at Perdue Farms in Milford, Delaware, United States
Job Description
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 entire technical 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 management and local, state and federal agencies to ensure the facility meets and exceeds codes and/or policies.
