Position Title: Project Engineer

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Grand Island On-site (https://goo.gl/maps/gu9ruH3D4tEHMzfZ7)

Salary: 70,000 – 110,000

Shift: Monday – Friday 7am – 3pm (flexible)

Requisition ID: 17181

About McCain:

McCain Foods is proud to be a family and values-driven company. Our values are integral to our culture, helping to shape how we operate, how we work together and the choices we make. They are a big part of what makes us unique. McCain Foods opened their first production facility in their hometown of Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. McCain Foods quickly established itself within the Canadian marketplace and then began a journey to become the world's largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and potato specialties.

McCain products can be found in thousands of restaurants and supermarket freezers around the world. In addition to fries, McCain also produces other foods, including appetizers, oven meals, vegetables and juice for both the retail and foodservice industries.

Why You Should Join Our Grand Island Team:

McCain Food’s facility in Grand Island is a large-scale food processing plant, employing approximately 400 employees. This site specializes in the production of Battered and Breaded Onion Ring and other appetizers such as Cheese sticks and French Toast Sticks.

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McCain offers full benefits:

• Health Benefit Plans including Dental, Vision, etc.

• 20 Paid time off days

• 401k – up to 6% matching starting on Day 1

• Health Spending Account/ HRA & Flexible Spending Accounts

• Adoption & Infertility Assistance, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

• Education Reimbursement Assistance

• Apprenticeship, Internship, & Coop support and opportunities

Sustainability and Planet Friendly Practices are at the heart of McCain:

We’ve embarked upon a journey to create planet-friendly food. We are committed to investing in resource-efficient operations in factories and farms.

• We are moving to 100% renewable energy by 2030.

• Donating 200 million meals to food banks and NGO worldwide by 2025.

• Implementing regenerative agricultural practices across 100% of our potato acreage by 2030.

The Role:

As the Manufacturing Project Engineer, you will create, develop and deploy new processes and equipment at McCain’s. You will collaborate with cross functional teams in a matrix organization to successfully launch projects, assist in transition and prepare the plant for project start up and handover.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with both internal and external project and resource teams to drive projects from inception to launch

• Communicate, coordinate, partner and influence outside vendors in development and delivery of new products, equipment and processes

• Implementation of equipment and process – Manages priorities and activities of SuM team (Startup Management)

• DFM – Design for manufacturing; Including Sanitary design

• Standard operating procedures / general operating procedures

• Total productive maintenance actives – AM’s/PM’s/ spare parts

• CQV – Commission, qualification, and validation – work with technical services, maintenance and operations to

• Works with training staff to develop detailed Technical Training and Turnover Plan

• Support, manage, and facilitate continuous improvements

• Develop and maintain project plans with detail timelines through collaboration with functional groups including Corporate Engineering, Technical Services, R&D, Quality, Safety, Operations, and Maintenance

• Provide analysis, evaluation, and forecast of project costs and performance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Project Management or related field

• Project Management experience

• Manufacturing experience in relation to food processing and packaging equipment

• Above average computer software skills, AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, Excel

• Detail oriented, able to creatively problem solve, and make decisions

• Champion of Change

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions both written and oral as well as read and interpret schedules related to production

Previous experiences that might be an asset in this role include the following titles: Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Civil Engineer, Project Manager, Construction Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Construction Manager

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The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supported by science, and in line with our culture and values, we believe that being vaccinated is the most effective way to protect each other, our families, our customers, and our communities. It is therefore a requirement that the successful candidate for this role be fully vaccinated and have completed the mandatory incubation period prior to the candidate’s start date with McCain, subject to reasonable accommodations if you are unable to be vaccinated for protected grounds under applicable human rights legislation (e.g. medical or religious reasons).

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Job Family: Manufacturing; Engineering & Technical
Division: NA Appetizer Manufacturing
Department: Grand Island Engineering
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.