Plant Engineer

Welcome to CTI Foods, where quality, service, and people are at the heart of everything we do. We are a leading food manufacturing company, dedicated to providing our customers with the best possible products and our employees with a rewarding career. 

At CTI, we passionately believe that people are our #1 ingredient. We provide a positive and supportive work environment, opportunities for growth and advancement, and a competitive compensation package. We value our employees' contributions and strive to create a culture of respect, teamwork, and excellence.

Whether you're interested in a career in production, quality control, or management, we have a variety of opportunities available. We believe that our success is a result of our focus on quality, service, and people, and we look forward to continuing to serve our customers and employees with excellence.

If you're looking for a rewarding career in the food manufacturing industry, look no further than CTI Foods! Join our team and become a part of a company that values quality, service, and people. 

The Plant Engineer develops and implements overall plant technical strategies and tactics focused on engineering projects, maintenance and reliability focused improvement programs. Develops and provides leadership to ensure implementation of low loss production systems. Provides solutions to technical problems and recommendations for improvements in production activities and manages the plant technical organization. Develops and leads plant specific engineering and maintenance strategies to achieve key performance goals. Creates and manages all plant technical expense budgets and works with Corporate Engineering to deliver the capital budget. 5-7 years related experience.

· Assist plant and provides leadership in establishing safety of all of our associates to World Class Safety and Zero Incidents.

· Support and provide Leadership in Food Safety and Quality to achieve goals of Zero Foreign Material.

· Lead the cross-functional development and implementation of the capital plan including the engagement of related Plant and Corporate functions such as, but not limited to Safety, Sanitation, Quality, Environmental, Operations, Maintenance, Finance and Operations

· Collaborate with the Plant in setting clearly delineated roles, responsibilities and accountabilities.

· Fostering a team-based problem-solving methodology.

· Support the Plant in driving business literacy through education of key business issues and concepts.

· Work/Leverage other Company technical resources to support projects including, but not limited to Engineering Project Manager, Subject Matter Expert and Start-up Manager roles.

· Assist Plant in delivering on KPI and financial objectives.

· Support the Plant in conducting internal systems audits as required.

· Support the Plant in providing direction and leadership in the development of long- and short-term plans and goals for the Plant.

· Support the Plant in providing project and technical support to the plant and division when required.

· Support the Plant in participating on and leading project teams that improve safety, quality, utilization, labor relations, sanitation, costs and customer service.

· Demonstrate ability to utilize available application computer programs.

· Demonstrate executive maturity through decision making and effective communication with various departments and managers to ensure plant resources are efficiently utilized in maximizing true efficiency.

· Lead the Plant in preparing and conducting necessary team meetings for proper communications and development of teams. Must also have the ability to work with Maintenance, Quality, Production and Warehouse teams to create a cooperative environment.

· Responsible for giving work direction and coordinating mechanical and clerical activities in the maintenance department.

· Reports to the facility Director of Operations

What we need from you:

· Engineering Degree required.

· Five years’ experience in Food Manufacturing; three years Training experience preferred.

· Leadership skills to work as a peer and advisor to other departments.

· Ability to rotate shifts and work weekends and holidays when required.

· Excellent communication and presentation skills; Computer applications skills.

· Key Leadership Competencies: Integrity/Trust, Ethics/Values, Action Oriented, Conflict Management, Customer Focus, Decision Quality, Managing Diversity, Functional/Technical Skills, Managerial Courage, Priority Setting, Drive for Results, Building Effective Teams, Managing Vision and Purpose.

What you'll receive from us:

• Unlimited PTO*
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Telehealth Services
• 401K Matching
• FSA & HSA available
• EAP and wellbeing support
• Tuition reimbursement program available

*The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range of candidates hired. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. Most candidates will start in the bottom half of the range. Unlimited PTO requests are subject to approval and is subject to the current business needs of CTI Foods.