Electrical and Automation Engineer

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream

14h•Onsite

About The Position

The Electrical and Automation Engineer is responsible for ensuring reliable, efficient, and safe operation of all electrical and control systems across the factory facility. This role leads automation initiatives, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement projects to optimize production performance, product quality, and energy efficiency.

Requirements

Must consistently showcase the desired behaviors that represent our Core Values.
Stay committed to responsibilities from start to finish.
Make sound decisions and get into the right level of detail.
Apply resources to initiatives that add growth, improve efficiencies, or reduce waste.
Choose transparency over convenience, even if it means difficult conversations.
Set clear roles and responsibilities, enabling everyone to exercise appropriate initiative and judgment.
Speak up when you see something that does not align to our values and policies.
Strive to continuously improve and innovate to exceed expectations.
Value feedback from others and encourage open dialogue to understand how we can improve.
Learn from both successes and failures.
Ensure decisions are based on what’s best for the whole business.
Practice inclusion by seeking diverse perspectives.
Treat everyone with fairness and respect.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future.

Nice To Haves

Allen-Bradley, Siemens, or similar PLCs
TPM, Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma

Responsibilities

Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on electrical systems, motors, drives, and control panels.
Diagnose and repair electrical faults, power distribution, PLCs, and instrumentation systems.
Maintain and update electrical drawings, schematics, and documentation.
Ensure compliance with electrical codes, safety standards, and food manufacturing regulations.
Program, modify, and troubleshoot PLCs (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, or similar), HMIs, and SCADA systems.
Support automation of production lines such as mix plant, freezer, filler, and packaging systems.
Develop and implement control logic to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and ensure consistent product quality.
Collaborate with process engineers and operators to resolve automation issues and implement process improvements.
Lead or support electrical and automation projects, including upgrades, new line installations, and equipment integration.
Work with vendors and contractors to specify, design, and commission automation solutions.
Participate in continuous improvement and reliability programs (TPM, Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma).
Optimize energy usage and sustainability performance through automation and system upgrades.
Ensure adherence to food safety (HACCP, GMP) and occupational safety regulations (OSHA, NFPA).
Conduct risk assessments, lockout/tagout (LOTO) audits, and equipment safety validations.
Ensure the maintenance plan has purpose, that it evolves to allow the maximum time available for production, no strip and rebuild for the sake of it! Only replace worn/ broken parts – condition based rather than planned based maintenance.
Drive the tasks through required work from observations and data, not just theoretical plans.
Full evaluation of, cost, availability and requirement to decide if run to failure or replace.
Maintenance always follows production, not the other way around.
Ensure that maintenance tasks adhere to company’s food safety polices at all times.
Ensure all working practices comply with company rules and procedures in order that you and any other persons using the area of work can do so safely.
Always keep full and up to date records of all equipment to ensure traceability.
Treat all spends as if they are your own.
To manage, monitor and control costs to ensure that site costs are within budgeted requirements.
Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values.
All site process and equipment.
Break down interventions, maintenance and improvements.
Production Targets.
Maintenance budget.
Health & Safety.
Team management.
Training and development of the team.
Impeccable hygiene standards always.