PROJECT ENGINEER

McCormick & Company, Inc. is a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry.  Zatarain's, a leader in New Orleans cuisine - owned by McCormick -.is seeking a full-time Project Engineer reporting to the Engineering & Maintenance Manager. This role will work in Zatarain's Plant, located at 82 1st Street, Gretna, Louisiana.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand."

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

PROJECT ENGINEER

McCormick & Company, Inc. is a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry. Zatarain’s, a leader in New Orleans cuisine – owned by McCormick – is seeking a full-time Project Engineer reporting to the Engineering & Maintenance Manager. This role will work in Zatarain’s Plant, located at 82 1st Street, Gretna, Louisiana.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French’s, Frank’s RedHot, Stubb’s, OLD BAY, Lawry’s, Zatarain’s, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden.

Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our purpose is “To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor” and our vision is “A World United by Flavor”—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand.

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Work with manufacturing and maintenance partners to provide technical support in the design, development, purchase, installation, commissioning, start-up, operation, maintenance and improvement of site facilities, support systems, and packaging equipment as needed. Provide watch dog technical support periodically until improvement results are successfully sustained for a period no less than 90 days. For projects that do not deliver results, significantly refocus efforts to deliver the expected results.
2. Lead and participate in improvement activities: Focused Improvements related to facilities, Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED), packaging systems analysis, spare parts processes to increase reliability and overall systems optimization as needed. Actively participate in daily management activities to improve systems reliability. Attend specific team meetings and daily plant-wide communication meetings to advocate and support manufacturing and business partner results.
3. Prepare final CAAPs in accordance with best practice procedures. Ensure that projects are properly planned to provide sufficient funding, review supporting data to determine that stated results and deliverables are achievable, and secure the necessary approvals. Monitor implementation of capital projects to ensure they are completed as planned and that approved funds are properly spent to deliver the specified IRR % results. Perform post-installation audits, reconcile financial metrics, and share key learnings for future project improvements.
4. Coordinate the selection, design, and layout of site facilities to ensure efficiency, reliability, optimum space utilization, and adequate production capacity. On an ongoing basis, initiate design changes and modifications to further optimize facilities.
5. As needed, support packaging design changes, cost reductions, and expand the capability of existing equipment to efficiently produce new products. Assure that all projects successfully deliver vertical start-ups.
6. Provide technical leadership of cross functional project teams to resolve technical and other challenges that develop during project execution. Seek out opportunities to coach and mentor team members on technical competencies and understanding.
7. Evaluate, develop, document and implement cost reduction projects and deliver on key targets.
8. Work closely with site training, vendors, and operations teams to effectively facilitate training for technicians, managers, mechanics, and other partners. Verify that knowledge is transferred effectively to incumbents and that manufacturing certification processes are validated and robust. Lead project teams from concept through start-up and initial operational phases. Assure that all projects are successfully completed and results are sustained.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• BSc in Engineering – preferably Mechanical, Chemical or Electrical
• Individuals will generally enter this role with a minimum of 3 – 5 years of of technical experience in a multi-disciplinary environment driving improvement in facilities, process, supply chain, packaging, control systems and plant utilities.
• Experience in GMP food manufacturing and packaging machinery.
• Experience and proven success in delivering multiple / simultaneous projects and managing significant cash flow.
• Preferred Certifications: P.E. (Professional Engineer), Radioactive Safety Officer certification.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.