Sr Manufacturing System Engineer

Title: Sr Manufacturing System Engineer

               

Location: Richland, WA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

Serves as a product attribute and technical subject matter expert for advanced plant manufacturing systems. Interacts regularly with plant leadership to ensure all systems maintain high levels production consistency and efficiency. Leads efforts to measure, track, and improve system capability versus key processing parameters and finished product specifications. Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement. Minimum 5 years related experience.

Job Description

Job Summary

Serves as a technical expert and subject matter expert in understanding advanced manufacturing systems within each platform. Interacts regularly with plant leadership to ensure all systems are built to maintain high levels of accuracy and efficiency. Leads the effort in measuring, tracking, and improving the system capability versus key processing parameters and finished product specifications. Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement.

Position Responsibilities

Become both System and product subject matter expert for every stakeholder:

• Interface with Key Stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure mutual understanding of system performance and product quality (be in the know).
• Lead the effort in measuring, tracking, and improving system capability versus key processing parameters and finished product specifications.
• Act as the primary point-of-contact for the RQI function for any new product, process, or packaging improvements or start-ups.
• Consult on change management of designated process or system (new product, new package, new system)
• Liaise with RQI to achieve system capability of new product introduction, new packaging, formulation, and line extensions and engineering for technical changes to their process, local QA in driving reduction in consumer complaints

Improve System Performance

• Key technical resource on process ó product interaction. Understand capability of each unit operation to deliver in-specification product. Know system bottlenecks and propose actions to exploit them.
• Create and maintain product material balances including all relevant unit operations to insure optimal production rates, parameters and formulas. Analyze differences between the formulaic (theoretical) material balance and the plant (actual) operation and propose work to minimize differences.

Increase Productivity and Propose Capacity Solutions

• Understand each unit operation’s unconstrained rate limits, by product, while still producing acceptable quality product.
• Create and maintain overall System Capability Profiles, by product, using the information learned from each unit operation’s unconstrained rate capability study.
• Demonstrate strong troubleshooting skills through the use of continuous improvement techniques. Show thorough understanding of the interactions between machine, materials, methods, environment and people to provide robust operating systems.
• Implement solutions which use existing capital for maximum performance and capacity.
• Create and maintain an overall System Capacity Analysis - a System characterizing tool that classifies production losses into several categories. Propose and execute work to minimize the losses identified.
• Use system modeling to propose cost effective, stepwise future investments.

Capital Inves