Sr Director Processing Innovation

Title: Sr Director Processing Innovation
Location: Kennewick, WA
About Lamb Weston
We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950s, 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 10,000 team members around the world, its 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 youd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!
Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.
Job Description Summary
This position supports Lamb Westons Journey to Zero by providing clear, concise, and relevant leadership to Lamb Westons technical and Innovation teams. This position demands exceptional management expertise and extensive engineering leadership experience. Expertise in creating a project business case through close cross-functional collaboration promoting a W1N as 1 culture across the organization is a critical expectation of the candidate. Coordinating resources to deliver the business needs, tracking and reporting key project metrics, and growing our people are key deliverables. The work also includes developing technical support strategies, innovation concepts and budgets that meet the needs as defined by Lamb Weston Leadership. Elements to be monitored and managed include technical plant support, innovation strategies to meet business needs, project design, CIR write-ups, preparing and presenting project reviews and presentations, developing contractor bid packages, ove
rseeing project installation, cost tracking, training and startup assistance as well as post project support are normal work activities. The successful applicant will assure delivery of high-quality best in class engineering technical support and innovative solutions. Mentoring of engineering staff is a critical part of this positions responsibilities. Working closely with the various levels of Operations Management, Procurement, EHSS, Food Protection, Marketing, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, Plant Staff, and Production Personnel is critical. This position coordinates activities with LW (Lamb Weston) operations and is based out of our Kennewick, Washington, engineering office.
Job Description
Provide proven leadership to the Global Engineering Technical and Innovation Management staff.
Work closely with Sr Directors in Global Engineering and Operations on LW technical support needs, innovation strategies and implementation of projects.
Collaborates closely with other resources and groups across the platform to ensure technical and innovation strategies reflect overall platform objectives. Works alongside other engineering leadership to help achieve overall platform objectives.
Coordinates with and informs LW operations and related/affected groups regarding strategies, technical and innovation approaches and status.
Accountable for leadership and implementation of the technical discipline of the LW engineering specifications and standards.
Work with Platforms for standardization of equipment, methods, and design through development and governance of standar
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