Electrical & Automation Engineering Expert

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At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.

 

Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.
 
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**There is relocation assitance offered with this position**

We are in search of a highly motivated automation professional to join our regional Aseptic Engineering Team. The right individual is recognized as a subject matter expert in E&A engineering. This role brings a unique opportunity for an accomplished engineer who will bring proven plant floor experience to step into this strategic corporate role with excellent growth prospects. In this role you will demonstrate a deep understanding of specific automation systems and industry wide best practices. You will depend on your proven hands-on E&A experience and a team-oriented mindset to successfully integrate into several multidisciplinary, diverse, and highly competitive team environments. The right individual will maintain focus on the core objective of the Aseptic Engineering team; To act as a leader and a strategic engineering resource for multiple site-specific E&A teams. You will take initiative on developing and implementing long-term solutions, execute site-specific engineering plans to drive strategies, empower the local automation teams through knowledge sharing and training programs, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and establish a collaborative relationship with site-specific teams for problem identification and solution implementation. Thorough success in this role will require reliable and consistent communication with the central leadership to maintain focus on being an asset to the Aseptic Engineering Team and promote its greater strategic goals. 

Build Engineering capability: 

Ensures that key E&A personnel managing, operating and maintaining E&A equipment and infrastructure are competent to do so safely and efficiently. Ensures that competency assessment and competency building plans are in place, routinely reviewed and executed in the factories.  Help factories to define and create the right E&A team structure to support each of the factories. Coach junior and senior engineers during the onboarding process and set regular development reviews. Deliver technical trainings.  

Deliver Process Improvements: 

Have a good knowledge of the production processes (Process Mastership) and problem solving methodologies, help the factories to identify and deliver improvement of quality, safety or efficiency while protecting the technological know how and competitive advantage. 

Operate and Maintain: 

Have a detailed insight on the factories' strategy, KPIs and gaps to support the implementation and execution of maintenance strategy, tools and methodologies at site level. Ensures safe and reliable operation of electrical systems, instrumentation, process and supervisory control, and manufacturing execution systems (MES). Drive implementation of digital technologies to deliver assets' reliability.   

Manage Risk and Compliance: 

Work together with the factories to ensures that all E&A installations comply with market and corporate safety, health, environment, product safety and product quality standards. Ensures that the key E&A documentation is up to date and in place (e.g. electrical drawings, automation documentation and backups, maintenance plans, etc.). Ensure that the Management of Change is in place to appropriately manage modifications involving E&A systems.   

Drive Sustainability: 

Actively participate on the factories' sustainability objectives, help define priorities, develop and operationalize the strategy to generate energy and water savings. Bring new ideas generated through corporate initiatives or benchmarking. Track and report results coming from any improvement projects, even from the ones that are not specifically related to sustainability.   

Manage factory asset portfolio: 

Ensures a strategy is in place to anticipates asset end-of-life, obsolescence and replacement requirements, without compromising asset performance and cost competitiveness.