Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Company: Schreiber Foods
formulation changes and trials and assure standards are met. -- Responsible for supporting and advising coordination of daily production scheduling, provide technical expertise and training for operations; coordinate experimentation and interface with Product Innovation for product development.
--This position is 100% onsite at our Grand Rapids, Michigan production facility. ----What you'll do: Lead waste reduction and process yield optimization projects to reduce operational costs without negatively impacting quality. -- Coordinate process capability analyses with Process Excellence Leaders to identify and establish optimized processing parameter targets and ranges. -- Support and implement
updates to standard work and KPI's to sustain optimization improvements. Develop and control beverage formulations and unit operations that will be most efficient in terms of cost and utilization; control the ingredient usage through the blending system and monitor the on line quality of blends.
-- Develop and implement Partner standard work and associated KPI's to stabilize processing operational activities. -- Identify and implement CP's and QP's and associated process documentation to facilitate consistent quality and cost results. Conceptualize, develop and modify processing activities and unit operations to support new and existing product innovation. -- Analyze process capability
and recommend target and processing specification ranges to R&D for key processing activities and operations.
Support engineering in development of new equipment specifications and sequence of operations. Manage daily and weekly processing operations and review associated KPI's to identify and communicate outages and/or opportunities to ensure product quality and minimized losses. Supervise and train staff to assure accuracy of information in and out on the daily process accountabilities. Assist with maintenance and capability reviews of critical lab instrumentation to ensure consistent quality and cost results Provide technical assistance in terms of data, training and expertise for other departments with special emphasis on SPC, TQA, HACCP, MRP, etc.
-- Train and develop local and remote Leaders and hourly Partners on key processing unit operations including, but not limited to, centrifugal separation, blending, homogenization, sterilization, and formulations. -- Training to include unit operation capability, as well as dairy chemistry, plant base formulations, nutritional beverage formulations and internal/external resource references. Assist and review of the Standard Cost System associated with processing unit operations and activities.
--Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety, Food Quality, and Sanitation Plans, in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met, and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures. Lead preparation for and execution of plant trials and initial product launch production run.
-- Including coordination meetings prior to the trial, update of any processes and procedures, alignment of resources to support the trial, and coordination of trial sampling plan. Participate in regularly scheduled production and improvement meetings with customers. Participate in all plant food safety, quality and partner safety initiatives to drive progress forward on these topics with the leadership team. Learn and utilize Schreiber computer systems: -- Optiva, Recipe Manager, Ignition, Factory Talk, APS--What you need to succeed: Bachelor degree in Food/Dairy Science, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain or related field or equivalent work experience5-7 years of Manufacturing, Research experience1 - 3 Years as Formulations Team Advisor, Beverage Production Supervisor, Research Scientist or similar external position Computer skills necessary to understand, train, and lead the essential functions of the Formulations position Basic understanding of food chemistry typically obtained through a 4 year degree within the sciences Ability to travel 15% (within and outside of the US)Advanced understanding of manufacturing processes Basic understanding of Lean and Six Sigma concepts Good cross functional communication skills with people of different levels of technical knowledge
be responsible for implementing micro-controller code, test fixture code, and prototyping concepts. This position is the focal point for hardware and software integration, requiring a self-driven engineer with great initiative. Primary responsibilities and Essential Job Functions: Embedded software/firmware design and implementation.
Test software development and implementation. Design, develop, test and integrate hardware and software control functionality using micro-controllers. Interface with customer mechanical, EE, SW and other teams working on projects. Must be a team player with excellent customer communication, negotiation, and presentation skills. Must be able to lead a technical
project and work independently. REQUIRED Knowledge / Skills / Competencies: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (BSEE, BSCE) from a four-year college or university or above/ equivalent education or experience.
2+ years related experience as a Software Engineer performing duties similar to the essential functions of this job description. Internships will be considered. Excellent programming skills and knowledge of C. Experience with Microchip, TI, ARM based micro-controllers. Experience working with new peripherals, features, and development environments. Experience with Ethernet, TCP/IP and web-based applications. Ability to read PCB schematics, use an
oscilloscope and logic analyzer. PREFERRED Skills: Experience with python, C++, C#.
Experience with MS Visual Studio. ABOUT USSimms Electronics Inc. is an electronic engineering firm located in Grand Rapids, Michigan that offers a broad range of services including embedded hardware and firmware development, electronic engineering, cloud and data services for embedded systems, and PCB design services. Since our inception, we have created hundreds of market-ready products that are in use across the country and around the world. Our design team has worked in numerous industries including Io T, industrial, automotive, and medical. We differentiate from other design houses because we are able to take a product from the concept phase through the manufacturing process.
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The company is driven by its values of caring for people, the animals that supply us with milk, and the planet. By providing nourishing products, implementing stringent care standards for animals, and stewarding efficient operations and responsible packaging, fairlife, LLC puts a focus each day on making a positive impact for all. -- To learn more about fairlife and its complete
line of products, please visit. job purpose: The Software Developer will support fairlife's ambition of building a best-in-class Data and Decision Intelligence (DDI) ecosystem.
This person will play a lead role on our dev team; creating custom software applications and systems to support critical business functions. -- The Software Developer will be required to analyze specifications, build efficient applications, conduct quality testing, and enhance the user interface, and communicate and drive a common vision, practices and capabilities on the development team. responsibilities: Take ownership of development lifecycle and releases from dev to production utilizing agile development methodologies.
Cultivate a strong technical culture through experience sharing, professional development, and mentorship.
Write clean, logical, high-quality code and adopt agile-driven development. Stay up to date on new technologies and approaches to software development. Work closely with data team ensuring optimal data structures are leveraged to support the applications. Work on custom software products leveraging many languages, frameworks, and platforms. --Get up to speed on existing projects' domains, technology stack, and platforms. Participate in the Agile project flow providing solutions and feedback. Work with key stakeholders to clearly define requirements and prioritize project work.
--Work with teammates to migrate legacy applications to new tech stack. Contribute to project documentation as needed skills/qualifications required: 4+ years experience working as a professional software developer Familiar with several programming languages, including in-depth experience with at least one. Excellent communication and documentation skills to effectively gather dev requirements Detail oriented, Self-starter with a growth mindset and a passion for creating Value general versatility and flexibility over focused specialization. Ability to handle ambiguity and work in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment Experience writing software in either web, mobile, or embedded.
Values human-centered design in the product development lifecycle. Effectively communicate technical concepts to team members with varying levels of experience. Experience in full stack development Track record of developing software applications leveraging automated testing Comfortable with pair programming and other Extreme Programming practicesposition location: Coopersville, MI (Grand Rapids, MI)reports to: Sr. Director, Data & Decision Intelligence travel requirements: --5-10%exempt/nonexempt: exemptfairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, interaction, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, interactionual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors. In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company.
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