Manager, Engineering-Warehouse Project Manager

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With nearly $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

The construction of fairlife's manufacturing facility in Webster, NY is underway. This state-of-the-art, 750k sq ft, greenfield plant is expected to be operational in late 2025 and will lay the foundation for fairlife's next phase of growth as the leading dairy nutrition provider. While coupling the industry’s latest technologies and fairlife's operational excellence to build this world-class facility, fairlife plans to hire 250 new employees and bring in approximately 5 million lbs. of milk a day, with room to grow over the coming years.

job purpose: The Manager, Engineering – Warehouse Project Manager has accountability for owning elements of the design, timeline, scope, budget, and vendor management for large, complex, or multi-location capital projects involving warehouse automation, maintenance, and asset management planning. This role will ensure commercialization projects create efficiency, deliver capacity, and drive operational savings. Accountabilities include design, construction, installation, commissioning, validation, and optimization post go-live.

responsibilities:

Engineering Project Support

• Support the workstream leader by executing program-level strategies, schedules, and budget requirements for warehouse capital projects.
• Own critical elements of the capital project process for warehousing, including design reviews, timeline control, budget management, and stakeholder communications.
• Manage key vendors to ensure adherence to contracts, timeline control, effective collaboration with other workstreams, cost control, and quality of equipment / installation.
• Participate in equipment final acceptance testing, punch list creation, and close out
• Partner with other functions such as Operations, Quality, Safety, and Supply Chain to pilot and transition ownership of capital projects.
• Build mathematical models to support business cases which drive decision making around sizing, throughput, financing, and future expansions.
• Support for the integration of PLCs, HMIs, process controls, labeling and scanning hardware
• Lead the design of key plant fit-out items, including visual displays, signage, PPE stations, 5S areas, and safety barriers.

Operations Readiness Support

• Create (or refine existing) process flows for all key warehouse and maintenance functions.
• Support the development and testing process of warehouse control systems with D365.
• Become a D365 super user to support development of training materials and troubleshooting during testing and go-live.
• Support commissioning for warehousing OEMs and system integrators by ensuring test materials are ordered and facility staffing is adequate.
• Support the hiring, training and mentorship of key Warehouse Operations team members.
• Lead reporting and communications with key Operations business partners.
• Ensure all ‘Best Practices’, as defined by the business, are implemented within new facilities or line expansions.
• Support our maintenance business partners by gathering, collecting, and cleaning OEM spare parts and maintenance routine data.
• Develop KPIs with supporting calculations and data sources for packaging and processing areas, and support our Business Intelligence Teams in the implementation.
• Support other operations readiness activities as required (e.g., temporary offices, lab fit out…)

 

skills/qualifications required:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related business degree
• Exceptional project management capabilities
• Expert in using MS Excel, AutoCad, and MS Project
• Experience with food and beverage
• Experience with demonstrating key PMO principles
• Knowledge of Supply Chain, Packaging, WMS, WCS, AGV’s and general automated warehouse technology and YMS (Yard Management Systems)
• Strong cost management and forecasting experience and knowledge