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Lamb Weston Engineer, Packaging Systems in Kennewick, Washington
Title: Engineer, Packaging Systems Location: Kennewick, WA About Lamb Weston We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people. We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow. We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world! Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries. Job Description Summary This position provides technical engineering expertise with a focus on case packing, case forming, case closing, and packaging systems used in Lamb Weston. The person in this position will be responsible for documenting, tracking, and directing technical maintenance of these systems. Equipment includes product distribution scales, bagging, casing, palletizing, wrapping. Additionally, a key responsibility is developing and maintaining technical, operational, and service documentation as well as best practices for manufacturing plants. The incumbent will spend a large portion of their time improving asset utilization of company packaging systems. As a member of the Global Engineering Technical Support team, this person will be charged to work with plant operations, EHSS, Food Protection, Continuous Improvement, engineering teams and OEM vendors, to achieve next level performance and utilization of case packing technology. All this will facilitate Lamb Weston's Journey to Zero. This position is based out of the Lamb Weston Kennewick, Washington, engineering office. SME (subject matter expert) level training will be provided for the specific systems used in Lamb Weston. Job Description * Provide leadership in establishing safety of all our associates to World Class Safety and Zero Incidents as a primary objective. * Support and provide Leadership in Quality and Food Safety to achieve goals of Zero Foreign Material. * Provide subject matter expertise for bagging, casing, palletizing, and wrapping equipment to actively improve asset utilization through elimination of unplanned mechanical downtime. * Support the team in providing project and technical design when required. * Demonstrate professional maturity in decision making and effective communication with various departments and managers to ensure project team resources are efficiently utilized. * Prepare and maintain meeting agendas and minutes. * Assist and Maintain Technical documentation, best practices, drawings, project documents. * Leads training and assembly of Lamb Weston technologies when needed. * Participates in project meetings. * Provides up-to-date copies of drawings and specifications to contractors, project team, and plant personnel. * Quality Assurance/Quality Control: Assists in verifying that all materials installed comply with Lamb Weston approved submittals, and Standards. * Participates in project FAT/SAT process. * Monitors packaging system performance, especially case packing and closing systems, to identify needed improvements and act to implement them. Basic & Preferred Qualifications * 3-5 years of manufacturin