Project Engineer
Company | Kraft Heinz |
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Location | New Boston, IL, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited engineering school or related field is Strongly Preferred
- 3+ years of experience or full cycle Project Engineering experience
- Strong background in mechanical and hydraulic systems, packaging methods, and materials, electronics and computer applications, and electrical systems
- Strong communication skills are required for presentations to factory staffs on technical issues or specific project activity
- Ability to read, analyzes, and interprets general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
- Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
- Ability to work to flexible schedule including days, afternoons, midnights, and overtime as needed
Responsibilities
- To ensure projects are completed on time within budget or with successful attainment of objectives
- Completes specific phases or aspects of the project such as technical studies, product design, preparation of specifications and technical plans and product testing
- Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems
- Controls expenditures within limitations of project budget
- Prepares interim and completion project reports
- Provide functional and technical support to the factories to minimize production and maintenance problems
- Apply engineering expertise to equipment design, problems solving, and quality improvement
- Participate in committee or task forces where necessary to contribute to company goals
- Support PRC and key support projects as technical advisor or project manager
- In every activity, use the principles of TQM ‘To do the job right the first time’
- Promote TQM through actions and communications to all customers (internal and external)
- Development of project scope, justification, and factory/company impact
- Appropriation preparation including cost estimates, savings, and timing plan
- Development and management of cost controls, asset controls and scheduling controls
- Hires and supervises various contractors in the scope of project manager
- The incumbent must maintain a strong back-up source of technical files, vendors, and manufacturers, and engineering groups
- Evaluate, plan and implement approved projects in the direction of Engineering, Project Review Committee and/or Management Board
- Cost Reduction/Production Improvement; Participate actively in Company efforts to reduce operational costs and improve finished quality attributes
- Analyzing and preparing appropriation request for capital improvement and replacements of inefficient assets
- Direct and compile capital budgeting; collect future capital project requirements from factory departments and compile into a final five-year capital budget
- Analyze and prepare appropriation requests; prepares and financially analyzes all capital and expense appropriation requests
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.