Controls & IT - Regional Digital Project Engineering Role - Multiple Locations

The Controls & IT Regional Digital Project Engineer will be a part of the MW NA Regional Engineering Controls & IT Team. The individual in this role will be responsible for all aspects of planning and executing Digital projects from ideation to project closure. The scope of the role includes leading projects in the areas of Digital Plant Technology systems, which includes electrical, controls, digital, CVS, and value tracking. The role owns the overall leadership of digital projects via the MWC Engineering Execution Standard. This role will be based out of, and/or require travel to most of our major sites across North America (Hackettstown, NJ; Gainesville, GA; Waco, TX, or Topeka, KS).

What are we looking for?

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Digital Technology related fields; an advanced degree is a plus.
• 5-10 years’ experience in a comparable technical position - food, beverage, pharmaceutical or related industry preferable
• Understanding of engineering principals - knowledge of engineering disciplines: Process, Packaging, Electrical, Digital or Computer Services
• Good communication, listening and influencing skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Innovative thinking
• Able to work collaboratively with other groups
• Approximately 20-30% travel requirement depending on project demands

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Develop industry and product specific relevant technical skills
• Develop personal effectiveness and functional interpersonal competencies
• Motivate fellow associates by high quality solutions that protect the integrity of our product
• Provide innovative Engineering solutions that drive a competitive advantage
• Ensure delivery of assigned objectives for scope, time, budget, cash flow, and value creation
• Maintain the project adherence to scope, deliverables, and critical success factors
• Communicate with the digital project steering team to ensure project objectives are achieved
• Seek and apply appropriate technology to gain and sustain technical competitive advantage
• Seek and support lean ways of working and apply lean principles in the engineering process and as a project deliverable
• Understand and make decisions to improve business measurements such as Economic Profit (EP), etc.
• Continuously improve technical knowledge
• Depending on project parameters, personally design systems and select hardware, or direct third-party engineering firms providing design services to meet their contract deliverables
• Continuously improve personal efficiency and performance to provide value added engineering
• Partner with the Value Stream leadership to supervise all commissioning, validation, and start-up activities for digital projects. Additionally, work according to Global CVS best practices, change management processes, and manage the handover process for the project.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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