Engineering Manager – Transportation and Warehousing

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $109k - $159k / year

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Conagra Brands

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1919

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Conagra Brands is a major packaged foods company that develops, manufactures, and markets a wide portfolio of consumer food brands, including frozen meals, snacks, baking mixes, and other grocery products. The company operates production plants across the U. S. (and internationally), manages more than 100 brands, and emphasizes product development, manufacturing, and consumer-facing packaged goods.

📋 Description

• Manage engineering projects across distribution centers and plant-based warehouses • Develop warehouse process and infrastructure improvement strategies to maximize asset effectiveness • Provide enterprise ownership and execution leadership for powered industrial equipment (PIT) and industrial racking systems • Partner closely with automation and operations teams • Serve as a subject matter expert in material handling equipment (MHE), industrial racking systems, warehouse automation, and warehouse facility design • Oversee warehouse operating budgets and evaluate capital investment tradeoffs • Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their applicability across the distribution network • Develop equipment specifications and standards to support modern warehousing concepts • Build strong relationships with strategic suppliers • Work cross-functionally with Transportation and Warehouse Operations, Manufacturing Platform teams, and Finance • Lead capital planning and execution for powered industrial equipment (PIT) and racking projects

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Logistics Management, or a related engineering field. • Minimum of seven years of industrial engineering or logistics and distribution engineering experience. • Extensive experience with warehouse infrastructure and building systems, including material handling equipment (MHE), racking, dock equipment, and drop lots. • Experience developing and delivering programs from concept through execution. • Experience with material handling automation technologies such as automated guided vehicles (AGVs), automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), and conveyor systems. • Experience influencing outcomes in cross‑functional teams and third‑party relationships without direct reporting authority. • Strong presentation and communication skills, including communicating analyses and recommendations to senior leadership. • Experience driving programs and initiatives in matrixed organizations. • Experience building strong internal and external relationships and holding individuals and vendors accountable. • Background in inventory management, warehouse operations, or related supply chain functions that interface closely with distribution operations. • Project management experience for capital projects up to five million dollars. • Solid understanding of distribution operations and end‑to‑end supply chain management.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities