along with LW Global Engineering collaboration & support for strategic capital improvements for the plant site.

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and execute 5-year capital plan that addresses strategic plant improvements in areas such as safety, quality, cost, sustainability, infrastructure, and regulatory compliance
• Directly lead and mentor Plant Engineering team in best practices related to design engineering and project management
• Lead the EM Pillar Team in developing VSU (Vertical Start-up) and EWP (Engineering Work Practices) capabilities
• Provide oversight and guidance to maintenance leadership to ensure safety, reliability, and cost metrics are achieved
• Collaborate with Plant Leadership teams to achieve plant strategic and annual goals (Journey Map process) through collaborative development of KPIs, team member roles & responsibilities, and departmental & personal accountabilities consistent with Lamb Weston principles and core values
• Fostering a team-based problem-solving methodology with standardized tools and processes
• Drive business literacy through education of key business issues and concepts
• Collaborate & partner with Lamb Weston Global Engineering resources to support strategic projects and workstreams including, but not limited to safety & food safety improvements, capital program & project development & execution, strategic asset utilization, and Associate Engineering development
• Assist Plant in delivering financial objectives
• Support regulatory and customer compliance including but not limited to audits as necessary
• Support the Plant reliability through project and technical support
• Demonstrate servant leadership principles in all aspects of the role and encourage a culture of collaboration between all departments and team members
• Work closely with Plant leadership to align strategic vision and prioritize workstreams to ensure continuity in directives between all departments, fostering a One Operations Mindset

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally 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 employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. 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. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience

• Engineering Degree required
• 5 years of experience in Food Manufacturing; 3 years of industrial maintenance experience to include exposure/awareness with mechanical, electrical, and ammonia refrigeration preferred
• Leadership skills to work as a peer and advisor to other departments
• Excellent communication, presentation, and computer application skills
• Key Leadership Competencies: Integrity, Trust, Ethics, Servant Leadership, Drive for Results, Building Effective Teams, Managing Vision and Purpose
• Ability to work off-shifts, weekends, and holidays when required

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-256239

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 01/21/2025

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: $123,900.00 - $185,830.00

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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