Manufacturing Packaging Engineer - Covington, GA

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The Manufacturing Packaging Engineer (internally called a Sr. Systems Engineer) role provides technical leadership and serves as a system and product specialist. They are responsible to build the team’s processing technical skills through a hands-on approach. They are accountable for the operational foundational systems across systems they own and to the plant to secure basic conditions and drive out losses with the platform team. This role will be focused on the packaging lines in the Twinscrew and Sprout department at the Covington Site. The Covington Site has two physical plants supporting Big G Cereal and Snacks. The Site has 7 Platforms (Puff, Flake, Snacks, Sheeted Twinscrew, Sprout, and 2 Twinscrew DX Systems). The plant operates 4-crew structure with rotating 12-hour shifts.

The Manufacturing Packaging Engineer plays a critical role to continuously improve by optimizing system performance and product quality while driving strategic productivity and capacity solutions for the platform and ultimately the business. This level showcases a Manufacturing Packaging Engineer's knowledge and foundation to build the capability of others. This role centers on consistent manufacturing performance, problem-solving, and improvement. It involves significant floor time to understand manufacturing processes, coupled with development within the Systems Engineering JTA. The primary focus is improvement and loss elimination activities aligned with system glidepath and future state goals. This includes supporting team skill development inclusive of content development and talent assessments, and advocating for system investments, articulating their financial impact to plant leadership for annual planning. As knowledge expands, credibility as a strategic partner with Engineering, Ops and ITQ will increase. This will allow more intentional focus on other systems and to engage in business plans.

• •Communicate and engage effectively with teams across the full site
• •Regularly engage with corporate engineering, R&D and business teams to advocate for their system current and future state
• •Provide early level coaching to early tenure Systems Engineers and plant personnel (MEA, Operations Leaders, etc.)
• •Support L&D assessments and content development
• •At the site level partner with leadership to advocate for system investment

Process Leadership and Ownership

• •Responsible to lead the execution of Loss Tree and Glidepath efforts, building team skills around glidepath development
• •Execute loss elimination tasks to improve system and equipment reliability through use of continuous improvement processes and problem solving
• •Build learnings into training materials and coaching of the operating team members to increase capability of the broader team
• •Execute and identify of HMM initiatives
• •Actively improve the data and information of the system to increase the ability to model and predict opportunity areas (performance metrics, financial information, data historian, maintenance management system).

• •Accountable for the operational foundation systems across the platform to secure basic conditions and drive out losses (Clean-Inspect-Lubricate CIL, Centerlines CL and Theory of Operation TOO)

Vertical Start-Up (VSU): Execute project support (planning, start-up).

• •Advanced expertise in the 4M's through a physical presence on the manufacturing floor (machine, materials, methods, human) to build capability in others understanding of interdependency of inputs
• •Actively showcase system mastery via application and understanding of Operations Foundational Systems
• •Secure material balance and unit operation expertise on the system(s) to ensure optimal production rates, parameters, and formulas
• •Engage with R&D partners on impacts of formulations, HMM efforts, etc. to optimize 4M interface
• •Develop through connections and learning from operators, technicians and peers through rigorous application and understanding of foundational systems
• •Clearly articulate financial impact to the plant based on business and plant decisions in support of annual financial, capital and capacity planning

• •This position will provide backup support as needed, ensuring business continuity and operational efficiency
• •Technical partners on platform team (SE, QE, Maintenance)