| FOOD INDUSTRY- PLANT ENGINEER
Location: Lathrop, CA
Full Time/ 40 Hours
Salary : $135,000-$145,000 depends on experience
Bonus: up to 12%
Travel: None
This role is responsible for ensuring the long-term reliability, safety, and efficiency of utility systems and facility infrastructure, while driving engineering-led improvements through capital investments. Operating alongside the site’s Maintenance and Engineering Managers, the Plant Engineer concentrates on forward-looking initiatives that enhance site readiness, sustainability, and growth capacity. This role does not support day-to-day operations directly but instead focuses on project execution and strategic infrastructure development.
Required Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering (or related technical field) or equivalent progressive experience
- 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing or industrial engineering role
- Proven experience leading infrastructure-related capital projects
Strongly Preferred:
- Background in food & beverage or low-acid aseptic manufacturing
- Familiarity with FDA-regulated utility systems
Job Responsibilities consist of:
- Infrastructure Ownership:
- Oversee the design, reliability, and improvement of utility systems such as steam, compressed air, HVAC, chilled water, tower water, wastewater, and site energy systems
- Lead initiatives to upgrade and maintain facility infrastructure, including building envelope, drainage, dock doors, and critical systems
- Ensure infrastructure systems are compliant with applicable codes, internal standards, and safety requirements
- Suggest and support improvements to preventive and predictive maintenance programs for utility and facility assets
- Capital Project Leadership:
- Serve as the site’s capital project leader, responsible for full lifecycle management of capital initiatives from scope development through execution and closeout
- Collaborate with site and corporate stakeholders to define project goals, budgets, and timelines aligned with business needs
- Prepare and submit capital expenditure requests, following company procedures and standards
- Manage contractors and engineering partners to ensure safe, compliant, and cost-effective project delivery
- Ensure alignment with sustainability goals, operational strategy, and food safety requirements in all projects
- Strategic Engineering Support:
- Partner with Maintenance and Engineering Managers to identify infrastructure gaps and lead capital planning to address them
- Support new product, process, or capacity expansions through infrastructure readiness and utility capability enhancements
- Maintain and update system documentation, technical drawings, and engineering standards for infrastructure systems
- Contribute to site master planning and participate in long-range capital forecasting
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- On-time and on-budget capital project delivery
- o Utility and infrastructure uptime
- o Project ROI and alignment with strategic capital plan
- o TIR (Total Incident Rate) and adherence to safe work practices
- o Energy efficiency and infrastructure-related sustainability metrics
- Audit readiness and system compliance
|
