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Senior Technical Services Manager
| Company | Land O’Lakes |
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| Location | Abbotsford, WI, USA |
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| Salary | $105040 – $157560 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Degree major required: BS Engineering or Technical/Science discipline (Mechanical, Industrial, and Chemical)
- Required experience: 7+ years’ experience in Food/Dairy Manufacturing including 3 years’ technical experience and production leadership or 10 years of experience in Food /Dairy Manufacturing with 5 years of technical and production leadership in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree
- Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint preferred; as well as aptitude to learn specialized programs.
Responsibilities
- Develop and continually improve strategy for addressing specific key process improvements across the Spencer, WI facility.
- Assess specific causes of variation to drive consistency, reliability, capacity expansion, cost reduction, and risk mitigation opportunities.
- Identify world-class technologies and drive best practices.
- Solidify relationships / partnerships with key internal partners and outside vendors.
- Manage activity prioritization and all project tracking for process improvements.
- Manage maintenance of and continuous improvement of plant control systems.
- Lead efforts to drive cost to serve project creation and completion.
- Identify and prioritize resolution of operational problems.
- Coordinate plant technical solutions and associated resources needed.
- Assist coordination of project start-ups.
- Assist Engineering in plant/project design updates.
- Collaborate and partner with R &D on product trials and developments.
- Partner with Maintenance manager in developing and implementing electrical and controls training for maintenance techs.
- Drive implementation and adoption of key controls and technology standards.
Preferred Qualifications
- A Master’s degree is preferred.
- Dairy and/or food manufacturing experience, highly desired
- Experience with Controls Systems in Emerson or Rockwell is highly desired
- Experience working in a union environment is highly desired
- Experience with Microsoft Suite, Power BI and other related software
- Dairy and/or food manufacturing experience are preferred.
- Six Sigma or Black Belt designation is preferred.
