Manager Plant Engineering

Title: Manager Plant Engineering

Location: Warden, WA

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

Responsible for the successful management of the Engineering & Maintenance departments including capital projects, continuous improvement analysis, implementation of improvements within project parameters, effective collaboration with other functions to achieve overall business results and development of direct reports

Job Description

• Execute plant-specific vision and mission to assure continuous improvement and alignment with corporate vision.
• Ensure that all manufacturing/facility systems are properly resourced and that all resources are efficiently utilized.
• Direct assigned supervisors and hourly maintenance associates in their roles and responsibilities to meet plant objectives in safety, quality, cost, and customer service.
• Provide technical support for efficient troubleshooting/problem solving activities and maintenance repair to maximize efficiencies and limit downtime.
• Continuously apply sound engineering solutions to resolve hindrances to plant efficiencies and to drive continuous improvement.
• Provide support in implementing/maintaining preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Manage engineering department costs within budgetary guidelines.
• Manage the buildings and grounds such that good manufacturing practices (GMP) are adhered to.
• Perform follow-up analysis to identify and resolve recurring operational issues.
• Schedule mandatory inspections and coordinate certifications with appropriate authorities.
• Ensure environmental compliance.
• Drive employee engagement, training, and development to maximize manufacturing, quality, safety, and productivity goal attainment.
• Effectively communicate results and action plans to appropriate employees and managers.
• Collaborate directly with human resources to ensure employee issues or concerns are correctly addressed and resolved.
• Collaborate with finance to create and execute a maintenance and capital budget to ensure that financial allocations and obligations are set, administered and met.
• Implementation of the capital program.
• Initiate cost savings measures.
• Develop and manage long term (3-year) and short term (current FY) term capital plan.
• Ensure all plant engineering operations are conducted in a safe and controlled environment.
• Ensure all quality and regulatory standards, specifications and policies are met or exceeded.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• 7-10 Years engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• 3-5 Years Supervisory/Project Management experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Strong computer application skills, including the utilization of network and PC business application software, CAD
• Strong mathematical and statistical skills
• Basic financial skills and understanding

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Job Requisition ID: Req-257380

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 06/08/2025

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate’s work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $123,900.00 - $185,830.00

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law