Engineering Manager

McCain Foods USA•Othello, WA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

To provide total maintenance and engineering support for all facilities associated with the Othello site to ensure maximum operational potential is realized.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university.
5-7 years’ related experience in senior management.
Incumbent has a continuing communicative relationship with the Production Managers, Field Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Human Resources Business Partner, and their respective teams at all echelons.
Establish and maintain a reasonable reservoir of desirable outside contractors and works closely with them in the factory areas where they may perform work.
Incumbent is responsible for analyzing all factory purchases and to seek ways to reduce costs through negotiations with vendors.
General working knowledge of all site operations; including, but not limited to, raw product systems, processing, packaging, warehousing, freezing, waste treatment and handling, environmental regulations and operations, boiler operations, purchasing, etc. as well as the impact of each of these areas of overall Factory performance.

Responsibilities

Provide direction for maintaining and operating all physical equipment and facilities to ensure proper utilization.
Investigate and, where possible, eliminate any mechanical or maintenance problem which would affect production schedules.
Take timely and appropriate corrective action to control unfavorable expenditure trends which would result in exceeding appropriation funding, expense budgets, etc.
Maintain and progressively improve a Preventive Maintenance Program.
Prepare and submit reports on a timely basis, including annual operating and capital budgets, and to work within these budget guidelines.
Diligently work on, and strive for, operational efficiency through McCain Quality Performance and other mechanisms for profitability.
Develop Departmental employee relations by continuing communication of all information affecting them and through the conducting of departmental safety meetings so as to develop a safe and healthful working attitude.
Maintain open lines of communications between departments and employees.
Conduct special studies as assigned, or perform self initiated studies designed to improve Departmental services with associated economics.
Direct or assist in the design of Factory improvement or capacity expansion projects.
Prepare, or assist in the preparation of, appropriations with memoranda of justification.
Maintain close follow-up cost data supplied by Finance Department.
Direct the sale of salvage materials to obtain maximum dollar return.
Maintain and coordinate an on-going management development program for the supervisory personnel to enhance their managerial potential.
Possess and keep current on the most advanced information of manufacturing maintenance and the overall maintenance area.
Oversee purchasing and stockroom operations in order to reduce costs.
Manager, or his/her designee, is responsible for annual and/or ongoing training.