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About this Process Engineer role at Smucker's

Smucker's · Onsite · Longmont, CO

Your Opportunity as the Process Engineer  

The Process Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing production processes to improve efficiency, reduce waste, increase throughput, and improve product quality. Ensuring that products meet quality and safety standards, as well as collaborating with other departments to troubleshoot issues and implement best practices.

 

Location: Longmont, CO

 

Work Arrangements: 100% Onsite, Monday–Friday with flexibility to support operations during occasional evenings, nights, or weekends, based on operational and business needs.

In this role you will:  

 

    • Identify and advance cost savings and process improvement opportunities.
    • Drive out defects in the process and enhance overall safety, quality and productivity by collaborating with operations teams and leadership.
    • Provide technical leadership within cross functional teams to deliver initiatives and departmental projects.
    • Evaluate ingredients, optimize formulas for quality, performance, consumer satisfaction and profitability.
    • Owns equipment area and responsible for results and equipment availability.
    • Efficiently and successfully formulate new, and improve current, products leveraging consumer/customer and marketing feedback and sensory shelf-life results.
    • Employ effective interpersonal time and resource management skills to complete projects assignments, leading multiple projects simultaneously.
    • Build and leverage strong internal/external network to gain insight, influence and information.
    • Develop and improve process documentation.
    • Help organization stay current with applicable new technologies/ingredients.
    • Support and provide guidance to operations/engineering organizations on evaluation of new production opportunities, improving existing operations, cost-saving ideas, and troubleshooting of major problems.
    • Monitor new products trends/competitive trend and activities.
    • Use data to trend/optimize processes

 

What we are looking for:  

 

Minimum Requirements: 

    • Bachelor’s degree required, Engineering preferred; Mechanical, Chemical, or Industrial preferred
    • Engineering experience in a manufacturing setting required
    • Manufacturing experience required, preferably in food

 

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:  

  • Engineering focused experience, this could include internship and/or co-op experience
  • Strong analytical skills to drive statistically based decision making
  • Project management experience
  • Project management skills
    • Problem solving ability
    • Solid inter-personal skills
    • Ability to teach and lead others
    • Open to managing operating teams as needed (as backup or future assignment)
    • Can work off shift or weekends as needed

 

 

Work Environment: This job operates in a manufacturing environment. The noise level in the work environment and manufacturing sites can be high.

 

Physical Demands:

  • Regularly required to talk and hear.  
  • Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
  • Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
  • Able to lift objects up to 50 pounds frequently.
  • May push and pull heavy trash carts, dough carts, portable equipment, and catch pans.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 

Colorado Salary Range

$78,000 to $111,650

The Right Place for You 

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs. 

Stay connected with us on LinkedIn® 

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. 

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How this Process Engineer salary compares

This role pays $94,825/yr — below the typical range for Process Engineer roles.

$80,237 median $118,250 $167,911

Typical range $96,942–$142,500/yr, from 764 comparable Process Engineer listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Process Engineer salary insights →

About Smucker's

The J. M. Smucker Co. (the “Company”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. No person will be discriminated against in hiring or in any other aspect of their employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, marital status, familial status, disability, genetic information, protected veteran/military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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