About McCain:
McCain Foods is proud to be a family and values-driven company. Our values are integral to our culture, helping to shape how we operate, how we work together and the choices we make. They are a big part of what makes us unique. McCain Foods opened their first production facility in their hometown of Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. McCain Foods quickly established itself within the Canadian marketplace and then began a journey to become the world’s largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and potato specialties.
McCain products can be found in thousands of restaurants and supermarket freezers around the world. In addition to fries, McCain also produces other foods, including appetizers, oven meals, vegetables and juice for both the retail and foodservice industries.
Why You Should Join Our Othello Team:
We are expanding our existing operations at McCain Foods in Othello, making it an exciting time to join our team! McCain Foods spent $300 million in its Othello, Washington facility in May of 2019. This expansion added 170,000 square-feet and brings 180 new jobs to the Othello community. In line with our values and our overall global commitment to sustainability, this investment also brings environmental efficiencies, reducing the facility’s carbon footprint while doubling its production.
McCain offers full benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance
In addition, we offer other benefits including:
- 20 Paid time off days
- 401k – up to 6% matching
- Health Spending Account/ HRA & Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption & Infertility Assistance, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Education Reimbursement Assistance
- Apprenticeship, Internship, & Coop support and opportunities
Sustainability and Planet Friendly Practices are at the heart of McCain:
We’ve embarked upon a journey to create planet-friendly food. We are committed to investing in resource-efficient operations in factories and farms.
- We are moving to 100% renewable energy by 2030.
- Donating 200 million meals to food banks and NGO worldwide by 2025.
- Implementing regenerative agricultural practices across 100% of our potato acreage by 2030.
The Role:
As the Process Control Engineer Manager, you will lead continuous improvement projects within the manufacturing plant. This includes identifying key areas for improvement, assisting in the development of the programs, and the rollout and execution of MDI (McCain Driving Impact) related activities, processes, and plans.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide the leadership and initiative to ensure the successful implementation of MDI. Proactively manage change in a way to help ensure continuous improvement success.
- Learn and develop the key skills required to implement all DMS across the plant. Help create ownership and shared results from process improvements.
- Lead, manage, and coordinate activities including training in various continuous improvement processes, etc. Be a teacher and facilitator of continuous improvement.
- Develop and utilize tools that will maximize the effectiveness of programs and sustain them over time. This includes but is not limited to OSI PI, Defect Logs, Centerlines, CID Routes and other related continuous improvement tools.
- Assemble teams with the right balance and expertise; foster growth of emerging leaders by identifying and coaching team leaders
- Work with the teams to set and achieve stretch goals; encourage calculated risks based on facts
- Support teams to analyze situations and break problems down into manageable parts; consider multiple solutions to a given problem
- Track and report KEY milestones and metrics related to plant goals.
- Ensure processes and practices are in place to identify and share best practices with the plant and across the organization.
- Provide a professional work environment with internal and external customers. Must be able to effectively manage up, down, and across the organization and successfully build collaborative relations across the supply chain.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business or operations management, engineering, or related
- 3 years of management experience with an emphasis on operations and continuous improvement.
- 3 years’ experience with operations (manufacturing, procurement, warehousing, distribution, human resources, engineering, or quality control)
- Able to facilitate the collaborative examination of the possible outcomes of FIT events, focusing on safety, quality and productivity.
- Possess thorough knowledge of plant operations.
- Able to consistently challenge continuous improvement teams to achieve superior results
- Drive engagement through coaching and training
- Be an effective listener
Previous experiences that might be an asset in this role include the following titles: Process Control Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Mechanical Engineer,
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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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