Lactalis North America is currently seeking candidates to join our Engineering team in Nampa, ID.

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirt, hands-on responsibility and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

Lactalis North America: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.

From your PASSION to ours
This position reports to the Project Engineer Manager and is responsible for evaluating, planning, justifying, coordinating, and following up on projects that focus on production growth and/or projects that optimize existing production and packaging lines.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• This position is responsible for evaluating, planning, justifying, coordinating, and following up on projects that focus on production growth and/or projects that optimize existing production and packaging lines.
• This includes developing project costing for budget review and approval, prepare P&ID, layout, production time schedule, technical description, function description, value calculations, and selecting appropriate bids, equipment, vendors, and sub-contractors.
• Other responsibilities include ensuring activities and projects are started and completed within the set timetable, maintaining accurate and up to date project files and drawings, and identifying and correcting safety, ergonomic, and operational problems through proper design of equipment.
• Other duties include promoting inter-plant communication and providing technical support on an as-needed basis, developing and distributing a monthly progress and project status report, following up with facility team leaders on continuous cost reduction/process improvement ideas, and performing other responsibilities as the need arises.

The ideal candidate will be proactive and dynamic, flexible and receptive to new ideas, down to earth and pragmatic, analytical driver and attentive to detail. He or she will also be capable of working independently in adherence to regulations, of managing stress and remaining calm under pressure. Will demonstrate an inquiring mind and well-developed observational skill. Will demonstrate a sense of responsibility and high professional standard, honesty, integrity, and objectivity. Possess values of ambition and engagement, with simplicity.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education

• Requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Engineering degree with focus on mechanical or electronics preferred.

Experience:

• From 3 to 5 years of experience.
• Food Industry experience desired
• Dairy (Cheese) processing experience preferred
• Packaging related experience preferred

Specialized Knowledge

• Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Rockwell software’s.

Skills/Abilities

• Requires intermediate computer skills. For example, using Microsoft Office and Autocad to present all documents related to any projects.