Staff Process Engineer

Business Unit/Function

GO / Manufacturing

Location

Sagamore Plant

Band

B

Cost Center

110120233

Reporting structure

Reports To

Operations Manager

Line Manager +1

Plant Manager, Manufacturing

Direct Reports

n/a

Key Relationships

This position works closely with Operations, Maintenance, and P&E.

About Us

Tate & Lyle is a global provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and other industries, operating from more than 30 locations around the world. Through large scale, efficient manufacturing plants, Tate & Lyle turns raw materials into distinctive, high quality ingredients. These ingredients and solutions add taste, texture, nutrition and increased functionality to products that millions of people around the world use or consume every day. We are the secret ingredient to Make Food Extraordinary in some of the world’s best loved brands. Could you be ours?

Role Purpose

The Staff Process Engineer position is responsible for providing technical expertise to ensure the operation produces product that meets all quality, cost, and efficiency requirements. This position will design, develop, and implement continuous process improvements to meet goals established by the business/location, along with providing technical guidance to the plant operations teams to assist with process troubleshooting and developing corrective action plans.

Safety Accountabilities – EHS Critical Role Level 2

Protecting our people and the environment is foundational to our business

Level 2-Key Role –

• Drive EHS Excellence Culture and Improvements for the Loudon Plant
• Focus on EHS systems, policies, and procedures and their effects on day to day operations.
• Audit and review EHS effectiveness in the plant.

Each team member is expected to support the Tate & Lyle culture where Environment, Health and Safety are the overriding values in all activities. Every team member is accountable for working safely and complying with all EHS policies, procedures and regulations relevant to their work and is expected to speak up and intervene to prevent unsafe conditions and to respect fellow workers and the communities in which we work.  Included in this is abidance with our Life Saving Principles (LSPs) and our STOP WORK AUTHORITY which are developed to strengthen our workplace safety, prevent serious injury or loss of life.

As a member of the Engineering Team incumbent shares overall responsibility for:

• Embed a PSM culture in our EHS Management System at the facilities and develop local knowledge
• Provide regulatory interpretation and technical support on process safety matters and site projects
• Coordinate Compliance efforts in line with COMAH/OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM)and EPA Risk Management Plan (RMP) rules

Main Accountabilities

• In addition to the requirements of a Level 1 Production Engineer, entry to this position is based on additional experience and professional competence. Typically, an incumbent would remain at this level for 3 years while gaining additional experience and expertise.
• Will conduct and/or participate in engineering projects. Monitors day-to day production results. Translate process to flow sheet representation. Designs and specifies operation of plant processes. Obtains, organizes and interprets engineering data. Performs economic and technical analyses of projects.
• Assists in preparing engineering proposals. Assists in developing findings, draws conclusions and makes recommendations. Prepares engineering reports and cost estimates. The demonstrated ability to develop findings, draw conclusions and make recommendations on one’s own is required for promotion to the next level.
• Contributes to the design of the engineering projects including ideas for safer, less expensive or new techniques whether or not situation is related to a specific project.
• Responsible for meeting engineering assignments within time and budget constraints.
• Applies standard engineering theories, concepts and techniques. Applies a working knowledge of related disciplines.
• Works on a wider range of troubleshooting problems; uses basic knowledge of the process and creative thinking to solve problems and recommend corrective action. By the end of their tenure in this position, the engineer should have completed and stared up a handful of successful process projects and ideally, the engineer will have assisted in at least one major project start-up.
• Gains recognition from peers for gaining knowledge in engineering