Plant Engineer II - Le Mars - Wells Enterprises

Description

**Technical Resource for Manufacturing Environment**

This role is responsible for providing direct support to the operations organization in technical and equipment matters.

The primary purpose of this position is to lead and facilitate process and asset related standardization, loss elimination, and risk management.

• **Project Support**: Represents the area of responsibility on capital project teams. Ensures the reliability, operability, and maintainability of new and modified assets. Leads small and low complexity projects for the area of responsibility.
• **Cost Reduction**: Identifies and implements opportunities to reduce cost. Ensures lessons learned and best practices are re-applied from other areas of the plant on the project.
• **Equipment Design and Procurement**: Responsible for equipment design, specification, procurement, installation, and start-up of production floor equipment. Ensures that equipment purchased for the project starts up successfully and performs reliably long term.
• **Problem Solving**: Provides technical support to operations, maintenance, and leadership for problem solving and troubleshooting complex technical issues.
• **Reliability**: Reviews system failures and identifies or facilitates the identification of the failure root cause. Provides analysis and recommendations in regard to asset maintenance decisions.
• **Improvement**: Conducts overall system needs/loss analysis on an on-going basis to help direct focus and allocation of resources. Identifies potential long-term improvements or capital investments that would reduce cost to the business.
• **Capacity Optimization**: Evaluates and optimizes the overall manufacturing base. Identifies means to obtain more output out of existing assets at a lower unit cost.
• **Standardization**: Consistently uses company engineering standards and specifications. Supports standardization through development of new standards where needed and keeps existing standards accurate and up to date.