Senior Plant Engineer

Summary

Perdue Farms, Inc. is actively seeking an experienced Senior Plant Engineer to join the Milford, DE team.  This individual provides the day-to-day technical leadership and direction to Operations activities and supports the plant goals and deliverables. Position is also responsible for delivering maximum equipment/system uptime through the application of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with plant management team and VP of Engineering to execute technical strategies that deliver on Safety, Compliance, Quality, Profitable Growth, and Cost.
• Develops and leads overall plant technical strategies and tactics focused on Safety, Compliance, Quality, Profitable Growth, and Cost.
• Promotes and incorporates “safety” as a culture and a strategy in all aspects of the technical and operations areas and demands focused results from the entiretechnical organization.
• Develops and leads plant specific engineering and maintenance projects to achieve key performance goals.
• Responsible for site capital investment strategy; Develop budgets for future capital projects and compile into a multi-year capital budgets.
• Ensures facility structures and infrastructures are maintained to meet or exceed the operational needs including but not limited to electrical, mechanical, boiler, and refrigeration systems.
• Collaborates with Engineering leadership to create, understand, and strictly adhere to plant technical expense budgets.
• Provide technical leadership and work with corporate insurance, risk managementand local, state and federal agencies to ensure the facility meets and exceeds codesand/or policies.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor’s in Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical) or equivalent work experience.
  
  

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in food or manufacturing.
• Must be proficient in the use of general office tools such as Outlook and Microsoft Office.
• Must be able to effectively communicate and work collaboratively within the plantand as required across all facilities.
• General knowledge of Auto Cad to include working with drawings, dimensioning, and updating when equipment is installed or moved.
• Requires travel to vendors, training seminars, other plants and to the Corporate office for periodic technical strategy meetings and capital planning sessions.

Experience Preferred

• Automation experience and working knowledge of the plant Computerized Maintenance Management System (Maximo) preferred.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

• Position is active. On the floor activities such as troubleshooting and re-design of existing systems are routine.
• May need to move equipment occasionally.
• May need to access files, supplies andequipment.
• Work activity is where the processing equipment is located.
• Work environment includes, but is not limited to, a normal office environment and construction site as well as climate extremes found in a poultry processing operation, feed mill, hatchery and a waste water treatmentfacility.
• Position requires ability to move throughout the complex and all facilities.

When in a plant environment:

• Exposure primarily consists of wet and moist floors including metal and plastic grating surfaces.
• May be exposed to temperatures of 28 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with both ambient and 100% humidity.
• May handle product 25 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. 
• May be exposed to noise ranges of 50 db to 110 db.
• May be exposed to all chemicals used in poultry, food, processing facility.
• Must wear and use protective and safety equipment required for the job as directed by the Company.
• Must be able to work in confined and or permit required confined spaces and heights.
• Must be able to work on and or around operating equipment.
• Must be trained and use Lockout/Tagout.