2022 North America Graduate - Engineering
How often can you find a multi-billion-dollar company that offers you flexibility to change in your career as your interests change? You just did. Kerry's unique culture and commitment to change in the food, beverage, and pharma industries offers support and opportunities as your interests and need to explore grow. If fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and global opportunities appeal to you, then introduce yourself!
About Kerry
A career with Kerry Taste & Nutrition offers you an opportunity to shape how people across the globe view food and beverage while providing you opportunities to explore and grow as your interests do. With our commitment to a sustainable future, a career with Kerry is something you can feel good about.
About the role
Help the Future Taste Great. At Kerry we’re obsessed with food and with an ambition to provide 2 billion people access to more sustainable nutrition, this isn’t a ‘typical’ graduate program. But then, you’re not a typical graduate. If you’re looking for responsibility and exposure to meaningful projects around the world and if you have an open and flexible approach, then a career at Kerry could be right for you. The world wants more nutritious, tastier, sustainably produced food. If you want to help solve the food challenges of our time, apply now.
We are looking for energetic, mobile, career minded and ambitious Early Career\Graduates candidates to join Kerry. Joining Kerry gives you an opportunity to continue developing and learning with our graduate development program, as well an opportunity to work on a cross-functional business project. Kerry has had success with graduates that have joined the organization and have accelerated and progressed their careers.
Average program length is two years. After that you'll be placed into a role outside of the grad program.
We have two starting locations available for our Engineering Grads. Please apply if you’re interested in any of the below locations!
- Beloit, WI (NA Headquarters)
- Remote
Key responsibilities
Our North American engineering teams are excited to onboard four new grads in 2022 across the following teams:
- Maintenance Reliability (Remote) 50% Travel
- Maintenance and Facilities (Based in Beloit, WI) 30% Travel
- Project Engineer (Remote) 50% Travel
Maintenance Reliability Engineer
- Supports manufacturing sites in developing, implementing and improving Predictive Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programs to minimize losses, achieve "zero" breakdowns, and extend machine life-cycle at the optimal maintenance costs.
- Participate in capital projects at manufacturing sites, from inception to ”business as usual” final operation. including project planning, estimating, reporting, organizing project staff, coordinating, scheduling, installation, commissioning, qualification, start-up and financial control
- Analyze and evaluate project designs and ensure compliance with front end engineering principles and company standards including sanitary design, and health, safety, and environmental standards
Project Engineer
- Directly participates in the design, development and creation of scope for engineering projects or the engineering work of the department.
- Creates project estimates and timelines for initial project consideration.
- Assists in directing the installation, commissioning, qualification and verification for certain engineering capital projects
Maintenance and Facilities
- Support the management and execution of maintenance activities for the R&D pilot plant.
- Participate in capital projects, from inception to ”business as usual” final operation. including project planning, estimating, reporting, organizing project staff, coordinating, scheduling, installation, commissioning, qualification, start-up and financial control
- Analyze and evaluate project designs and ensure compliance with front end engineering principles and company standards including sanitary design, and health, safety, and environmental standards
- Participates in developing, implementing and improving Predictive Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programs to minimize losses, achieve "zero" breakdowns, and extend machine life-cycle at the optimal maintenance costs.
- Supports site with improving Maintenance work processes and building capability in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
- Support facilities team in selection and management of third party contractors supporting the operation.
- Supports facilities team in analyzing KPI and operational data to eliminate losses, optimize asset life-cycles and maximize operational efficiencies
Qualifications and skills
- Bachelors in Mechanical, Civil, Industrial or equivalent engineering degree.
- Preferred background in Food & Beverage / Chemicals / Pharma
- Demonstrated knowledge and capability in statistical analysis tools and methodology
- Must be comfortable with 30% - 50% travel between our plants in the US and Canada
- Knowledge of SAP preferred
- Strong problem solving and organizational skills.
- Versed in project schedules, cost estimates, PFDs, P&IDs, site and elevation drawings, utilities requirements development, interpretation of P&IDs, with a good understanding of process and instrumentation control.
- 3.0 + GPA
- Recent Graduate (latest December of 2019)
Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. EEO is the Law poster can be found here. Additional information can also be here.