Engineer, Project

CTI Foods Overview

Welcome to CTI Foods, where quality, service, and people are at the heart of everything we do. We are a leading food manufacturing company, dedicated to providing our customers with the best possible products and our employees with a rewarding career.

At CTI, we passionately believe that people are our #1 ingredient. We provide a positive and supportive work environment, opportunities for growth and advancement, and a competitive compensation package. We value our employees' contributions and strive to create a culture of respect, teamwork, and excellence.

Whether you're interested in a career in production, quality control, or management, we have a variety of opportunities available. We believe that our success is a result of our focus on quality, service, and people, and we look forward to continuing to serve our customers and employees with excellence.

If you're looking for a rewarding career in the food manufacturing industry, look no further than CTI Foods! Join our team and become a part of a company that values quality, service, and people.

The Project Engineer will support all facilities across CTI Foods. The Engineer will be executing and managing capital projects, assisting with maintenance activities and environmental/regulatory programs as related to food manufacturing for fresh, cooked, and ready to eat applications. The Engineer will travel to company facilities as assignments dictate. Travel is ~30% or as needed to support projects. Home office to be based in Owingsville, KY or Saginaw, TX – TBD.

This role will work closely with all levels of the plant facilities and members of the Engineering team.

• Hands-on participation in new product development and engineering improvements to current processes, including cost-reduction, manufacturability, functionality, and quality.
• Prepare complete sets of drawings that involve general layout concepts in multiple views and work with others to provide detail drawings and assembly drawings of equipment, facilities or systems for use in design and implementation of industrial manufacturing processes.
• Prepare or involve qualified outside resources to provide manufacturing calculations including energy balances, mass balances, equipment sizing calculations, etc. as applicable.
• Oversight and/or design and implementation of industrial control and automation systems.
• Provide technical and engineering support to all departments.
• Research and contact vendors for outsourced materials and equipment.
• Create and update engineering information documents.
• Track and help push new technologies as applicable to plant processes.
• Interact with regulatory agencies and internal management relative to ammonia refrigeration systems, wastewater, air, stormwater, hazardous/non-hazardous waste permits and chemical spill prevention and management.
• Apply knowledge of process optimization and root cause analyses to project implementations and maintenance activity as needed.
• Demonstrate/apply Lean tools, statistical analysis, TQM principles, value stream mapping, push/pull strategies, statistical process control, monitor for nonconformance trends and deviations, KPIs and RCA.
• Support the Capital program for productivity improvements by ensuring scope and implementation align with standard processes.
• Must be willing to travel extensively to effectively conduct job duties and achieve goals and objectives.
• Any other duties as assigned.

What we need from you:

• Lean Manufacturing Engineering experience in a food processing environment is preferred. Certifications in Continuous Improvement a plus. Must be willing to train and learn Lean processes and Reliability Maintenance.
• BS in an engineering discipline with minimum of 2 years working in the food manufacturing industry doing maintenance and/or engineering functions preferred.
• Experience in process design and equipment layout, including developing concepts from sketches and editing and creating multi-view drawings and subassemblies using AutoCAD software.
• Experience and/or ability to manage regulatory programs for environmental compliance.
• Basic knowledge of industrial electrical…