Job Function:

Chemical engineering involves professional work in design, operation, evaluation and improvement of processes pertaining to bio-fuel plants, equipment or methods. It requires knowledge of the principles and practices of chemical engineering, chemistry and other scientific and engineering disciplines. Responsible for organizing highly complex activities for the design, implementation, and maintenance of bio fuel plant projects.

Essential Functions:

1. Develop, evaluate, and improve processing methods.
2. Assist in proposals and business development visits.
3. Oversee process optimization.
4. Frequent travel within the U.S.
5. Work with calculations and Scope of work
6. Familiar with plant design work.
7. Oversee special projects requested by management and review report before issue.
8. Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills Abilities:

1. Ability to present complicated information to individuals and in a group setting.
2. Must be flexible to respond to sudden requests and unexpected assignments.
3. Able to work in both work site and office environment.
4. Able to work independently and meet deadlines.
5. Get along well in a team environment.
6. Must be detailed oriented.
7. Ability to identify, analyze, and apply engineering principals to solve industrial processing problems.
8. Ability to define, coordinate and implement mechanical designs.
9. Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with clients, vendors and co-workers.
10. Computer literate in common desktop applications and engineering calculations.

Company Information:

Our client Company, located in Central Arkansas, is a leader in consulting engineering, process design and installation. The company was established in 1999 to provide technical consulting services to the food processing industry. The principals have a combined experience of over 50 years in the industry, specializing in rice, soybean vegetable oil processing, and more recently, the biofuel industry.

Position Overview:

The Office Manager/Bookkeeper will be responsible for managing all office and bookkeeping functions including office accounting, payroll, AR, AP.

Responsibilities:

• Calendar management
• Travel Management, domestic and international
• Expense tracking and reimbursement
• Payroll
• Accounting/Bookkeeping

Build Bio-Diesel Plants in Central Shop with 50 employees, responsible for Shop Productivity , QC, Safey

Company:

This is a new, 50MM gallon Ethanol plant located in Southern Minnesota. The plant started operation in 2007 and was designed for expansion to 100MM gallon capacity.

Job Overview:

Manage all operations of a 50MM gallon, ICM designed, ethanol facility. The perfect candidate would be a Chemical Engineer with five years of Ethanol experience. Additional years of Ethanol experience will be considered in place of a BS degree.

Position Overview:

Manage all operations of a 30MM gallon ethanol facility. The perfect candidate would have a degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering with five years experience in chemical processing or related industries.  

Responsibilities:

• Oversee administration, operations, maintenance, quality, safety, environmental, and logistics functions at the plant level.
• Deliver customer-acceptable products by enforcing quality standards; maintaining GMP’s.
• Plan operations by collecting relevant information; identifying short-term and long-term issues; identifying and evaluating options; choosing a course of action.
• Keep materials available by scheduling, monitoring, and adjusting delivers.

Provides leadership to plant employee.

Assist Plt Mgnt in budgets,PM & Operations of a soybean extraction plant.

Company Information:

Our client Company, located in St. Louis, MO, is a global leader in the manufacture and sales of feed ingredients. They are privately held company with sales approaching one billion dollars. They employee over 400 people and have 10 manufacturing facilities.

Position Overview:

This role manages manufacturing planning (MRP), distribution planning (DRP), sales forecasting of products produced by the client company. This role will also define the systems and business processes to be used for these activities with the new ERP system (either SAP or Oracle). This role manages global inventory considering required customer service levels, forecast accuracy, production plans, plant or supplier capacity, lead-times and financial constraints to make certain the forecasted business needs are met by manufactured and purchased products. This role is also responsible for the design and implementation of a global inventory tracking system (barcode or RFID) project for packaged goods inventory tracking.

Responsibilities:

• Manage global forecasting by SKU process to ensure accurate, timely forecasts, by SKU, are created and disseminated throughout the organization
• Manage the manufacturing and procurement planning process to ensure appropriate levels of inventory of all products are maintained.
• Develop measurement to determine accuracy of forecasting, demand planning, and fulfillment
• Design and implement a global inventory tracking system for packaged goods.
• Ensure the execution and continuous improvement of logistics process.

Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Operations Management or related field
• Minimum five years of operations management experience
• APICS Certification preferred
• Familiarity with DRP/MRP business systems
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Project Management, Planning and Execution skills
• Ability to multitask on multiple complex projects and processes

Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Excellent Benefits equal to Fortune 500 companies
• Company bonus plan
• Relocation

POSITION SUMMARY:

• Provides support for technical analysis, evaluation, recommendation, implementation of packaging materials design and configuration.
• Provide support to the manufacturing facilities for packaging performance including documentation, communication, analysis, trouble shooting, and follow up.
• Provides support for the identification, evaluation, simplification, and implementation of packaging innovation related to cost, performance, functionality, and design.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES:

• Provide technical analysis to assist the company in simplification and sustainability initiatives.
• Technical analysis supporting optimal manufacturing efficiencies and procurement cost objectives
• Lead technical education efforts for packaging machine operators to efficiently identify and resolve packaging related inefficiencies
• Assist in design, development, documenting and implementation of basic and unique packaging systems including all primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging designs. •
• Assist with developing packaging and structures for manufacturability, printability, machine-ability, cost effectiveness and consumer acceptability. •
• Participate in cross-functional project teams to define product/packaging requirements.
• Assist with creating new packaging solutions for food products. Work with both package and filling line solutions.
• Develop specifications for various materials and package formats.
• Conduct package material technical testing packaging.
• Consults with and provides technical assistance to Marketing, R&D, Operations Development, Manufacturing, Engineering, Sales and Purchasing as requested.

Company Information:

Our client Company, located in Southern Louisiana, is one of the four largest grain exporters in the United States.

Position Overview:

The Pellet Mill Manager will be responsible for all operations at  a medium sized mill (4 - 6 employees) that pelletizes grain dust for sale as feed. The plant volume is based on corn exports and averages 30,000 to 40,000 tons per year. The perfect candidate will have an operations background, but will also need to be able to deal with customers, and have at least a basic knowledge of grain merchandising. He or she will also need to have a basic knowledge of forecasting, simple P & L's and budgets. Maintenance and repair skills would also be a plus.

Responsibilities:

Run a brand new Grain Processing Plant that is operating well and is expandable.

Can lead shortly to President

Work under the tutledge of the Exec VP Commodites directing up to 35 merchants and develop in to the Successor. doing domestic and international marketing of rendered products from 44 facilities thru the US

Chief Technology Officer

Reporting to the CEO

Responsible for the development of a business plan to ensure corporate goals and objectives are met.  Provides technical guidance for the development of a short and long term business plans to provide technical solutions to expand market penetration and capture rates for carbon credits.  Evaluates potential acquisitions or partnering arrangements with technology providers.  Makes recommendations regarding enhancements to current technology and new technology as necessary.  Hires, coaches, counsels, evaluates and terminates staff as necessary.   

To be 1 of 2 Techs to Maintain the Seimans DCS Control System utilizing Profibus in a 40 Million Gallon Ethanol Plant with typical flowmeters, level transmitters and other instrumentation

Sell Corn, Soya and Alfalfa Seed thru Iowa and Nebraska - traveling and covering as much area as Salesman desires.

More travel -  more Sales