Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream · 2 hours ago
Process Engineer
Laurel, Maryland, United States
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$74K/yr - $80K/yrDreyer's Grand Ice Cream is embarking on a new phase of growth as part of Froneri, a global leader in ice cream. The Process Engineer role combines project management and process engineering responsibilities, focusing on executing new product trials, managing production line startups, and ensuring quality and safety standards are met.
Food and BeverageFood ProcessingSnack Food
Responsibilities
Working with the project manager to define and communicate project scope, objectives, and expectations
Identifying project resource requirements and escalating resource constraints
Building and managing the project schedule, defining the critical path, tracking activities to ensure functional team members are meeting agreed upon deadlines, generating, and communicating status reports, and escalating critical issues
Preventative management of roadblocks and generation of risk management plans
Coordinating and facilitating project meetings including kick off meetings, project team meetings, risk assessments, lessons learned, and additional meetings as required
To ensure the designed equipment and machines can produce products that meet the customer specification, quality, and food safety
Ensure that health and safety requirements are fully met and support a positive safety culture
Manage, monitor, and control costs to ensure project costs are within budgeted requirements
Communicate effectively with the entire team, through meetings, memos, team briefings, etc. on a regular basis
Support any operational issues and projects as required
Knowledge and competency – Develop, learn, and pass on knowledge in the Ice Cream making and other processing areas cross functionally with primary goal of developing good troubleshooting skills and continuous improvement skills
Keep yourself informed of production plans and any changes. It is important to be proactive in finding out what is happening rather than waiting to be told
Look for issues. Do not wait to be told or instructed to complete a task
Promote the Froneri culture of employees being owners rather than just employees
Look for issues. Do not wait to be told or instructed to complete a task
Ensure that you walk the talk and use looking eyes, attend to the issues as and when they happen
Other duties as assigned
Lead and participate in commissioning all new lines
Ensure full maintenance and process records are kept on all equipment and allow full traceability of work
Ensure effective handover between project teams to operations team
Drive the production process to meet customer specification, quality, and food safety
Create commissioning and ramp up plans for projects and work with all departments and teams to deliver the plan
Have strong organizational skills and communication in order to be effective at delivering outcomes
Drive line performances so that when line is handed over to operations, the line is operating at standard efficiencies (RTY, capacity, quality, etc.)
Attend Product Portfolio Meetings and inform factory team of recipe changes and new products coming to the factory at regular intervals
Organize trials in factory as required for new materials, recipe changes, and new product launches. This also includes scheduling, creating trial plan, working with team to execute, and preparing post-trial communications
Follow up on any open items relating to trials to ensure final execution of new materials, recipe changes, and new products are successful
Qualification
Required
Possess good verbal and written communication skills. Ability to read, write, and follow instructions and correspondences
Ability to learn technical terminology
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs
Demonstrate strong mechanical aptitude
Ability to troubleshoot equipment failure
Ability to work well with others
Basic computer skills
Ability to make independent decisions
Ability to plan and prioritize work
Good customer service interaction, patient teacher, quick learner, good work ethic
Bachelor's degree chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or a related engineering discipline
Passion for engineering and eagerness to learn new skills
Aptitude for automated mechanical processes with good troubleshooting and diagnostic skills
Excellent interpersonal communication, math and problem solving skills
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Paid parental leave
401K plan with employer match and annual contribution available
Company
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream is a manufacturer of ice cream products.
Founded in 1928
1001-5000 employees
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