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JOB DESCRIPTION:   

The Plant Engineering Specialist will support programming, testing, and analysis duties and tasks for basic applications. He/She performs tasks within planned durations to meet established deadlines. The selected candidate collaborates with teams to ensure effective communications and to support the achievement of objectives. This position provides support for applications and business functions.

The Plant Engineering Specialist contributes to the identification and reporting of defects in work products and assists with documentation (e.g., requirements, test and defect data, variances, problem resolution, etc.). He/she performs activities of lower complexity under close supervision.

Management skills are required for this position and include time and project management, developing and maintaining inter-department and cross functional relationships, communication (both written and verbal), and continued development of personal programming knowledge.

Other Duties

• Analyzes Industrial Engineering data to understand the parameters of projects and the business need for developing, expanding, or retrofitting conveyor systems.
• Assists Project Engineers in presenting design alternatives to the PE Feasibility Committee for their feedback and approval of options.
• Generates a set of feasibility drawings for each proposed solution to distribute to region/district stakeholders for their feedback and selection of appropriate conveyor systems.
• Generates feasibility cost estimates for each proposed solution to assist region/district stakeholders in their selection of appropriate conveyor systems.
• Reviews feasibility cost estimates with Project Engineers to elicit recommendations for making the designs more cost effective.
• Generates cost estimates of the final conveyor drawings to assist region/district stakeholders in requesting the allocation of resources from Corporate.
• Scans approved project drawings into a PDF format for distribution to the regions/districts, Corporate Coordinators, vendors, and other PE departments.
• Archives approved project documents to assist in the design process of future projects and for use in responding to questions that may arise.

Preferred Competencies

• Facility Design: Identifies problems or inefficiencies with current buildings or plants; modifies or adjusts existing facility blueprints to resolve recurring building or plant failures; recommends new facility design specifications.
• Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Knowledge: Demonstrates a basic understanding of the functions, regulations, and procedures of compliance agencies or governing bodies; takes a leadership position in programs that reduce risk and enhance safety.
• Project Management: Demonstrates an understanding of implementation objectives, project plan, and one's role within a project; participates in the implementation of a project; provides timely, thorough, and concise updates for area of responsibility; identifies areas of risk and properly communicates them to the project manager.
• Solicits and Gathers Information: Demonstrates a general knowledge of techniques for soliciting and gathering information.
• Technical Writing: Demonstrates a general understanding and use of grammatical rules; expresses ideas clearly and concisely; explains the relationship of effective writing to business objectives.
• Technology Implementation: Able to communicate designed and developed technology solutions and their desired outcome in general terms; expresses the importance of an effective implementation; develops implementation plans.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree – Mechanical Engineering – Preferred
• Experience with 3D software – Preferred
• Experience using Navisworks Manage – Preferred

Founded on a $100 loan in 1907, 2 teenage boys opened up a messenger service in a 6 by 17 foot office located just below the sidewalk on Second Avenue and Main Street in Seattle, WA. Messengers ran errands, carried notes, hand baggage, and delivered trays of food for customers. They also delivered packages, traveling by streetcars and bicycles for longer trips, and later using motorcycles.