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Title: Sr Engineer - Advanced Automation Program Leader Location: Kennewick, WA About Lamb Weston We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people. We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow. We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world! Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries. Job Description Summary The Sr. Engineer - Advanced Automation Program Leader will be the primary SME (subject matter expert) for the company's ongoing MPC program, named APQC (Advanced Process Quality Control). Leading the program requires analytical and MPC acumen, as well as production and operations experience, to interface with plant personnel ranging from on-floor operators to upper plant management to ensure reliable and continued utilization of the MPC product. As leader of Lamb Weston's APQC program, a primary responsibility will be to evaluate production and operations systems and processes with a focus on identifying new opportunities to utilize advanced controls technologies to realize increased production efficiencies. Job Description The Sr. Engineer - Advanced Automation Program Leader position provides leadership and support for development and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities using advanced process control solutions, including model predictive control (MPC). The successful applicant will lead research, testing, and deployment initiatives to look "outside the norm" for automation innovations to gain production. Additionally, the selected candidate will be responsible for the preparation of studies, reports, schedules, budgets, inspections, and bid requests, evaluation of bid submittals, direction and coordination of contractors, and project closeouts and analysis. This role serves as a consultant to plant automation initiatives, providing technical information and recommendations that assist with various projects. The job requires excellent production, technical and analytical skills, organizational and communication skills, and will involve travel and on-site time at various plant s. Key focus areas of responsibilities and job activities: * Program leader for Lamb Weston's APQC program. * Oversee deployment of APQC on new processing lines, scope, schedule, and budget management for internal and external resources/vendors. * Drive APQC utilization across the enterprise, including monitoring APQC utilization from line to line and supporting plant and corporate teams in increasing utilization. * Drive ever-increasing returns from our investment in the advanced controls area. * Develop and maintain an advanced automation program structure that outlines and facilitates research and development of new capital projects, as well as support of current advanced automation initiatives and programs. * Work with plant and corporate teams to drive consistency across plants in their execution of APQC automation efficiency projects.