Project Engineer - Lyons Magnus LLC

Lyons Magnus leads the food industry with creativity and innovation, crafting top-quality products across all manufacturing phases, from raw materials to marketing. With over 2,000 diverse items for industrial ingredient and food service sectors, Lyons caters to leading restaurant chains nationally and internationally.

At Lyons, our diverse and talented staff is the heart of our organization. We foster a thriving work environment where employees are engaged in shaping both the company's and their own future.

The Project Engineer will assist in the development and execution of capital programs and projects for our food & beverage manufacturing headquarters in Walton, KY.

This position is located at our Walton, KY facility

• Identifying and solving issues and managing scope, budget and quality in a proactive, timely manner.
• Works as a team with engineering support to facilitate completion of specific projects.
• Assist in management of scheduling, budgeting, coordinating project objectives within budgetary limits and reporting status.
• Providing process engineering and equipment layout, integration, and specification services for projects which include comparative analysis, technical evaluations and executive summary for senior management.
• Vendor equipment investigation, selection, price negotiation, coordination, and procurement efforts related to projects.
• Contractor scope development, management of contractors and inspection of construction to ensure adherence to company standards for safety, quality and practices.
• Participate in monthly and/or weekly project reviews.
• Analyze and plan for installation of equipment and related construction activities.
• Examines and inspects work progress, equipment and construction sites.
• Assists in project start-up and commissioning of equipment and systems.
• Improve manufacturing line performance, evaluation of performance metrics to understand areas of improvement.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Auto-CAD proficient for 2-D layouts
• Project management experience with small to medium sized projects
• Familiarity with high speed food manufacturing processes related to Chocolate, fruit flavors, drink bases, or confectionary is very desirable.
• Experience with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem solving skills and an aptitude for detail and strong organizational abilities.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills with customers (internal and external) and vendors

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related course study
• Minimum 3-5 years experience (7 + years preferred) in an Engineering role in a Food Manufacturing or related environment.