Nufarm · 9 hours ago
Plant Production Engineer
Chicago Heights, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$85K/yr - $121K/yr
2+ years expNufarm is a dependable partner in agriculture, helping growers around the world with their challenges. They are seeking a Plant Production Engineer to drive process optimization and improvement in the production plant, ensuring safety and quality standards are met while leading continuous improvement projects.
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Responsibilities
Lead by example on safety programs and policies
Close audit actions on assigned areas of responsibilities
Initiate, manage and close MOC actions relate to assigned areas of responsibilities
Eliminate production variance related to material usage variance, yield, write-offs
Measure and improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
Implement statistical process controls (SPC) in critical areas to improve the plant performance in areas of safety, quality, production, and costs
Keep Billing of Material (BOM) updates, reduce scrap factors and improve routings in Oracle
Work closely to the Production Coordinator, Production Manager and Supervisors and Production Scheduler to improve adherence to production plans for the next 12 months
Active involvement in the RCCP meetings to ensure the success of the production plans and to deliver on our promises to customers
Certified Apollo root cause process, lead investigation and ensure actions are closed in assigned area of responsibilities. Implement sustainable corrective solutions for management systems breakdowns associated with identified root causes
Ensure procedures/checklists are maintained updated and properly used
Troubleshoot the plant together with the Operations team to avoid safety, quality and production issues
Document best practices, learned lessons, corrective and preventive actions in the plant standard operations procedures (SOPs)
Ensure Unusual Incident Reports (UIRs) are recorded, investigated and actions properly closed
Support Operations and Packaging managers on spending management and cost reduction initiatives
Support new product introduction and ensure new campaigns are produced safely, on-time, meeting quality specifications at lower costs
Take customers to site tours and work with quality to reduce quality complaints
Ensure assigned area of responsibilities run free of product contamination and compliance to Nufarm Product Integrity Golden Rules. Croplife’s requirement subject matter expert
Support capex projects in the scope definition, construction, procedure writing/implementation, training of plant personnel and release to operation
Back up for the Process Control Engineer to troubleshoot code/logic issues and to ensure the operation is done free of forces and alarm nuisance
Train or support the plant personnel to be trained in all areas related to the packaging operations, including safety, product contamination, quality, and production
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering
2-5 years of manufacturing/process/quality engineering experience
Ability to identify, drive, and implement key process improvements working with plant management, quality, safety, supervisors, maintenance, engineering, operators
Working knowledge of chemical process and or packaging equipment
Ability to identify root cause and corrective actions
Troubleshoot issues and implement process improvements
Preferred
Experience with manufacturing improvement tools such as Six Sigma, Lean, SPC, Root Cause Analysis, 5S
Proficiency with MS Office Suites
Benefits
Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits
Company
Nufarm
Australian based manufacturer of a wide range of crop protection products for Australian growers.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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Leadership Team
Scott Crawford
Chief Financial Officer, North America
Recent News
2025-11-19
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